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No, he doesn't forgive that foolishness. Once a Christian has knowledge of the gospel He or She is expected to live right.
Can a Christian sin and mess up from time to time? Yes. Can a Christian live a lifestyle of sinning on purpose? No.
God's grace covers repented sin not a willful attitude of sinning on purpose and turning God's grace into lewdness as a license to live in sin.
There is no such thing as a Christian who is a practicing thief, liar, adulterer, fornicator, drunkard, hateful, envious, greddy, bitter, arrogant, homosexual or lesbian, rude and backbiter.
A self professing Christian who practices sin is a liar and not real Christian.
Hebrews 10:26-31:
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.
Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Ephesians 4:17-24:
This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin.
For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!
Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.
Yes. Some people 🙋 have strong holds in their life that cause them to sin. If he tells us to forgive 7x7 times, why wouldn't he forgive us? Ultimately he knows our heart and our struggle. The thing is... you don't want to die in your sin because then you'll be disconnected from him forever. So just strive to overcome that stronghold and repent often.
God forgives if you honestly regret doing something bad. He will forgive no matter how many times you did it before and won't judge your past if you change. If you do the same mistake again it is usually a choice.
Beyond forgiveness? No. You can always be forgiven. But forgiveness has to be earned, so if you keep doing something, you are or forgiven. You need to change.
It's the whole idea of "saying sorry doesn't mean anything if you don't mean it." And if you do mean it, and then do that sin again later, you can be forgiven again... but it is on you to strive to be better.
Don`t give a fuck, i`m an atheist and the only feeling i have towards religion is disgust because they slowed the fuck out of science and are still wasting some scientists time by urging them to debunk the fuck out of religion. They then proceed to ignore the arguments brought up and forget about them then repeat the process. Fucking infuriating.
@HandsomeGuy500 Religion is the opposite of science. Science makes real predictions that come true. Science can predict the location and timing of a solar eclipse within a second. Science lets us build computers that work. Religion doesn't promise anything real. Religion just says "Your prayers will be answered. Or maybe not. God moves in mysterious ways."
@HandsomeGuy500 If the universe requires a creator, then by the same logic, God must have been created by a super-god, and so on and so on. Most atheists don't have a position on the origin of the universe. Anyway, even if the universe was created by god, we know nothing about this god and can never know anything. All the world's religions were just made up by people who didn't know any more about god than I do.
@HandsomeGuy500 Exactly. So why even start? Just say "I don't know how or if the universe was created". Saying "God created it" is pretty much the same thing. Saying then that "Therefore we must worship God" makes no sense at all. No one knows if God cares at all about human behavior. All the evidence is that no God is paying any attention to us, or at least not loving attention, since people die in natural disasters all the time.
@slatyb The only thing that makes sense is that someone created the universe and intelligent life. That being has to be eternal, if not, then time would not be moving forward because there would never be a beginning.
@HandsomeGuy500 Time is not so simple as that. It's entangled with space in a complex way. Things moving rapidly through space (relative to us) move through time (relative to us) more slowly.
@HandsomeGuy500 Theee... fuck? Without an eternal creator time would not exist? What the fuck did you just say? That`s like saying witought the creator of hersheys bars chocolate whouldn`t exit. You know what? Other than having to wrap your brain around complicated stuff, go watch this www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EtHF5ND3_s#t=2.00205 and think about that.
No, he doesn’t, and the reason is simple; if you don’t stop committing the sin then you haven’t repented.
The Greek word (and direct translation from the Hebrew that the Bible was mostly written in) for repentance is metanoia. Meta as in metamorphosis, and -noia as in paranoia. Meta means to fundamentally change, and -noia means “of the mind.”
So to repent, you need to understand in your mind that what you were doing was truly wrong, and you need to change your behavior.
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God supposedly drowned billions or trillions of innocent animals because of the actions of a few. I wouldn't hold your breath for forgiveness. I mean he sends people to hell for all eternity for masturbating, according to some beliefs
that mydear is is the million dollar question.. if u have sinned... im pretty sure that god has forgived u for all wrong doing... so i dont thing u should worry about what god does for u.. u have to trust the lord to guide u in the right direction.. its been said that god has things for the future for us... so i recommend that u trust the lord to help u with whatever is troubbling u
No only If you break the ten commentmens I gues but its wrong that you commit a sin go to churge pray ask forgifnes and then keep comiting the same sin
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