What sort of crime/sin do you think is unforgivable?
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Sexual assault and or muder on children.
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Murder-you have no right to inflict harm unto another living soul. But sin and suicide are almost equally as bad. There is always an alternative.
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I believe in the law of retribution.  I've lived to see that what goes around comes around and what you sow, sooner or later you'll reap.  Sure, a lot of people have unfair things happen to them and it's not their fault.  But there's a kind of justice and equity in the universe too.  Many times people get exactly what they deserve, but we don't always have the satisfaction of knowing it.  For instance someone who's done you wrong will eventually have it done to them by someone else, but you won't know so you keep on thinking that they got away scott free.
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you mean accept Jesus Christ as their savior and TRULY repent from their perverted ways, yes?\n\nThen I WOULD forgive them.\nI'm not saying right away.. but I'll try as hard as I can to let go. \n\nJesus said, "If you cannot forgive people that have wronged you, then how you expect God to forgive your sin?"\n\nYou see, if we view everything from our own eyes, it is very hard to do the will of Christ.\nWe feel that we are better than the murderer or rapist.\nbut, the fact is we are not.\nSin is equal in the eye of God...\n\nWhen we lie, cheat, steal, commit an adultery, we are all accounted as sinner in front of God.\n\nIf you expect to be forgiven by God of ALL your sin, then you should be able to forgive those so called murderer and rapist.\n\nSaying that you won't forgive them is basically repeating the role of Pharisee in the bible.\n\nThe so called "holy" men refused to pardon a tax collector, a whore, and so on.\n\nDo you know God gave christ to us so that we can follow His ways? Do you realize that Christ forgave a criminal on the day of His death?\n\nIn human ways, I, too cannot forgive murderers and Rapists.\nBut, I have the Holy spirit in me that enable me to do so.\n\n\nPlease be warned though "Forgiveness" is thru grace (as we received forgiveness from the Lord thru His mercy).\n\n"Trust," however, is something that we need to earn.\nSo, after I forgive those, they need to earn my trust be4 I will allow them to be near me and my family.
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I don't believe in the Christian and Jewish God,but sometimes I hate the idea of him.He is very evil and unfair.How could a loving God punish humankind for the wrongdoings of two people?How could an all-knowing God not know that eve would eat the apple?How could God send people to hell for not believing something that has no proof whatsoever?I don't really like this perception of God.
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Unforgivable Sin -\n\nI believe that to deny the Godhead (1 Jn.5:7 below) is blasphemy again the Holy Ghost and is the unforgivable sin (Matt.12:31-32, Mk.3:29, Eph.4:30 below).\n\nThe only begotten son of God the Father (Jn.1:14 below), Jesus (the Word - Jn.1:1, Jn.1:14 below), His beloved Son (Matt.3:17 below), was conceived of the Holy Ghost (Matt.1:20 below). \n\nIn Jesus dwells ALL the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Col.2:9 below).  \n\noGod the Father\noThe Holy Spirit of God the Father and\noThe Word of God the Father\n\nIt is God the Father who conceived in Mary His very Word through His very Holy Spirit (Matt.1:20 below).\n\n1 Jn.5:7For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and THESE THREE ARE ONE.\n\nCol.2:9  For in him dwelleth ALL the fulness of the Godhead bodily.\n\nJn.1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, (Matt.1:20, Matt.3:17 below)) full of grace and truth.\n\nJn.1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (Re.1:6 below).\n\nRe.1:6And hath made us kings and priests unto God AND his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.  (Jn.1:1 above)\n\nMatt.3:17  And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son (Matt.1:20 below), in whom I am well pleased.\n\nMatt.1:20  But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost (Jn.1:14, Matt.3:17 above).\n\nMatt.12:31 Wherefore I say unto you, all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy [against] the [Holy] Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.\n\nMatt.12:32And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, IT SHALL NOT BE FORGIVEN HIM, neither in this world, neither in the [world] to come (Mk.3:29 below).\n\nMk.3:29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath NEVER forgiveness (Matt.12:31 above), but is in danger of eternal damnation:\n\nEph.4:30And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.\n\n\n\nPat (ndbpsa ©)
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In the real world, no.\n\nSubstitutionary justice is no justice at all...it's sick and it's a cynical way to balance ledgers.  Hell, you see some of that going on in the Middle East with groups killing one another:  Someone looses a child to a rival tribe's assassin, he goes and murders some other member of the rival tribe in revenge, the sibling of the murder victim goes out and machineguns a bus of the first mans' tribe...and it never ends.\n\nThe whole thing started with the notion of blood sacrifice to God to atone for sins...goats, sheep, and so forth.  Did anyone notice that when Cain supposedly offered God some of his hard-grown wheat and Abel offered an animal he had caught, God liked Abel's sacrifice more?  God had a fetish for blood, I guess.  And burning flesh too.  Until Jesus's got spilled, then he suddenly got squeamish about it.  \n\nHe didn't die for anyone's sins:  He was killed because he was politically inconvienent and became a martyr to his own cause.  That's all.  The rest of the nonsense got tacked on later.
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You have my attention....what a fabulous question!\n\nI have no answer.\n\nI have an opinion,  maybe there is no infinite punishment. \n\nHow does a person define sin anyway?
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Once a person is judged guilty and proven to be guilty of first degree murder, the punishment is clear. \n\nFor some it is a conundrum if they are Christian, an eye for an eye or thou shall not kill. For me it is simple, after the ENTIRE judicial process is seen through, and death is the penalty, then it should be followed though. There are few mitigating circumstances which would KEEP an innocent person behind bars. Not to say it doesn't happen and it would be wise to err on the side of caution, but, if you add in one very relevant fact, the confession, then the path is clearer. I say clearer because the confession has fault factors as well. In our country, the process of convicting a person or releasing them as innocent is the best judicial service in the world. \n\nWe are human and make mistakes and Goddess forbid it happen, ever, but to allow someone that is clearly eligible for the death penalty to live is a crime against the one murdered and the families they left behind.\n\nI will add a personal note here; I believe child rape should be a death penalty possibility. Especially if kidnapping is involved. I know this sounds harsh but the repeat offender rate for these crimes is so high and the devastation to the child so deep, the offender should NEVER be able to walk the street again.
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The bible says there is only one unforgiveable sin.  Blasphemy of the holy spirit....which is the utter rejection of God and His son.  If a person was a believer in Christ as his savior, his salvation was not negated that day if he chose to jump out the hundreth floor of the world trade center, rather than wait to be burned to death.  My heart still goes out to those people, thinking about them.\n\nHow you die does not determine your eternal fate.  Who you say Jesus is, determines your eternal fate.
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That is a hard one, especially coming from an 8 year old.\n\nAs a Catholic, we have the Sacrament of Reconciliation that allows us to confess our sins and have them forgiven.  However, there is one sin that can not be forgiven, and if that is committed then there is no hope for redemption, that sin is to turn your back on God, entirely.\n\nOnce condemned to Hell, there is no turning back, unfortunately.  It is hard to understand why a kind, loving God would do that, but it is based on the life that we live.\n\nJudgment day will dole out the punishment, but I do not believe that it is like a court of law where we have the opportunity to tell "our side" of the story, we are simply judged.\n\nI probably haven't helped much, and for that I am sorry.
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I think that if you do something bad you get bad Karma for it - even if you get forgiven for what you did.  \nForgiveness is not for the offender, it's for the offendee (is that a word?).  If you forgive someone, you I don't believe you get good Karma for it.  You do get to get that weight off of your shoulders, which always feels good.
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well no matter what, if you killed somebody, you're going to pay the consequences. sin doesn't matter at this point, you'de be going to jail!
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Unfair to who?\n\nForgiveness is always for the benefit of the person forgiving and not necessarily for the one being forgiven.
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To say blasphemy is a victimless crime is blasphemy all in itself. I don't consider it to be punishable by torture or death though. I don't think I've ever heard of it being punishable...not saying that in some religions it isn't. I would never kill a person for blaspheming my God. He can do that for himself.\n The only blasphemy I know to be punishable is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit because it hurts God
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murders are everywhere, under the name of god or allah or christ or yahweh or war or peace. to me there is no justified crime, its all murder.
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Even if there were no laws against it, it would still be morally wrong. You might not go to prison, but you would burn in hell for all eternity. So my answer would be no, I would not kill someone for real.