I am a Catholic man...?

Question

...who sins every day, but I repent my sins every sunday, and seek forgiveness from God.

Am I a better person than he who lives his life without sin (in His eyes) but doesnt believe in a god?

Answer 1

Were all in the same boat down here!

Answer 2

Gotta clear up a little point here:

No one on this planet lives without sin. No one. If you could show me one person who did not have sin, you would be showing me someone perfect. Sorry, doesn't exist.

The only people to walk the earth without sin after Adam and Eve were Mary, the Mother of God, and Jesus Christ, our Lord and Redeemer.

I will say God bless you for seeking God's forgiveness and mercy. We are called to live our faith each and every day, and it takes repentance and faith to do that. Keep up the good work.

God bless.

Answer 3

You strike me as being somewhat of a hypocrite. You sin every day and go running to god to get forgiven and then go right back out and sin again. A better person? No, you delude yourself.....no one is a better person....all are equal in the sight of god, so stop running back and asking for forgiveness for every time you think or believe you have sinned....that is the actions of an insure and confused man.

Answer 4

Not if you continue to willfully sin thinking that, "I'll just go ahead and satiate the lust of my flesh and make an act of contrition on Sunday and all will be well."

We must firmly resolve, with the help of His grace, to not only confess our sin, but to sincerely repent and make an honest effort to amend our lives by avoiding those things that drive us back into whatever our particular sin might be. Otherwise, our reception at Holy Communion of the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ becomes a condemnation to punishment upon us.

Answer 5

As a Catholic man and a Bible believer, no one can say that any man is "better" than another. St. Paul is very clear about that in his letters in the Bible. Only God can judge whether someone is "better" than someone else.

You are not really asking, are you, if a man is not conciously aware of sinning that he might be a better person than someone who realises his sin? I know that the Church teaches that for a person to commit mortal sin that the person must be aware that it is a mortal sin.

What is at issue there is not whether someone is better than someone else, but whether a person lost his "state of grace" when he committed that sin.


I wonder if you have the idea that many people have (that I fall into often), that good people go to Heaven and that bad people go to Hell. The Catholic Church does not teach that and neither does the Bible.

The person who is forgiven his sins goes to Heaven and the person who is not forgiven MAYBE will go to Hell. There are criteria in the Bible and in the teachings of the Catholic Church that are required to be met in order for our sins to be forgiven. We are all sinners and forgiveness is possible for all of us.

We must become aware of our sins, we must feel sorry that we committed them, and we must make an honest attempt to stop commiting them, and we must ask for forgiveness. All of these together constitutes "repentence".

For those of us who are Catholics, if we commit a mortal sin, we must ALSO participate in the Sacrament of Confession (now called the Sacrament of Reconcilliation),

God bless you.

Answer 6

No body is without sin,all people sin I don't care how they live or where.That is human nature.Confessing your sins every Sunday is a good thing,but if you go back after confession and continue the same actions then the confession was worthless.Confess then don't do those things anymore,at least try to stop.The man who believes not in God, is a fool.

Answer 7

Why do you sin every day? There isn't any reason for that. You're not making very good use of your own free will, I guess.

You aren't a better person if you aren't attempting to change that, and move to a higher spiritual level from whatever level you're on now, recognising whatever it was you did yesterday that you consider a sin, and then just plain not doing it anymore.

You're just the same person as you were yesterday, otherwise.

Answer 8

I am an Athiest, but I'm more than familiar with the Decalogue, and I've never broken a commandment. I don't think a sinner who seeks absolution, and later continues to sin as before, is holier than someone like me.

Answer 9

to a guy who posted above me, being aethist does not make you a better person, thats moronic. I think you will find that people of religion have a stronger moral code than most aethists. Yes we don't always live up to it but we try.

As for the question above, I struggle with that question all the time, to me, its the old comparison, a killer turned Christian vs someone like Ghandi. My faith tells me its the Christian, but my own heart and mind tell me its Ghandi whos the better person. I refuse to believe that God would be cold enough to turn away Ghandi yet accept a mass murderer into his arms.

Answer 10

No. What you are asking comes down to:

What makes a person "better", how they feel and think or what they do?

To think that your feelings, which only you can know, are more important than your actions, which affect the rest of the world, is very narcissistic.

Whether you are "better" than someone else is not a function of your beliefs and feelings, but your actions vs theirs. You can repent all day long, but if they commit an act of compassion and you dont. They win the good person contest, hands down.

Answer 11

No, whats the point of repenting on a Sunday if your just gonna sin again on a Monday....