If you sin 132 times in a day and only understand and confess 23 of these sins, what happens?

Question

Does God not forgive your sins until you confess them?

If you think you have to confess them, to whom ? What frequency? Each sin event? Each hour? Each day? Each week, with the aid of a computer to show you the 924 different or repeated sins that week ? If you did the same sin five times that day, such as saying "Gee", can you lump all five of these blasphemies into one prayer for forgiveness?

How about iniquities that are far worse than just sins?

Answer 1

Here U go. Enjoy! John


DOCTRINE OF SIN

A. Definition.
1. Sin is anything contrary to the character of God, or acting
independently of God and God's provision, Rom 3:23b. Sin is coming short of
God's righteousness. The doctrine of sin in theology is called
hamartiology.
2. All sins are not the same to God and never have been. God knew
about all sins in eternity past. God knew simultaneously every sin that
would ever be committed by every member of the human race.
3. While all sins are not the same to God, the solution to all sins is
the same.
a. God is perfect righteousness. What the righteousness of God
demands, the justice of God executes. The righteousness of God condemned
all sins in human history. Therefore, the righteousness of God demanded
that the justice of God judge sin.
b. Therefore, the justice of God judged every sin in human
history in Christ on the Cross as a substitute for us. This is the doctrine
of substitutionary atonement. All sins were imputed to the perfect human
nature of Christ on the Cross. Christ accepted this imputation and the
sentence. Our Lord accepted the imputation because He had impersonal love
for all mankind.
c. Then God the Father judged every sin in human history after
our Lord accepted the imputation of all sins to His humanity. Our Lord
accepted the judgment of all our sins by God the Father because of His
personal love for God the Father.
d. The justice of God judged every sin in human history, so that
the love of God can provide the solution as expressed in the grace of God,
Eph 2:8-9.
e. In eternity past, Jesus Christ as eternal God made four
decisions:
(1) Substitutionary unlimited atonement--He agreed to go to
the Cross and be judged for the sins of the world in His humanity.
(2) Propitiation--He agreed to satisfy the justice and
righteousness of the Father.
(3) Reconciliation--He agreed to reconcile man to God
through faith alone.
(4) Redemption--He agreed to free man from slavery to the
sin nature by providing the redemption solution of salvation through faith
alone in Christ alone.
4. There was no forgiveness at the Cross. There was judgment,
judgment, judgment.
a. Forgiveness is separated from the Cross.
b. Forgiveness does not occur at the Cross. Forgiveness is a
result of the Cross. Before the judgment of the Cross began, our Lord
prayed to the Father from His humanity to forgive those who were crucifying
Him. That was personal forgiveness from Him and not the same as forgiveness
of sins at the moment of salvation.
c. Eph 1:7, "by Him we have redemption through His blood, the
forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of His grace."
(1) "Redemption" is in the accusative case. "Forgiveness"
is in the accusative case.
(2) Therefore, this is an Attic Greek double accusative.
This is the accusative of object and result. This is not Koine Greek. This
is not an accusative of apposition. There is no such thing as an accusative
of apposition in the Greek language.
(3) Forgiveness is the result of the redemptive work of
Jesus Christ on the Cross. Redemption was the judgment on the Cross.
Forgiveness is the result.
(4) Forgiveness occurs at the moment of salvation through
the decision of mankind with regard to the salvation work of Christ.
d. All pre-salvation sins are forgiven the moment we believe in
Christ.
e. All postsalvation sins are forgiven the moment we obey 1 Jn
1:9 and acknowledge our sins. God is faithful and righteous to forgive us
because Christ never lost His perfect righteousness of His human nature
while being judged for every sin of the human race. Not only does God the
Father forgive us the sins we acknowledge, but He forgives us for all
wrongdoing, that is, for all the sins we have committed which we did not
know were sins.
f. All the sins of the unbeliever are never forgiven because this
person never believes in Christ. These sins are never used in judgment of
the unbeliever. They are not even mentioned because they were judged in
Christ on the Cross. The unbeliever is judged because he has never believed
in Christ and because of his good works, which add up to minus
righteousness. The unbeliever has rejected the love of God, but the love of
God has never rejected the unbeliever.
5. All sins are not the same, but the solution to all sins is the
same--the salvation work of Jesus Christ on the Cross.
a. Pre-salvation sins are forgiven at the point of regeneration.
b. Postsalvation sins of the believer are forgiven at the point
of rebound.
6. The sin nature controls the soul and we are carnal until we use the
divine solution of rebound. When we rebound, we recover the filling of the
Holy Spirit and move on in our spiritual life. Never look back; keep moving
in the spiritual life.
7. God the Holy Spirit is grieved until we use the divine solution of
rebound.
8. We become stiff-necked, stubborn, hard of heart, and have scar
tissue of the soul until we use the divine solution of rebound. We are
punished by God when we do not use the divine solution.
9. The old sin nature has an area of strength and an area of weakness.
We are tempted in our area of weakness. The sin nature also has two trends:
one trend toward self-righteousness and legalism, and another trend toward
antinomianism and lasciviousness.

B. General Categories of Sin.
1. Imputed sin. The entire human race was counted guilty when Adam
sinned, 1 Cor 15:22; Rom 3:23b, 5:12, "in Adam all die."
2. Inherent sin, Rom 5:12a.
a. When Adam sinned he acquired an old sin nature. Therefore,
the old sin nature was brought into existence by Adam.
b. The human race inherits the old sin nature through physical
birth through the chromosomes of the father, Ps 51:5.
c. Every member of the human race retains the old sin nature
after salvation.
d. Therefore, Adam is a sinner and saved through grace just as
any other member of the human race.
3. Personal sin is a manifestation and result of having an old sin
nature, 1 Jn 1:8-10. There are two kinds of personal sin: known sins and
unknown sins or sins we commit in ignorance.

C. The Sequence of Sin.
1. Imputed sin results in spiritual death. When Adam sinned, the
entire human race sinned. Therefore man is born spiritually dead and needs
the new birth.
2. Inherent sin. When Adam sinned he acquired an old sin nature and
brought the old sin nature into existence. The human race acquires an old
sin nature because of physical birth.
3. Personal sin. The human race sins personally because of the
presence of the old sin nature both before and after salvation.

D. The Work on the Cross Regarding Sin.
1. Imputed sin. In Adam we are counted guilty, 1 Cor 15:22, Rom 3:23,
while in Christ we are counted not guilty, 1 Cor 15:22b, 2 Cor 5:21, Eph
2:1, 5-6.
2. Inherent Sin. Jesus Christ died with reference to everyone's old
sin nature. He made provision to handle sins from the old sin nature, 1 Jn
1:7. He rejected human good which comes from the old sin nature, Eph 2:8-9;
Rom 4:4, 6:10, 8:8; Isa 64:6.
3. Personal sin. Jesus Christ bore the sins of everyone, 1 Jn 1:9,
2:2.
4. The penalty of sin, spiritual death, is replaced by the provision
of spiritual life for anyone who believes in Christ, Rom 6:23; Mt 27:46.

E. The Issue of Sin.
1. For the unbeliever, the issue of sin is rejection of Christ as
Savior, Jn 3:18, 36. This is the basis of their condemnation at the last
judgment. Personal sin never condemns anyone to hell.
2. For the believer, the issue of sin is the utilization of the
rebound technique, 1 Jn 1:9.
3. In the New Testament the word "sins" in the plural refers to
personal sins as an action. The word "sin" in the singular refers to the
old sin nature. (Rom 5:13 is an exception, here it refers to the principle
of sin.)

F. The Origin of Sin.
1. God is not the author of sin or temptation, James 1:13-15. All
sins come from the volition of the believer's soul. The old sin nature only
motivates the believer to sin. He does it of his own free will.
2. Sin originated with Satan through negative volition.
3. God created Adam and the woman in perfection. Both were free moral
agents, just as Satan was. They could only sin by negative volition acting
independently of God. When God created Adam and the woman, they were
perfect beings and their point of reference with God was personal love.
Once they sinned, they came under the impersonal love of God, but their
point of reference with God was now God's eternal, perfect justice.
4. God did not create Adam or the woman with an old sin nature. They
acquired an old sin nature through negative volition.
a. They did not need an active conscious in the Garden. There
was only one sin they could commit--rejection of the will of God.
b. When the original sin of mankind occurred, the justice of God
created an invisible barrier between God and man. Justice creates the
barrier because the justice of God is now the point of reference. The man
and woman hid themselves from Jesus Christ in the Garden because there was a
barrier between God and man.
c. The love that God now had for them was impersonal love.
5. The sovereignty of God and the free will of man are coexistent on
the earth and come together at the cross. The ideal situation is when the
free will of man meets the sovereignty of God at the cross. The sovereignty
of God gave man free will to resolve the angelic conflict. Free will gave
man the right to choose for himself even in opposition to the will of God.
6. Adam's choice was made against God's will, but God isn't willing
that any should perish, 2 Pet 3:9. Adam knew exactly what he was doing when
he sinned; the woman did not have a clue, 1 Tim 2:14. This is why the sin
nature is passed down through the male sperm.
7. If Adam had not sinned, would he have lived forever? No! Because
eternal life only comes by faith in Christ.
8. False logic: God made all things; sin is a thing; therefore, God
made sin. Sin is not a thing. Sin is acting independently of God either
mentally or overtly. So God did not create sin, sin is a result of the
negative volition of the free will of a creature.
9. At the point of physical birth the justice of God creates soul life
and imputes it to biological life creating human life. Only God can create
human beings. Simultaneously Adam's original sin is imputed to the
genetically formed sin nature.
a. Rom 5:12, "Therefore, just as through one man sin [the
original sin] entered into the world and [spiritual] death, so death spread
to all people because all sinned when Adam sinned."
b. 1 Cor 15:22, "For in Adam all die [spiritual death], so also
in Christ shall all be made alive."
c. Physical birth is the moment of attainment of spiritual death;
regeneration is the moment of attainment of eternal life. The gospel is the
good news that the barrier between God and man has been removed.
10. The justice of God created a barrier between God and man when Adam
and the woman sinned in the Garden.
a. This barrier is based on spiritual death. Every person is
born behind the barrier between God and man and the justice of God is the
point of reference for all mankind.
b. The virgin pregnancy and virgin birth allowed our Lord to be
born without a sin nature or the imputation of Adam's original sin, so that
there was no barrier between the justice of God the Father and the humanity
of Christ. Jesus Christ was born as Adam was created, 1 Cor 15:22, "In Adam
all die; in Christ shall all be made alive." Our Lord lived a perfect life,
using the two power options and eight problem solving devices to resist all
temptation and arrive at the Cross in a state of absolute perfection.
c. The justice of God the Father created this barrier and only
the justice of God the Father can remove this barrier, and He does so by the
salvation work of Jesus Christ on the Cross through the imputation and
judgment of all personal sins in human history. 1 Pet 2:24; Isa 53:5-6.
d. The justice of God the Father called for the imputation of all
sins of the human race to the Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross. Our Lord
removed the barrier of sin by bearing the punishment for our sins, so that
sin is not the issue in salvation. This is seen at the last judgment where
sin is not the issue in eternal judgment. The issue is not sin but the
righteousness of God versus the righteousness of man for salvation. The
unbeliever is judged because he has not believed in the uniquely-born son of
God. Rom 5:8, "God demonstrates His own love toward us in that while we
were yet sinners Christ died as a substitute for us."
e. Sin is not the issue in salvation; faith in Christ is the
issue. Jesus Christ satisfied the justice of God the Father. God the
Father was propitiated by the judgment of Jesus Christ on the Cross. Jn
3:18, "He who believes in the Son is not judged. He who does not believe is
judged already because he has not believed in the uniquely-born Son of God."
Jn 3:36, "He who believes in the Son has eternal life. He who does not
believe shall not see life but the wrath of God abides on him."
(1) The reason that personal sins are not an issue is
because Jesus Christ on the Cross received the judgment of every sin in
human history.
(2) While personal sins are an issue in human life because
they attack human freedom and human relationships, personal sin is not an
issue in salvation or the last judgment.
(3) The justice of God that erected the barrier between God
and man at the point of original sin is the same justice of God that removed
the barrier at the Cross by the imputation and judgment of all sins.
(4) The justice of God that condemns is the same justice of
God that saves at the moment of faith alone in Christ alone.
(5) The justice of God that saves the believer through faith
in Christ is the same justice of God that condemns the unbeliever at the
last judgment.
(6) Human volition and the justice of God meet at either
salvation or at the last judgment, depending on whether a person believes in
Christ or rejects Him.
f. The mechanics of the removal of the barrier:
(1) Spiritual death is removed by regeneration.
(2) Human self-righteousness is removed by the imputation of
divine righteousness.
(3) Position in Adam is exchanged for position in Christ.
(4) Sin is removed by unlimited atonement, 2 Cor 5:14-15,19;
1 Tim 2:6, 4:10; Tit 2:11; Heb 2:9; 2 Pet 2:1; 1 Jn 2:2.
g. The removal of the barrier is called reconciliation, Eph 2:15-
16; Col 1:20; 2 Cor 5:18-19,21.

G. New Testament Categories of Sin.
1. Col 3:5-10, "Therefore, begin to put to death the members of your
earthly body: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which
amounts to idolatry. For it is on account of these things that the wrath of
God will come, and in them you also once walked, when you were living in
them. But now you also, put these all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander,
and abusive speech from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you
laid aside the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new
self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the
One who created him."
a. Verse 5, "begin to put to death the members of the body," is a
reference to rebound, "the members of the body" being a reference to the old
sin nature.
b. PORNEIA means fornication, that is, unnatural sexual vices, or
any illicit sexual intercourse.
c. AKATHARSIA means impurity of mind, that is, mental adultery,
or unnatural sexual lusts.
d. PATHOS means degenerate passions.
e. EPITHUMIA means evil lust or desires.
f. PLEONEZIA means having the will to have more, that is
inordinate lust or desire.
g. ORGE means anger, generally caused by jealousy.
h. THUMOS means emotions in turbulence, tantrums.
i. KAKIA means depravity, evil directed toward someone.
j. BLASPHEMIA means to malign or slander the character of God.
k. AISCHROLOGIA means deformed or ugly speech; talk that hurts
others.
2. Prov 6:12-19 teaches two categories of sin.
a. Verses 12-15 address the troublemaker. He is arrogant,
jealous, implacable with revenge motivation which is evil. He is a gossip,
and guilty of inordinate ambition and inordinate competition. The
troublemaker is a disaster in the local church and in any organization.
Troublemakers are always uptight. In their own mind, troublemakers are
always better than everyone else.
b. Verse 12, "A worthless person, an evil man is one who walks
with a false mouth." This means that trouble making is often generated
through the mouth in gossip, maligning, and judging. A false mouth
emphasizes the sins of the tongue.
c. Verse 13 teaches that a troublemaker has body language. "He
winks with his eye, he signals with his feet, he points with his finger."
Winking means you wink as you run down someone. To signal with the feet
means to scape the feet, a custom we don't have. It is rude to point the
finger. All this is the body language of mockery, ridicule, and derision.
A troublemaker gets his kicks by putting other people down. He himself is a
slob, but he can put down other people.
d. Verse 14, "Perversity in his right lobe devises evil
continually [or a better translation, "malice is in his right lobe; he
devises evil at all times"]; he spreads strife." Perversity is deviation
from doctrine. The troublemaker does not go by what the Bible says is right
and wrong. Some believers evangelize; some believers spread strife.
e. Verse 15, "Therefore, his destruction will come suddenly
[divine discipline]; he will be broken instantly and there is no remedy."
First, the troublemaker suffers from self-induced misery under the law of
volitional responsibility, but eventually he gets clobbered with divine
discipline in three stages: warning discipline, intensive discipline, and
eventually dying discipline. So either remain a troublemaker and be broken,
or depart from it through the rebound technique.
f. Verses 16-19 list the seven worst sins in God's eyes. Verse
16, "There are six things which the Lord hates; in fact, seven are an
abomination to His soul." As an anthropopathism, hatred describes the
policy of God in terms of human modus operandi so we can understand it.
g. Verse 17, "A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed
innocent blood,"
(1) A proud look is arrogance, which includes everything,
e.g., bitterness, jealousy, vindictiveness, implacability, hatred, self-
pity, etc.
(2) A lying tongue refers to malicious gossip and slander.
(3) Hands that shed innocent blood refers to murder.
(4) Note the pattern in verse 17, for it lists the three
categories of sin: mental attitude sins, sins of the tongue, and overt
sins.
(5) Murder is the only overt sin listed among the seven
worst sins (not fornication). Murder deprives an individual of his right to
live given to him by God at birth with the imputation of the spark of life
to his soul.
h. Verse 18, "A right lobe that devises evil conspiracies, feet
that run rapidly to evil,"
(1) There always frustrated people who become
conspiratorial. When authority makes them feel uncomfortable, they do
everything they can to undermine authority. This sin refers to children who
undermine the authority of their parents, and of anyone else who undermines
any authority over them.
(2) As a result of conspiracy, there is active civil
disobedience. Feet running rapidly to evil refers to criminality,
destruction of property and life in the name of some crusade.
i. Verse 19, "A false witness who utters lies, he who sows
discord [strife] between the brethren."
(1) Jews had the greatest system of jurisprudence in
history. So a false witness who lies makes it impossible to bring out the
facts.
(2) Sowing discord or strife between the brethren refers to
playing one person against another.
3. 2 Tim 3:2-7 deals specifically with Christian sins. These are sins
that occur in every church.
a. Verse 2, "For mankind will be lovers of self, lovers of money,
boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful,
wicked,"
(1) To be a lover of money doesn't mean to appreciate money,
but to sin in relationship to money, e.g., stealing money or being dishonest
for monetary gain.
(2) We live in a time when people are really ungrateful.
b. Verse 3, "unloving, implacable, malicious gossips, without
self-control, brutal, haters of good of intrinsic value,..." Unloving means
you have no normal, natural love.
c. Verse 4, "treacherous, thoughtless, conceited, lovers of
pleasure rather than lovers of God,"
d. Verse 5, "holding to a form of godliness although they have
repudiated its power. Avoid such as these."
(1) Holding to a form of godliness means they talk a good
fight, full of pious "amens" and "hallelujahs."
(2) The power of godliness is in the divine dynasphere.
Such people have repudiated that power by being in reversionism and the
cosmic system.
e. Verse 6, "For among them are those who creep into households
and captivate silly women weighed down with sins led on by various lusts,"
f. Verse 7, "Always learning [gnosis], but never able to come to
epignosis knowledge of doctrine." They never get into life beyond gnosis,
which is epignosis.
4. Sexual sins.
a. The Bible forbids fornication which is sex committed by an
unmarried person. Fornication is prohibited in 1 Cor 6:18 and 1 Thes 4:3.
Corinthians has so much to say about fornication because so many of those
Christians were going into heathen temples and fornicating with the temple
prostitutes. It was free and was part of the religion as the worship of the
gods.
b. Adultery is prohibited, Ex 20:14; Deut 5:18. Adultery is sex
committed by married persons.
c. Mental adultery can be committed constantly, as opposed to
physical adultery. So in many ways, mental adultery is worse. It is
prohibited in Mt 5:27-28. Mental adultery is perpetual adultery, in
contrast to physical adultery which is intermittent.
d. Incest is sex committed between family members. It is
forbidden in Lev 18:6-17, 20:14; Deut 27:20. Believers commit incest!
e. Homosexuality and lesbianism are sins committed by born-again
believers. Homosexuality among men is absolutely a sin, and is forbidden in
Lev 18:22, 20:13. Rom 1:26-27 forbids both homosexuality and lesbianism.
f. Bestiality means to have sex with animals, and it is a sin,
Lev 18:23, 20:15.
g. Pimping and prostitution are sins, and not a legitimate
business. They are forbidden in Lev 19:29; Deut 23:17.
h. Rape is a sin. Rape is defined as superimposing a sexual act
on someone who has rejected you. It is generally committed by a male or a
group of males. It is forbidden as a sin in Deut 22:25-27.
i. Some sexual acts that are sins are not mentioned as such in
the Bible.
(1) Necrophilia which is sexual intercourse with a corpse.
(2) Pederasty is sexual intercourse between an adult and a
child.
(3) Voyeurism is sexual gratification by watching others
have sexual intercourse.
5. Emotional sins.
a. Fear is an emotional sin.
b. Worry and anxiety are emotional sins.
c. Anger is an emotional sin, and is always irrational.
d. Hatred is an emotional and irrational sin.
e. Violence is an emotional sin.
f. Murder is an emotional sin. Murder is related to sins that
are not emotional, such as bitterness, jealousy, frustration, etc.
6. Other sin categories include sins of legalism, sins of revenge,
sins of self-righteousness, sins related to rejection of authority, sins
related to crime, sins of irrationality, sins of mental illness, and
chemical sins (taking drugs).
a. Mentally ill people who murder ought to be executed, for they
still had the use of their volition and their emotion by which they
committed that sin of murder.
b. Chemical sins include the use of drugs such as opium, heroin,
marijuana, cocaine, crack, acid, etc.

H. The Importance of Understanding Sin.
1. In living the Christian life, it is important to know what is a
sin, so that:
a. You can avoid the temptation, recognizing it to be a sin.
b. You can rebound if you do sin.
2. So the more you know about sin, the closer the accounts you can
keep with God. Understanding what sin is gives you the opportunity of
building up resistance against it. You can identify what is sin in the
temptation stage, and that helps you to resist it. However, the
identification of temptation sometimes results in succumbing to that
temptation, and so you sin.
3. Temptation in itself is not the sin, but the volitional act of
succumbing to that temptation is sin.
4. The source of sin is human volition related to two categories.
a. Volition related to known sin is a sin of cognizance.
b. Volition related to unknown sin is a sin of ignorance.
5. When the believer commits a sin, identification of that sin makes
the function of rebound possible. Remember that one of the problems in
identifying sin is that many sins become accepted in a culture through many
generations, so that they are no longer considered a sin by society;
nevertheless, they are sins.
6. If you do not know a sin is a sin, you cannot rebound until you
commit a sin you know is a sin. For the ignorant, that may take some time;
and in the meantime they decline in their spiritual life, including going
through the stages of reversionism and becoming involved in the cosmic
system. So that by the time such a believer gets around to rebounding, he
may be so deeply involved in reversionism that, though in the divine
dynasphere briefly, he will get out again very quickly.
7. Remember that post-salvation sinning is the issue in rebound, i.e.,
the issue is not sins you committed before you were saved, but sins you
commit after you are saved.
8. Don't ever get the idea that you have reached sinless perfection,
or that you sin infrequently. That very thought is the sin of arrogance.
a. 1 Jn 1:8, "If we say we have no sin, we are deceiving
ourselves and the truth [doctrine] is not in us." We are not deceiving
anyone else, only ourselves. One of the greatest problems in spiritual
adolescence is self-deception. You think you're good or even perfect, not
realizing the many sins of self-righteousness of which you are guilty.
b. 1 Jn 1:10, "If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a
liar, and His word is not in us." So don't kid yourself; as long as you
live, you will have the sin nature in the cell structure of your body, and
you will sin.
9. The only way to recover the filling of the Spirit and fellowship
with God is through the rebound technique.
10. The only way to metabolize Bible doctrine and to advance to the
life beyond gnosis is through the filling of the Spirit. The filling of the
Spirit is the enabling power for the perception of doctrine, Jn 14:26,
16:12-14; 1 Cor 2:9-16.
11. Until the believer understands what the Bible calls sin, it is
impossible for him to understand his experiential status quo. Too many
people are committing sins and they are not aware that they are sins.
Therefore, although they may rebound, they get out of fellowship instantly.
This is an unstable situation, and not conducive to spiritual growth at all.
12. So as a royal priest, you must know what sin is so that you can
deal with your own sins before the Lord in the use of the rebound technique.
13. Ignorance of one's status in the protocol plan of God frustrates
the function of the ten problem-solving devices, which hinders your advance
to spiritual maturity where you become a winner and invisible hero.
14. In the rebound technique of 1 Jn 1:9, the believer takes the
responsibility for his own decisions, including his own sins, and does not
blame someone else for the function of his own volition. Too often, a woman
blames a man who "gets to her," as if she had no volition. Men do the same
thing; they always like to blame the woman, as if they had no volition of
their own. But you must always take the responsibility for your own
decisions. You begin to do so when you are consistent in the use of the
rebound technique.


Answer 2

The way it works with me is that I make many mistakes in the day. I usually notice an error and look for another way to go. If I wait a week or two my joy meter gets pretty low and I even get depressed so like eating, I figure maintenance daily at least and making corrections as the need arises. Some things get by me and pile up until, emotionally, I have to see something is wrong and make an adjustment. Of course some problems are not that easy and take time. Everything seems to come forward until you get rid of the problem and the whole house of cards falls and it's history. I think problem is a pretty good euphemism for sin. Christ said look to the lilies and we can look to nature for the answer also. So if God forgives until we confess is like in physics, we won't get results until we acknowledge an error, even if we don't understand it, and try another direction. You can forgive yourself, if you didn't know any better, but to keep doing the same thing that doesn't work is at least dumb. But we're not without a helper. It's a good ideas to consult it frequently if not constantly, just as we use our minds more or less constantly. We're dependent in either case. If we don't use our heads we'll be in trouble rather quickly. Same with not consulting our spirit. That's the best way to keep out of difficult world and stay in easy world.

As to keeping score, that can be discouraging. Life gives us some leeway. Although physics is exacting we can go to the moon with it. With something like that we do have to keep score as a moon landing is technical. The subconscious, at five megabytes per second, makes some adjustments almost automatically and so do we, even if we don't always spell it all out in English, five bytes per second. That's the religious experience and is superior to thinking about it, at least for being the slowest way. A heart response to life and God over an intellectual response. Did you ever work with someone who kept saying, I'm sorry, instead of learning quickly, getting on with it? Too engrossed in being sorry and self conscious/centered? Words, words words. If they don't get down into our hearts and spirits then they're just words, words, words, driving us crazy.

Answer 3

I believe we are as we are supposed to be. The only sins I acknowledge are those actions that cause hurt to others. The rest of the sins I have no worry about. Religion is a human invention. God and all the Hosts of Heaven do not need it. Neither do I. Paradise is full of forgiveness and acceptance. The wounded souls bring Hell with them.

Answer 4

"sin" is anything that is against The Word and
Will of God for mankind... that is why only mankind can sin... and not animals... "gee" is not a sin... no sin (today) is greater thatn any other... it is not sin that keeps any one out of Heaven... nor does sin send anyone to hell... The sin debt of all of mankind has been paid by The Blood of Christ... the subject is just a bit more complicated than this but would take all of YA's band width to go into... if you are not of The Church then do not worry about "sin".... worry about your rejection of God's free gift...that is what will keep you out of Heaven and eternaly seperate you from God... which will indeed be hell... if you are of the church you are trying to keep your sin'n to a minimum any way... and you know what you need to do about the ones you do commit...

All who come to God in The Way He prescribes will receive his free gift of Salvation. Those become part of The Body of The Church of which Jesus The Christ is The Head. Those are the ones of The True Christian Faith. Only those of The Church Will enter Heaven.

Answer 5

The Apostle Paul wrote in Ephesians that "So we praise God for the wonderful kindness he has poured out on us because we belong to his dearly loved Son. He is so rich in kindness that he purchased our freedom through the blood of his Son, and our sins are forgiven. He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding (Ephesians 1:6-8, NLT). This is referring to salvation where God has taken our sins and as the Psalmist says put them as far as the East is from the West (Psalm 102:12). This is the judicial forgiveness that God gives us upon receiving His Son Jesus Christ. All the past, present, and future sins are forgiven on a judicial basis meaning that we will not suffer eternal punishment for our sins. We still often suffer consequences of sin while we are here on earth - which brings us to your question.

The difference between Ephesians and 1 John is that 1 John is dealing with what we call "familial" forgiveness like that of a father and a son. For example if you do something wrong to your father, that is fall short of his expectations or rules, you have a hindered fellowship but you are still a son. That fellowship is hindered until you admit to your father that you have done wrong. The same way works with God, your fellowship is hindered with God until you confess that sin. Then the fellowship is restored.

During that time of brokenness you can experience doubt, frustration and even discipline from the Father. See what the writer of Hebrews says about discipline: "As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Whoever heard of a child who was never disciplined? If God doesn’t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children after all. Since we respect our earthly fathers who disciplined us, should we not all the more cheerfully submit to the discipline of our heavenly Father and live forever. For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God’s discipline is always right and good for us because it means we will share in his holiness. No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it is painful! But afterward there will be a quiet harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way" (Hebrews 12:7-11, NLT).

Confession of sin according to 1 John 1:9 will help to keep us from the discipline of the Lord. If we fail to confess that sin the discipline of the Lord is sure to come until we do confess that sin. As you can see our sins are forgiven at salvation but our fellowship with God on a daily basis needs to stay in close fellowship. Therefore you need to confess your sin as it occurs to keep that right fellowship with God.

Recommended Resource: The Freedom and Power of Forgiveness by John MacArthur.

Answer 6

Honestly, for me actions speaks louder than voice. It is not the number of times you confess to God but it is the good deeds you made to your brothers and sisters that counts most. Everything we do, God knows it very well. Humans knows this too as well. So it is on our hands to do the virutes in life.

Interesting question! God bless and more power.

Answer 7

it all comes back to you. it will be painful lessons but you will ever lower that number. Simply confessing your sins does not mean you have learned not to do it anymore. It might even lure you into believing that you have when you know you havent, because you end up doing it again. If you demonstrate to God that you sincerely learned why these things are sins, then you wont think of doing it anymore, forever. You demonstrate to no one but God that you have learned your lesson and you WILL learn them. The idea is to learn them the easy way before you really get yourself trapped in webs of deceit

Answer 8

We are absolved of sin through grace. I believe that we should ask forgiveness if our hearts condemn us. However, forgiveness is given without us having to ask for it. We truly are free.

Answer 9

It is true that God requires us to confess our sins, and he will be faithful in forgiving them (1 John 1:9).

Yet, in the Old Testament, the nature of God's justice is made known:
Leviticus 5:14-19 -- Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 15 "If a person commits a trespass, and sins unintentionally in regard to the holy things of the Lord, then he shall bring to the Lord as his trespass offering a ram without blemish from the flocks, with your valuation in shekels of silver according to the shekel of the sanctuary, as a trespass offering. 16 And he shall make restitution for the harm that he has done in regard to the holy thing, and shall add one-fifth to it and give it to the priest. So the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him. 17 "If a person sins, and commits any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord, though he does not know it, yet he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity. 18 And he shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish from the flock, with your valuation, as a trespass offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him regarding his ignorance in which he erred and did not know it, and it shall be forgiven him. 19 It is a trespass offering; he has certainly trespassed against the Lord."

God has provided that we can make a sacrifice for sins we commit in ignorance or unintentionally. But Jesus Christ is our high priest and ultimate sacrifice for all sin. Those who submit to Christ, and strive for overcoming all sin in their lives, are under grace -- that is, their sins are not counted against them:
Romans 6:14 -- For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 4:7-8 -- "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are covered; Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin."

Our confession is to GOD! and the frequency is continually -- the sooner the better.

Romans 14:11 -- For it is written: "As I live, says the Lord, Every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall confess to God."

1 Thessalonians 5:17 -- pray without ceasing,

Matthew 5:25 -- Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

Answer 10

Look at what you're asking... this is beyond complicated and ridiculous. This is just one of the reasons why I don't believe in God anymore. It just doesn't compute!

Answer 11

it is not about how many times.. you confess.. it is between you and the higher power and what is truly in your heart. confession means nothing without sincerity.