another person on this forum said
"does it matter if we forgive you. You didn't sin against me. You sinned against God. And he WILL forgive and save you."
so why bother with the bowing, and the praising and the wasted time on sunday, when you can die, meet him, and go "well I was just doing what I thought was best for me, sorry if I offended you" and he goes, "yeah dude, it's cool, welcome to my pad"
2007-10-04 02:11:29 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
so basically what most of you are saying is that i have to ask for forgiveness *before* i die...
What if you do something wrong right before you die, and you would have asked for forgiveness, but then you didn't have time before your life ended?
and when does "death" occour? when you stop breathing, when your brain stops functioning, when all your cells stop working? when?
2007-10-04 02:26:26 · update #1
If the myth were correct, a deity who is loving and forgiving would not condemn his creation to Hell for eternity.
To be judgemental would mean it was an individual, not the 'oneness of everything'. As far as human interpretation goes, the same being can not be two seperate things AT THE SAME TIME (forgiving & judgmental, loving & hateful).
The only purpose to deluding yourself with this fantasy is b/c the person wants or needs a more complex being with more control and, for whatever reason, they deny other spiritual ideas (like gaurdian gods/goddesses, the Wicca god & goddess, Jewish or Islamic religion, Buddhist or Hindu philosophy, etc).
2007-10-04 08:19:28 · answer #1 · answered by strpenta 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death occurs when your spirit returns to God who gave it.
God forgives those who believe in His Son Jesus who was crucified, buried and resurrected so they could be saved from eternal death in hell. The wages of sin is death, but Jesus took away the sins of the world if we believe on Him.
We can't reject Jesus and what He did on the cross and receive eternal life with God. God set the rules.
And read the Bible and take the Bible literally and infallible. Yes, the infallible Word of the Living God. Forget evolution and all of its garbage. Everything was created in 6 literal days. The evening and the morning were the first day - yes, 6 literal days. God doesn't have a problem will explaining a 24 hour day, not in Genesis or any where else in the Bible. Darwin's lies were believed and people started continually lying about evolution and when the truth was found out, the truth wasn't made known and the lies continued. Evolution has lied more to the public than it has ever told the truth. Evolution is a dead dog. The fossils are not proof of millions and billions of years, but they are a proof of a global flood as the Bible declares and as history of every nation has mention. Yes, every nation has some kind of story about the global flood. Look at Mount Helens after the eruption where thousands of layers of sediment were layed down quickly.
Millions and billions of years makes me sick to my stomach.
This is a young earth and science proves a young earth. Evolution proves nothing. The Bible is the infallible Word of God. The Bible can be trusted. It is the Christians who have fallen short of God's Word and not God's Word falling short. The Christians tried to fit millions and billions of years and the falsehood of evolution into the Bible, God's Word, and it doesn't fit. The earth and universe were created in 6 days. Six literal days of 24 hours. Our week and our days come from the Word of God. Everything in that Bible means something. Don't change a word of it ever to fit man. Changing God's Word to fit man is like exchanging an ounce of gold for an ounce of cow manure. The Bible is the infallible Word of the Living God and God is more than able to make sure that His Bible stays accurate. Trust the Word of God.
2007-10-04 02:34:20 · answer #2 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Magley64 was sad because i chose not to argue when he used my quote.
God will forgive any sin. To him all sin is the same.
Sin does not send you to hell. Rejecting Jesus sends you to hell
You are guilty because of your sin and he paid for it.
If i bought you a present and shipped it to you and you refused the shipment does it make it less of a gift. My payment stands, you chose not to receive what i offered for free.
Jesus paid for all of your sin on the cross, past, present and future.
He is the one that keeps you saved by his blood so nothing you can do can make you lose it. You are trusting in him not your work.
I pray to him because i want to talk to my friend and Savior. I worship him because he is worthy and has proven it in my life.
If i sin on this world i lose rewards here and rewards in heaven. If i sin here i will reap what i sow. Gal 6:7-8
He loves us and never will leave us.
Yes he will forgive you if you repent at the last second.
Too bad no one knows when that last second is. might be a massive heart attack not giving you time to repent. Is it worth that risk?
2007-10-04 05:43:18 · answer #3 · answered by jesussaves 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well god forgives everyone however bad your sins
by converting the punishment that he gives before forgiving all sins reduces. So if you think that god is just going to forgive you without any questioning then you are mistaken.
some people those call themselves believers in all cases especially if they backbite { talk bad behind other peoples back} about other people they are reducing the sins of non believers and taking all the non belivers sins on them selves just by talking bad about other people behind other peoples back.
so just because you go to church every sunday or go to the mosque every friday does not mean that you are a good believer. there are other good deeds you have to and god will consider before you.
Just by talking behind someone else is back you have gain their sins for your good deeds. so there.
2007-10-04 02:22:18 · answer #4 · answered by mummyyusuf 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Once you pass into eternity your decision-making time is over. In the last 3 years I've lost 2 good friends in 2 different car accidents. Both were instant deaths. They didn't even have time to realize they were going to die. What's your guarantee you'll live to see tomorrow? The wise think ahead. There are only two gates you can be standing at, the right one or a wrong one. Make sure you're standing at the right one.
2007-10-04 02:15:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
I like your concept. As I've always said in terms of my own life, if, by some ridiculous, microscopic chance there is a god, I have lived an honest life and have tried to help, rather than judge or hurt, my fellow human beings. Allegedly, god would know this, and I think he'd be fine with it.
I'd like to add: don't you think the average person probably hasn't done anything all that horrible during his or her lifetime? What would require such forgiveness--not sitting in a church on a Sunday morning? Hardly a sin worth spending eternity in hell for, eh?
2007-10-04 02:15:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
After you are dead it will be too late.
So by your logic, you can offend and hurt anyone and justify it by asking God to forgive you at the end. It simply doesn't work that way, because God knows the intent of your heart.
Sorry you feel it's a waste of time..
Without God, it really is just a waste of your life.
You would also be missing out on living the best life possible while you are alive.
2007-10-04 02:15:26 · answer #7 · answered by Bill Mac 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Are you that Naive which you think of as a fashion to transform somebody the will arises sleep with them? How does this help in changing. a individual. you may no longer covert an Atheist,boy they even have placed one up on you to get you in the sack.LOL
2016-10-10 07:10:36 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He doesn't forgive all anyway...........there is one sin that forgiveness rests on........the sin of rejecting the Holy Spirit when He presents the message of the Gospel to the person. This is sometimes called the unforgivable sin.......and it is. Unbelief, rejection of Jesus, puts the person in a place for judgment for all their sins. Jesus did take our place, took our punishment for those sins, but we have to accept Him as our Savior to benefit from His sacrifice.
2007-10-04 02:22:10 · answer #9 · answered by Joyful Noise 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
When I die, if I run into a god, I'll tell him that I was wrong.
But until that time, I won't believe in any gods.
(Unless I'm visited by one, in life. No, ain't going to happen.)
2007-10-04 02:18:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋