Question for Christians about Gods forgivness..?
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Catholics have the Sacrament of Reconciliation, which is the invisible forgivness of God become visible in His visible Church on earth.\n\nWhile it is correct and right to pray for forgiveness to God directly, Catholics also understand that our sin is not just against God in Heaven, but also against the Body of Christ on earth, aka the Church and its people.  Our sin turns us away from relationship with God and relationship with Church and relationship with our neighbor.\n\nSo when a Catholic goes to Reconciliation with a priest it is like having a conversation. It isn't like the laundry list of sins you see on the TV, but is just talking about our struggles, shortfalls, and sins. The priest gives advice on many things such as how to break bad habits, where to gain support to keep from sin, what Scripture is beneficial, and how to make penance.\n\nPenance is our word for where you are leading with your question. It is the idea that after you have repented which includes telling God that you have sinned and are a sinner, telling Him you know the hurt it has caused in the relationship, telling Him you are heartily sorry for your sins, and asking for the grace to never commit them again. So after repenting, and it being sincere, you are forgiven by God and you become right with God again. However, the consequences of your sins are still out in the open. We believe that although your sins are forgiven, the ultimate completion of showing your repentance is through an act of love in the likeness of Jesus Christ. This completes things just how God would like them to be.  Because He doesn't see it fit to repent and then go out into the world without a faith ACTING in love.\n\nSo penance is the love part afterwards. If you sinned by not giving the Lord your God all your heart, mind, body, and soul, then penance may be sitting down for some time to pray with the Lord.  If you sin is, as you put it, raping 5 women then there will be a penance which involves giving true love to these women you have wronged.  The priest helps us with understanding what is a good penance. Through their experience, priests will tell you they've heard everything in the book, so I'm sure they would have a better answer for the grave sin you refer to.  It is also their office to assume the role of Christ as judge of repentance as Christ gave them that power when He told His apostles that whatever sin you bind on earth is bound in Heaven and whatever sin you loose on earth is loosed in Heaven.  Christ knew His apostles and their successors weren't perfect, but that is why He gave them His Holy Spirit so that in exercising this right of office, it would be Him acting through the priest.\n\nSo in my faith we do believe that you must not only apologize to God directly, but He also desires you apologize to the Church, and to the person if it warrants. Because your sin is not within you, but becomes damaging to all those around you. Of course God will minister to those women you mentioned with a divine love and care that they deserve in their suffering. BUT God knows that by forgiving the heartfelt repentance of the one who raped them He is demonstrating to that man the ultimate love He has for Him. That although this rapist is due a penalty, God relieves it out of love for him.  God know that unless this man is released from His sin, there is NO CHANCE that this rapist will have love enough in his heart to go and tend to the wounds he has made.  By forgiving the rapist, he is now free to love with his whole self.  This is part of how the consequences of sin are repaired.\n\nIt all comes from Jesus and the ultimate love He had to conquer sin. It is imparted on us when He conquers our sin.\n\nI cannot comment on Christian faith outside of the Catholic Church. I have many friends who are Presbyterian and non-denominational. I have heard them confess their sins to me and others in spoken prayer. We will often address those sins and offer advice on ho
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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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God did forgive Adam and Eve.  He is perfectly merciful, so He always forgives.  But, God is also perfectly just, and justice demands punishment for sins.  It's like when David had a man killed so he could marry the man's wife.  After he repented, God forgave him.  But, He still punished him by taking is son.\n\nIt's the same for everybody.  Every person must suffer punishment, whether in this life or in the next, for all of their sins.\n\nA good Christian would forgive the man who killed his child.  But, justice demands that the man go to prison for his crime.\n\nOne more example:\nWhen a child misbehaves, his parents always forgive him.  But, they must punish him to make restitution for the offense and to teach him.  God is our Father and He does no less for us.  It brings to mind the scripture verse, "Blessed is the man whom God chastises".\n\nI hope this helps you understand how forgiveness and justice work together.
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All you you have to do is ask for forgiveness and He will throw the sin into the sea of forgetfulness. God does not hold grudges. Once you accepted Jesus it was forgiven.
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yes, forgive him/her if he/she is sory of what she/he did...\n\nif God forgives us for every day we do wrong (sin), so we too...
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The whole getting saved during the tribulation thing is set in stone, but it is no stone any human has ever seen. It all depends on what God's plan is. Ask Him. He know everything. Don't be afraid to wait a seemingly unending amount of time to get an answer. You might get none. Still, that is no reason to stop believing.
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Numbers 14:20 \nThe LORD replied, "I have forgiven them, as you asked. \n\nMatthew 26:28 \nThis is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. \n\nThe answer to your question is yes, if you ask.
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forgiving is hard sometimes but in the BIBLE forgiving is what God did for us But i don't think that you can forget some important things in your life depending on what u r trying to FORGET.
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Shows you, first of all, that God reaches out to all people to give them salvation, no matter what they've done.  Including murderers and rapists in prison. \n\nIt helps you to see that God can forgive no matter what it is that you've done.  \n\nAnd it shows you how radically a life can be transformed from darkness to light.  If God can do it with them, He can do it just as easily with you and me. \n\nAnd it gives you an opportunity to show Jesus to those that society and even some in the church have thrown away.
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I don't know if you're a religious person, but since your question is about forgiveness, I'll answer it from a Christian perspective; but please understand that you don't have to be religious in order to benefit from the wisdom of the Bible.  I do not consider myself to be Christian, but I still use many things I read in the Bible to help me through challenges of the spirit such as the one you have describe.\n\nFirst of all, we should ALWAYS forgive others.  Jesus said to forgive people seventy times seven times, which comes out to be 490 times.  If you have to forgive someone more times than that, they are probably so evil that it's not going to matter whether you forgive them or not; at that point your best best would bwe to just get the hell away from them!  LOL\n\nBut I think what he meant was to forgive as much as you possibly can.  But you sound very young to me- it sounds like there's not a whole lot you can do OTHER than forgive; sadly, we are basically powerless in our youth to change the behavior of others, so you'd better forgive wholeheartedly and do it RIGHT.  The following information is lengthy, but it will help you learn all you need to know about forgiveneness:\n\n- This is not an optional action on our part, but rather it is imperative to our own well being that we forgive others.\n- Most Christians understand that this is not always an easy task.\n- For some, there have been people in their lives which have wronged them severly.\n\n- Though it may be a process, and it may not happen instantaneously, we must be willing to take the first steps toward forgiving others.\n- As long as we continue to harbor bitterness in our hearts toward someone else, we allow that individual to have a controlling factor in our lives.\n- There are a number of occasions where unforgiving Christians lose their relationship with God because of what someone else had done to them in the church.\n\n- There was once a man who lost his relationship not only with God, but also his children and people in the church because of his bitterness toward others. He basically went around feeling sorry for himself all the time.\n- To forgive means to "send away". In other words, to not hang on to the wrong doing.\n\n- When you forgive someone, it means that you are not holding that sin against that person.\n- Therefore, you're not focused on how you can get back at that person.\n- You're not praying that their boat will sink or that their plane will crash.\n- As a matter of fact, you actually begin to pray for their salvation and deliverance.\n\n- Understand that when you forgive someone, it doesn't mean that you have to re-establish a relationship with that person.\n- It may, by God's will, lead to that and that's great if that's what God desires.\n- In the verse, there's no mention that you should stop praying and go find that person to let them know that you forgive them.\n- Release the thought of anger and bitterness and hurt unto God.\n\n- Forgiveness does not mean, by the way, to forget.\n- Trying to forget is merely an attempt to hide something.\n- When you hide something, someone will eventually find it.\n- We're are to deal with he hurt and send it away.\n\n- Jesus didn't just preach this. He lived this.\n\n(Luke 23:33-34 NKJV) And when they had come to the place called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the criminals, one on the right hand and the other on the left.Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." And they divided His garments and cast lots.\n\nFORGIVING OTHERS HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND AND RECEIVE FORGIVENESS\n\n(Mat 6:14-15 NKJV) "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."\n\n- It seems as if God's ability to forgive us is contingent upon our ability to forgi
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God is the most important person in my life. I also know that you can go to heaven if you get saved and the way that you get saved is if you believe that Jesus died on the cross from your sins, rose on the third day, and then you have to confess to God in prayer that you are a sinner and that you believe He died on the cross for your sins and ask for His forgiveness on your sins and it is THAT simple, salvation is a free gift, we can't earn it. I am a baptist who believes (let me rephrase that, I KNOW) that this stuff I said is true. My name is Matthew James Needham and don't be shy to contact me on this. my email address is im_proud2b_a_christian@yahoo.com
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You are correct. God is not capable of simply forgiving someone, as you and I are; he must kill someone in order to do it. In the Old Testament, he required that animals die every single day so that he could forgive the Israelites. This worked just fine for thousands of years, and then one day God just wasn't satisfied. I guess the novelty of animal sacrifices wore off and he needed a human sacrifice. But not just ANY old human sacrifice, this one had to be special, so he sent his Holy Spirit to Earth to impregnate a teenage girl (does that count as sex with a minor?), then he arranged for the resulting offspring--his own son--to die.  Only then was God able to forgive everyone.\n\nOr was he? People are supposedly forgiven for every bad thing they ever did or will do, yet they are required to beg forgiveness, anyway, every time they do something bad. And if they do a lot of bad things, they get sent to eternal punishment...even though God forgave them.
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Makes sense to me.  Some think they have sinned too much and can't be forgiven when the scripture says flat out they can and will if they just accept the forgiveness and repent.  They doubt God which is exactly what Satan wants you to do.  Think you are too far gone to get any forgiveness.  Is Jesus' sacrifice enough or would He have to hang for longer for you to think it is enough to cover YOUR sin?  Maybe not the best example but could you think of a better one?
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First of all, I apologize on behalf of Donald Shaw.  I thought his response to your question was absolutely terrible, and very un-Christian.  \n\nI was dismayed that, instead of sharing his faith with you and trying to bring Christ to you, he chose words that would serve no other purpose than to alientate you and push you away.   Trust me, not all of us Christians are like that.\n\nNow, in response to your question:\n\nGod can (and does) effect His forgiveness in any way He wishes.  He's God.  He can do whatever He wants.\n\nSo why did He have His Son suffer and die for our sins?  \n\nOne reason is that this was predicted in the Old Testament.  The OT speaks of a "suffering servant," a human Lamb of God who -- like the lamb sacrificed each year by the ancient Jews on the Day of Atonement -- would die for us and take our sins with Him. \n\nSecond, human nature being what it is, it's not enough for us to read something (like "your sins are forgiven") and then believe it.  We human beings need visuals.  We need proof.  For us, seeing is truly believing.  \n\nAnd seeing Christ suffer and die the worst form of execution in the history of capital punishment -- for us! -- is truly believing.  \n\nWhy else would anyone, let alone the Son of God, willingly put Himself through that?   He certainly didn't do it for nothing.  He definitely didn't do it for Himself.  \n\nHe did it to conquer sin and death.  And for those who believe in Him, that's what He accomplished.
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That is an often-asked question, and a fair one.  The distinction that needs to be made is that God is not somehow uncaring about suffering.\n\nSuffering comes from the original sin.  Sort of a snowball effect.  It began with the fall of man in the garden of Eden, and has gathered speed throughout thousands of years.  Illness, sorrow, death; all sin, are fallout from sin entering the world.\n\nThere will come a time when these things will be no more; when Jesus comes to rule and reign on earth.  Until He does, as He told us "you will have tribulation on this earth"..meaning, we will suffer.\n\nGod cares about us and our hurts, that is why, first and foremost He sent His son to redeem us...and it is also why we have God's spirit to comfort us, in all circumstances.
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there should be no limit on forgivness. we are all human and screw up. does Jesus put a limit on how many times He will forgive you for your sins? no He doesn't so why should we. if the problem is big enough to where you can't trust him anymore then you probably would just be better off finding someone you can trust. there can never be unconditional love if there isn't trust. so basicly it depends on you how many times you want to forgive.
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I am in total agreement with you.  If you ever want Biblical proof of God's abiding love, just recall Jesus' parable of The Prodigal Son.  Each one of us is the Son, and God is the father.  All God wants us to do is come home, and all will be forgiven.  It's what Jesus died for--payment for the sins of the world for all time.