3 quick questions about Jesus dying for our sins?

Question

I was just wondering if anyone could expand on what the bible means by 'Jesus died for our sins'?

1) Does that refer to sins past, present and future?

2) If so, does that mean that no matter what we do, we will be forgiven?

3) [because I have a feeling that remorse for your sins would be an additional requirement to being forgiven by God]...

...why did Jesus die for our sins, when it didn't give us complete forgiveness in the long run? - i.e. we have to be remorseful for our sins as well.

Thanks everyone by the way, I got a lot of really interesting, useful and thought-provoking feedback!

Answer 1

In order to be forgiven for your sins, you have to believe in the one who was sacrificed for your sins. You have to accept what He did for you.

That was done for all sins, past, present, and future.

As a matter of fact all of your sins were committed after Jesus was sacrificed on the cross.

John 17:3 says, 'And this is eternal life, that you know the father in heaven and His Son whom he sent'. My paraphrase.

John 3:16 says, 'For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life'.

John 3:3 says, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.'

John 3:5 says, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.'

When we are born in the flesh, we are born of the water, but in order to enter heaven, we have to be born of the Spirit, that is we have to have the Spirit of God living in us, and we have to give all authority over our lives to him.

The scriptures tell us to repent of our sins. The word repent is a military term and means 'do an about face, and proceed in the opposite direction'.

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Answer 2

1) Colossians 2:13, "And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses." All sins past and present and future are forgiven in the sense that we will not be cast into hell for them.

2) We will be forgiven, but will suffer great loss in another way. For instance, we will not hear the Lord say to us, "Well done, good and faithful servant." If we continue in rebellion to death, we will not receive a crown, an inheritance, a grand reputation, or a throne in the life to come.

3) When you believe that Jesus died for your sins, you will already feel remorse for your sins. If a close friend or parent or marriage partner died, you would feel the sadness. No one would have to tell you to be sad. In the same way, if you know you had offended God and were guilty of hell, you would feel remorse, but you would also express gratitude that He saved you. It would not be a requirement, but a natural outflow of your faith.

Jesus died for our sins to give us complete forgiveness in the long run. However, the choice is always ours as to whether we will accept the salvation from the power of sin or not. We may choose to sin, or to take His power and say "no" to sin. For those who love Him, His blood flows continually and washes away all sin: "If we walk in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin" (1 John 1:7).

Answer 3

1. Yes.

2. Yes.

3. um...that kind of was covered by a "Yes" to answer 2.

Remorse for sin is desirable, but a qualification that I don't believe that God requires. It is desirable because it fosters a healthier mindset. If you know you do wrong, you immedately go to God with it, and if needed, go to whomever you wronged and apologize (the apology is for you, not them). If you ignore the prick of conscience, you get into all kinds of messes that I won't cover here. But as a requriement...well, first, what Christ freed us from was not just sin, but having to live under the law for absolution. If it were a requirement, it would be a law, which is something that Christ died to free us from (Romans. It's all in Romans). And second...you're not going to be able to recognise every single sin. Pride. Egotistical views, selfishness, causing hurt to others...people don't always recognise this when they see it and are quick to justify it. And some just plain don't realize what they're doing is wrong.

Forgiveness covers that.

"For by GRACE you have been saved through FAITH, that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God. Not of WORKS, lest anyone should boast." (Ephesians 2: 8-9, emphasis mine)

Basically, Grace is that you are not judged, and you're saved through faith that you have that grace. It has nothing to do with you, what you can do, how you behave or how much you give up. God just DID it. You can't boast that you're a better Christian than I, nor can I boast that I am a better Christian than you, because we both fall under the same judgement, or rather, the same lack thereof, and neither one of us did anything to earn it.

I also believe that there is an actual change in the way a Christian behaves after a true conversion, because they no longer want to do the things they did. It's not a "Oh, I don't want to sin anymore and risk my soul" but rather a "I want to follow God" (that's a real subtle distinction, but a real one). The focus is not sin and the condition of the soul, but on God because that's what you genuinely want. to grow in God.

As I said, read Romans. Several times. Several different translations if you need them. It's all right there.

Answer 4

Sins in the past are the ones committed before we understood what the truth is.
Present sins is our own human imperfections.
Future sins are those we commit without realising it.
The sin against the Holy Spirit is unforgivable!
Having a clean conscience before Jehovah is a desirable thing. But if we are truly repent, and stop committing that sin, ask for forgiveness, then Jehovah will forgive us.
Jesus Sacrificial death did several things. 1) It proved that Adam could have stayed faithful to Jehovah under test. 2) It bought back for mankind what Adam had lost, the right for mankind to have a relationship with Jehovah, and threw Jesus Sacrifice, his blood bought us the hope of eternal life here on a Paradise earth after Armageddon. Jesus has been ruling as King of God's Kingdom since 1914. Soon he will exercise power and authority over the earth and bring in those blessing that Jehovah has promised threw this written word, the bible.

Answer 5

Jesus died in order to accomplish all that was necessary for mankind to be redeemed, Satan's dominion to be destroyed, and heaven to be opened.

Perfect contrition, along with authentic repentence, have always been required for the forgiveness of sins.

Jesus' infinite and perfect sacrifice "paid" the necessary "satisfaction" or penalty for confessed sin, as required by God's divine justice.

But sins were never automatically forgiven, and will never be.

We have an intellect and free will. We are expected to recognize our shortcomings, and ask for forgiveness when we need it, cooperating as best we can with God's grace, according to our faith, and the faith of the authentic church.

The beginning of the whole process is typically the sacrament of baptism, which initiates a person into the church, making Christs' grace, forgiveness and peace freely available, for the asking.

Our redemption is still unfinished, since sin, death and hell are still the reality for many.

We look to Christ's 2nd coming to finally complete the job.

Answer 6

1) Does that refer to sins past, present and future? Yes

2) If so, does that mean that no matter what we do, we will be forgiven?

Not like that, your flesh sins, your spirit is clean
When you die your flesh stays here and when Gods sees you he sees the righteousness of Christ.

Even though we are not held accountable for the wrongs we do...
We should do right "because" of what He did for us

3) [because I have a feeling that remorse for your sins would be an additional requirement to being forgiven by God]...

We should feel ashamed for the wrong we do but as far as what God "sees"....... He doesn't see them....all He sees is Christ

We accepted Christ because of what we saw in ourselves, after we accepted Him we were given His faith and that is what God sees.

Answer 7

I consider we now have a unsuitable notion of what sins are being cited within the NT. The proposal works like this: Israel went into exile b/c of her sins. When God forgave the ones sins, Israel's exile might be over. Exile had a two degree definition: a million was once geographical, and the opposite cited God having left the temple, and Israel being subjugated by way of Pagan overlords. By Jesus' time, the geographical exile was once lengthy over. But to any individual paying concentration, Israel was once very a lot nonetheless in exile. Meaning that Israel had but to be forgiven for its sins. Jesus' demise at the pass marked the tip of Israel's exile on the grounds that via Jesus, God had lower back to Israel, and had began the paintings of restoring her. It is on this feel that Jesus died for "our" sins. The "our" does no longer always confer with you and me, however as an alternative unearths its context inside Judaism. There is some way wherein that "our" will get expanded to the entire global, however that's a tale for one other time, however it's nonetheless very a lot grounded in God's common promise to Abraham, and the formation of the country of Israel. This is a gigantic side of the context that almost all folks are lacking once we learn the Gospels, and once we attempt to make feel of what Paul is speakme approximately.

Answer 8

1) Yes. Any sin that you commit can be placed on His shoulders, as long as you are willing to forsake that sin.

2) Again, as long as your sorrow for committing the sin is sincere, and you are willing to promise Him never to fall into the sin again.

3) I don't exactly understand what you mean, but when you truly repent, then our Father in Heaven will forgive us, just like your parents on earth forgive you for whatever you do, and will love you no matter what.
Jesus died for our sins because he loves us, and he knows that, if we do the best we can do, and put our trust in Him, he will do the rest for us, no matter what that takes.
We have to be remorseful for our sins, but we also have to give them up. We have to have trust in Him that he will forgive us, and if you truly trust Him, your remorse and guilt will be placed on his shoulders.

Answer 9

Jesus died for all sins: past, present, and future. It is God's way of satisfying the penalty of sin and the requirements of God's absolute holiness and justice. Since this is a covenant act, man has to take part in this process in faith. The grace there was that Jesus paid everything and offered it to us. Faith is when we say we are weak to address our own sin, pay the penalty of sin, and make ourselves righteous before God. Faith is coming to Christ: trusting, believing, and taking part in the covenant. When we give that faith, then there is complete forgiveness.

Answer 10

God will forgive sins when we sincerely repent of them... but not when we pay lip service to being sorry and make a lifestyle of continuing in the sin.

1) yes -- sins past, present, future, given the clarification above.

2) answer is no.

3) remorse is not sufficient. Repentance is needed. Repentance = remorse + doing our best to avoid the sin in the future.

Cordially,
John
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Answer 11

If you are human and live on this earth you will sin everyday. I don't care what religion you are this earth is full of sin. Jesus died for our sins to give us a choice to choose to live for him. That is why God says to repent daily. If you do not repent for your sins daily you are not forgiven. Just because he died doesn't give us a clean slate to do whatever we want. He died so we would have a choice to go to heaven or go to hell. If you are truly saved through the blood of jesus christ, you will have that conscience that tells you what you did was wrong. Say if I hurt someone's feelings, It would eat me up inside until I apologized for what I said. Other people can say anything or do anything and it not bother them. You have to choose a path and live by it. God is forgiving but you have to ask to recieve forgiveness.