So a believer can commit a sin like say lying (not confess of it) and then die and still be saved?
Yes they can and eternally grateful put it very well.
I can understand where you are coming from because as a Christian young in the faith, I battled with guilt
and my relationship with God, wasn't so much a relationship, it was more like I was cowering in my socks
waiting for God to zap me every time I did something wrong.
But over time I have discovered the freedom we have in Christ and the grace we have in him.
The difficulty with your current way of thinking is that how do you know you have managed to
remember every single little thing you have done wrong and asked for forgiveness. There are the
really obvious big things, but what about the little things, the little white lies, the times you sin
in anger etc. Or what about the sin of omission, things we should do but we don't.
In short how do you know you have covered everything? What If just one little thing is overlooked
and you therefore don't confess it because you can't remember it. Does this mean a person goes to hell
even though they have accepted Jesus as their saviour and accepted that free gift of life.
I can see why people get caught up in this way of thinking but it's not of God.
Once you know the truth, really know it in your heart, it will set you free and there will be
a whole new way open to you insofar as your relationship with Jesus. It will no longer
be a relationship based on fear, it will be based on love and deep gratitude. A true deep
sense of the mercy and love of God.
When that happens you will have that closer walk with Jesus, you will
do the right thing, not out if fear of getting it wrong, but out of love.
I hope you don't mind but I will pray for you that you will indeed come to know
the depths of the gift of salvation with all its full meaning for you.
Actually that is something we all need prayer for, as no matter how deep we have
gone, there are always new depths to go as we experience that continual renewing
of our mind.
God bless.
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Galatians 5:1-6,16-26 NKJV
[1] Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. [2] Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. [3] And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.
[4] You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. [5] For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. [6] For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.
[16] I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. [17] For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. [18] But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
[19] Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, [20] idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, [21] envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
[22] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, [23] gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. [24] And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. [25] If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. [26] Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.