Is repentance over a particular sin acceptable while I am a victim of another?

Question

Yes, repentance over a particular sin is acceptable even if the repentant insists on another sin which is of a different nature and not the same as the one he has repented. To take an example, if a man repents having accepted "interest money", but not drinking wine, his repentance over the interest money is acceptable, and vice versa, but if he repents simple interest but not compound interest then his repentance is invalid. So also if he repents drugs but insists on drinking wine, or vice versa, then that repentance is invalid too. It will also be incorrect and unacceptable if a man repents adultery with a woman but commits it with another. In all these cases they have only shifted from one variety of sin to another within the same kind. http://www.islamawareness.net/Repentance/

Answer 1

It's not the sin as much as it is the attitude. We all sin, but if we have the attitude that sin is acceptable as long as we repent of it eventually, then go out and do it again with a "couldn't care less" attitude, we can "repent" all we want for whatever "act" we have committed, but it wouldn't be sincere. It is not really repentance. Repentance means to be sorry enough not to want to do it again. If you commit adultery with one woman, "repent", then commit it again with another woman, you have not truly repented. On the other hand, if you repent of your adultery, but still struggle with stealing things, either because you don't realize it is wrong (unlikely but possible in some cultures) or because even though you don't want to steal you can't resist the temptation, your repentance for the adultery is acceptable to God. And if you keep asking him for help to refrain from stealing, he accepts your willingness and will give you the victory over it. We all have weaknesses.....if God wouldn't accept our repentance until we are perfect, there would be no hope for any of us. It's one step at a time.....like climbing a ladder.

Answer 2

The first thing that someone should be considering is whether the idea of sin is actually real.

If God is supposed to be perfect how could She have made anything or anyone that wasn't perfect.
Think about it. The idea of sin assumes certain things about God that seem highly unlikely.

First it assumes a God who is too incompetent to organize a simple educational field excursion and figure out a way to get all of the students home safely.

How likely is this that God would not be smart enough to come up with a plan for our salvation that is going to work 100 percent of the time?

It also assumes that God must have created us imperfect if we are sinners.

One might assume that God would be able to create someone perfect each and every time if he chose to. Assuming God is capable of this, then it follows logically that we must be perfect creations if we are actually creations of this perfect God.

Unless of course you are saying that God chose to create us imperfect.

If God created us imperfect then anything that may go wrong is Gods fault, not ours. This seems a bit illogical at best so I think that we need to assume that What God creates would have to be perfect.

If this is the case and Gods creations are perfect, then nothing that we can do could change what God created perfect and make it imperfect unless we think that we are more powerful than God is.

How likely is it that we the creation could be more powerful than the creator. I personally find this idea somewhat amusing, and a bit absurd.

Religion tells us that God is perfect. If this is true then it could hardly be logically for Gods creations to be considered to be anything less than perfect.

If this is the case and we are perfect creations of a perfect God then Nothing that we can ever do could possibly change this perfection that God willed, unless we were so powerful that our choices could override and change the will of God.

How likely is that????

Think about it.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 3

We're not victims of sin - else sin would not be sin. For how could one be reckoned guilty if they had no control over their behavior? They wouldn't. At least not by the God of the Bible. I can't speak for Islam though.

Yes there is temptation from the world, the flesh, and the devil, but whether one acts upon such temptation is one's own choice.

Answer 4

Your way is just so complicated! It is not the path for me. But if this is the path you chose to walk I will send good thoughts your way that you will not stumble and fall, because you make it sound very easy to do so.

Blessings

Answer 5

Your mind is frying. Soon smoke will billow from your ears!

Answer 6

Err... what was the question again?