IF (Please read IF) you believe in God, aren't you ashamed of all your sins against God yesterday?
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In G-d there is no shame. I don't care about points, & you don't care about people. All you care about is offending.\nWhat is your answer? \n Question IF (Please read IF) you believe in God, aren't you ashamed of all your sins against God yesterday? \nTo be considered for best answer you must venture a guess on how many fundamentalist christians well quote the bible and tell me I am a blasphemer and that I am going to hell, 2. You must guess how many fundamentalist atheists can't read the word IF and will tell me how dare I empose my religion on them and how its ok for them to not believe in God and how dare I tell them they are going to hell, 3. You must guess how many people will reference watchtower, 4. You must guess how many people will send me hate email or hate instant messages for this question, 5. You must guess how many people will tell me since I believe in evolution how stupid am I because the big bang is stupid.\n\nIn short, to be considered for best answer, read the blasted question.
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Do you believe in God?
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Someone asked this yesterday.  I'll tell you what I told them.\n\nIf I am wrong about being an atheist, and I stand before god, I will hold my head up. I'll say "I looked for you harder than anybody I know. I read the bible in its original languages. I prayed for hours and hours. If you know all, you know how sincerely I looked. If you can chuck me into hell, knowing that, then I go with a clear conscience. Because I wouldn't want to share eternity with a being who could torment ANYone for eternity. Let alone someone who looked for him so hard."\n\nI would rather go to hell with a clear conscience and a pure heart than go to heaven because I chose out of fear.
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I am talking about myself here: Yes i do cry when I think of a certain sin I did when I realize the gravity of that certain sin.but the point is to learn and move on and not live captured in guilt. We are human beings and we are bound to sin. I just know that God is merciful and trust as long as I do good and try avoiding that sin again all will be forgiven because I have faith in His mercy. Tears don't come out of fear but rather out of love, coz even on human basis if you love some1 u don't like to upset him.
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Boy, would I feel foolish for living a good Christian life.\n\nSeriously, I would feel good knowing that people like you would make it to heaven.\n\n(no offense intended, I seem to remember that you are not a believer in God, and that was my intent - that non-believers like yourself would make it to heaven)
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are you religous? if so that could be why. Maybe u feel quilty because some people still believe that it is wrong.
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I know there is a God. I didn't arrive at this conclusion by my intellect, for human intelligence is limited. Give up on trying to figure everything out, for common sense itself should tell you that you can't know or understand everything. This is not a matter of the head, but of the heart. Ask yourself this: "If God is the truth, do I really want to know the truth?" Our sinfulness makes us afraid of a holy and righteous God who we feel must demand an accounting of us His creatures. Atheists say they don't believe in God, but I don't believe in atheists. If they don't believe in God, then who are they so mad at? They claim wisdom and knowledge and call believers simple, but I see atheists as being extremely smallminded and limited. Did atoms and microbes not exist until some human came along who was smart enough to detect them? How small these people's reality must be! How futile and pointless their existence! I commend you for at least being openminded enough to ask? How foolish it is to think that one's ignorance is evidence! Thanks for not being that way, wisdom is not beyond the grasp of one such as yourself. There is a God; He is beyond human comprehension; He is absolutely holy, righteous, and frightfuly just. His awesome majesty and power is terrifying and he is completely unapproachable by vile, prideful humans. Remember I said that it is our innate sense of this reality that drives some to deny His existense out of fear of the truth. They can't face themselves and their guilt, and they can't face a righteously angry, holy, and just God whom they rightly think will demand retribution of them. What they don't understand is that this same God is also infinitely loving, kind, gracious and merciful, and that He paid the penalty for their sins and removed their guilt which was keeping them from Him. How? He gave us His only begotten Son Jesus Christ who took our sins and guilt upon his holy and innocent self and was put to death so that we may go free. Believe this, make claim to it as a FREE GIFT from God, confess it to Him and to others, then walk in peace from now on with Him, always trusting Jesus' sacrifice as your justification in God's eyes, not your own merit. Then keep on learning more of Him and growing spiritually.><>Sir Brian
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I think that we all struggle in our faith one way or another. Questioning God's existence doesn't really cross most of our minds. We may question why He allows things to happen or we may even question our own Christian walk and our relationship with God. My pastors -and I've had a few in my life -haven't been perfect. In fact there was one who was my Dad's boss that treated his underlings shabbily and used the church vehicle for personal business. I think he may've even taken some of the better donations given to the church for his own. I do know that he was eventually caught by his bosses with his hand in the cookie jar and in adultery. He was speedily fired. As for weird things in a worship service? I recall visiting a Charismatic service to see what it was like. I met one of those pastors who held rather rambunctious healing services. You know the type.; they call you forward for healing even though you haven't volunteered or asked for it. He claimed -a few times- to be given a word of knowledge about some type of secret sin in some person's life. I found this made me extremely uncomfortable because I do not believe that God would humiliate an individual in this manner. Nor do I think that Jesus would compel anyone to come for healing. God is a Gentleman, and He never forces Himself on anybody. Neither should His servants
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GOD Loves You Just As You Are.  He didn't wait for us to get our lives together first.  All of our sins (yes, every single one of them) are forgiven through Jesus Christ, the son of GOD.  All you have to do is to believe that Jesus has forgiven you for your sins and you will go to Heaven. That's it. Even if you don't "feel" like you have been forgiven, the fact is you are.
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You are assuming a lot.  I'm neither sinful nor full of shame, I live in a world of light and I try to walk with God everyday.  It's a joyful walk, not one of shame and desperation.\n\nI feel I must follow God, otherwise my life would be in the potty by now lol.  I need His hand on my life, or I'll just mess it up very bad.
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man, i feel bad for you. you're playing on the wrong team. God is so real. it seems like everyday he's proving himself (to me anyway). i mean there are times i look back and it could have only been God that got me through. God gives me peace, protection, and he is a great provider. My first year in college I didn't have a job or a dime to my name, but God made a way for me. He made is so that I was never hungry, and that I never wanted for anything. to you God might be an "invisible friend" but for me he is my best friend. the bible is a guide that tells us how to live. and if people live right they dont have to fear God. he gave his only son for us, do you really think that he wants to destroy us? to cripple us with fear? No, thats not him, he is loving. I'm sorry if you feel that God has failed you, or that he's not real, because you're missing out.
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I know a lot of people are moral without believing in God. \n\nBut for me, for most of my life I didn't have much of a backbone, and I'm fairly certain I would have fell into some vices because of peer pressure if it hadn't of been for that last thread of 'no, this is against my religion' keeping me away from it.\n\nThanks
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If you don't believe in God, how can He be immoral?\n\nI'm not mad at you, I'm just mad.  Does that still work for you?  'Cause I'm happy to share.  Not happy, exactly.\n\nWell, I would be happy if I weren't so mad.
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Christ is the only one who has offered to pay my sin debt to god!!! those other so called gods or religions, offer no other way to stand in front of a holy god forgiven!!!( debts payed) For all have sinned and come short of the glory of GOD!!!For the wages of sin is death but the gift of GOD is eternal life through our LORD JESUS CHRIST  if we could be forgiven of our sin by being good or by our good works,how good would we have to be,or how much good works would we have to do? Jesus said I AM THE WAY,THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE, NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME. My friend the tomb of the LORD JESUS CHRIST is empty! Buddha,and all those other men that claimed to have the answers to eternal life, their bones are still in their thumbs waiting for judgment day! They needed to be saved themselves! they and many others reject GOD'S GRACE in offering his only son's life to pay our way home. Please my friend don't make this tragic mistake yourself!!! CHRIST said today is the day of salvation. (no man is promised tomorrow)Get saved today!!! Get alone with GOD ask him to forgive your sins, tell him you except his sons free gift(eternal life) he paid for on the cross, and you want to serve him all the days of your life and he will give you the power to do it,by faith!!! Pray these things in the name of JESUS CHRIST, AND YOU WILL BE SAVED!!! GOD BLESS!!! P.S. Don't trust other gods!!
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As a Christian I would like to answer your question by saying...\n\nThere is not justification.  God alone is judge... as well as Savior\n\nYou just can't judge a person by the category they fall under.  Each interpersonal relationship makes a difference, wouldn't you think?\n\nAnd even though I've been called ignorant, despicable, stupid, and a few other negative things today by some folks here on Yahoo Answers (gosh, could that be considered 'being slandered'), I want you to know that I love you all.  \n\nBy the way, I don't think I've ever met any of the folks who have said those negative things about me and other Christians.  I wonder how it is they stamp those labels on my head without ever having met me.  You really ought to get to know me more before you call me those things.  You know... I'm feeling rather JUDGED right now, and not by any Christians.  :)  That's ok though, because Jesus told me not to take up any offenses.
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This sounds more like a love poem to someone you love rather than to ask for forgiveness. Yes I have regrets. I regret my selfishness. I envy those who can feel love and acceptance from god. What have I got to believe in? Not believing in god is lonely, but I can't.
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I wish I could say yes.\nI am ashamed of myself and all the times I have told myself that I would change.\n\nI am trying day by day to live a life that Jesus would be proud of.