Do you ever beg God for forgiveness if you know you're going to do the same thing again?

Question

I'm kinda stuck with this one because doesn't it only make sense to ask for forgiveness because you know you have done wrong and will not do it again? I know only God can judge, before you fire that one at me, but what do you do? x

Answer 1

i ask for forgiveness all the time i am told by my imam that god is full of mercy and kindness you think of doing something which is not right and you dont do it you will not get any sin and if you do it and you beg for forgiveness that sin turns in to a good deed so do not hasitate to beg for mercy or forgiveness god bless us all with the right path to follow

Answer 2

Why is sex such a big deal to you? Well, because it's such a big deal to all normal and healthy human beings. I'm already 71 years old. My wife is 75. We have a big family - children, and grandchildren. You can just imagine. Sex has always been a big deal to me. It still is. Maybe not in exactly the same way, but big deal it is. But it's important you learn how to handle it properly. Otherwise, it has the tendency to run out of control, go crazy, and you begin to face a lot of unnecessary problems. You have to study this thing, understand it correctly, and then, try to learn how to handle it. And make it serve you. Instead of the thing dominating, becoming the master, and actually be the one handling you. It's a blind very strong natural force. You don't want it to become the master. It can be a real tyrant if you allow it. A wise man once said, "There can be no tyrant where there are no slaves." That's true, and you better believe me. If I should tell you all I want to say about sex it would amount to one book. Not a small book, mind you. But maybe I can just tell you a little something that you can start with. And from that you'll have to work your way towards making yourself the master and sex your slave. Not the other way around. Human experience runs on two levels - the level of the senses, and that of intellect. Most people, I think, are sensual, with very little or none at all of intellectual experience going on in their lives. And this is where sex really will always manage to take the upperhand in almost everything they do. It's because sex happens to be the sweetest most delightful thing on the sense level. The thing to do is to climb up to the intellectual level. Make that long overdue exploration into the world of meanings. Read books. You might be reading novels already. Start moving into those that provide intellectual exercise. Mine was philosophy. But it seems to me girls don't go for it. It looks like a very male kind of activity. You can try a little. Just to find out what it is, maybe. Girls, I think, would enjoy poetry more. A book of poems might be a good idea for you. The target is intellectual life, intellectual experience. Make it as highly developed as you possibly can. Make it something delightful enough to counter balance sex pleasure, down below on the level of the senses. When you're busy up there at the intellectual level, you're supposedly out of reach by sex or things sexy. You stay there to rest from the intensity and natural turbulence of sex matters. It feels like I've been talking too much already. Any questions at this point?

Answer 3

Yeah I do that sometimes. I think that sometimes we do this unknowingly, and the cause to this would be the fact that the brain is really a defense mechanism, always trying to protect the body. Just to make ourselves feel good, the thought process goes through rationalizing an act and finally convince itself that it's justifiable... same thing with what u said, we are tricking ourselves, and make a fake promise for the meantime and only hope that we will have it right the next time... I think it's just a matter of not taking some things serious... well my whole point is that when one is in a state of guilt, the mind, as a defense mechanism, goes through rationalizing and manipulating the truth just to make things seem right...

Answer 4

It does not make sense to ask for forgiveness until you know that you have allowed Truth to work the miracle within you of casting out the love of that sin. God's forgiveness comes with the destruction of the sin, but sin that remains is still punished, for this is a law from before the beginning.
What to do? Stick to the truth that God never sends temptation to His spiritual ideas, and this starts eroding belief that one must sin for this reason or that reason.

Answer 5

When you truly love the Lord and know you've sinned, you don't WANT to continue doing the same thing again and again, dear one. That's what being born again is about. The Holy Spirit lives within the Christian and we are a new creature in Christ. Once we are convicted of a sin, we ask to be forgiven, then we turn away from it.

And, by the way, we don't have to "beg" for forgiveness. God knows our heart and all we have to do is ask for forgiveness and we are forgiven if we are truly contrite.

God bless!

Answer 6

Hum, interesting question will all your honesty... allow me to appreciate you for being so honest in public.

You definitely have a Heart of Gold, there inside you.

Actually I don't have balls to pick with God, All-mighty.... as I know very well He is Kind and equally Wrathful to those who dare to play hypocrisy with Him.

ADVICE (free) :)))

You don’t swear, instead, pray to God All-merciful to give you strength to refrain from the sin that you get into gain & gain with your will.
In case, if you are being compelled into sin time & again, then the sin will rest upon that tyrant who is forcing you to commit sin, not on you, you rest assured. Pray for God’s help against the tyrant, for God’s help comes for sure!

God is all just, and He loves the Just!

God Willing, once you are out of this bad situation, if into willingly yourself, then you can safely ask for the forgiveness of God, All-merciful. Praise God often, Thank God for He has given you courage to refrain for the sin, and Repent & repent and be a penitent person like so many prophets that made mistakes and were penitent afterwards.

Never forget God is All-merciful, which means, none is as merciful as Him. You ask for His mercy with pure heart.

Do you know, God called Abraham a man of pure faith! So you have to have faith in Him with a pure heart!

May God All-powerful give you strength, A'amin.

Answer 7

I never beg God for forgiveness. If I have done something wrong then I am entirely responsible and I do my best to put it right. God doesn't judge. I do.

Answer 8

God is most Merciful, Most Forgiving. He forgines when one repentence to Him.
True reprentence is when you promise never to sin again and keep that promise with God. Minor mistakes and sins are forgiven each time you ask for forgiveness and pray God often.

Answer 9

God forgives you automatically. He doesn't overlook sins, however. If you sin too much, it grieves the Holy Spirit and God stops hearing your prayers until you beg Him to listen to you again. If you ever feel like God doesn't hear you, confess your sins with detail, every single one you can remember.

Answer 10

if you know you are going to commit the same sin again, then are your truly sorry for having committed it in the first place?

if it is a sin you are working on defeating, and you are trying to defeat it.. then that is one thing. for example... i am working at controlling my anger and i may slip up and lose my temper

but if you got drunk last friday night and had a one night stand with some guy, and you have plans to do it again this firday night and you feel no remorse.... well then you can't really ask god to forgive you cause there is no remorse there....

you can't ask god to forgive you a sin if you have plans to go out and do it again.