Must Christians Ask For Forgiveness Every Time They Sin?
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That is false. Jesus was judged for our sins - not us. He took all the punishment due. We will be judged on how we lived our Christian life for the basis of rewards or loss thereof, but the sin issue for Christians is over.
Again, Jesus took all of our sins, and exchanged them for His holiness, righteousness, and sinlessness. If we now have to ask forgiveness for sin, then Jesus would have to ask as well. Because what He has given us would thus be flawed.
Again, Jesus took all of our sins, and exchanged them for His holiness, righteousness, and sinlessness. If we now have to ask forgiveness for sin, then Jesus would have to ask as well. Because what He has given us would thus be flawed.
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We must maintain a clean robe for G-d cannot and will not tolerate blotches on our garment. The only way that can be accomplished is for periodic...daily for me...cleansing thru confession and asking for forgiveness.
Please...don't cast G-d's word aside. We have no authority to re write The Bible.
We must maintain a clean robe for G-d cannot and will not tolerate blotches on our garment. The only way that can be accomplished is for periodic...daily for me...cleansing thru confession and asking for forgiveness.
Please...don't cast G-d's word aside. We have no authority to re write The Bible.
I do too . . . it is not asking forgiveness, i.e. repentance for salvation but it is asking forgiveness to restore the relationship. When our children do wrong and don't fess up to it . . . although still our children - that wrong standing between us puts a strain on our relationship. Sort of like this - We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. . . . If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. - Our "fellowship" (relationship) is with the Father and with his Son - the forgiveness is so that our "fellowship" (relationship) remains tight.
True he has already shed his blood for the remission of my sins when I repented - those past sins are forgiven. Now that I am in the family of God and I have a relationship with God and his Son - I need to keep that relationship healthy just as in a regular family. Someone in your family or a close friend does wrong towards you - that relationship suffers until an apology (asking forgiveness) is made and then that relationship restored. 2 Peter 1:9 says our past sins have been forgiven; also Romans 3:25 - Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; . . . I also understand that without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins - but like you said - that blood has been shed - no need for him to come back and die again and again - once was enough. 1 John is written to believers and concerns our relationship with God and Christ. I want my relationship with God to be close and with nothing in between us straining that relationship.
The Bible says Jesus died for all sin - the sins of the entire world - not just the ones you committed before you were saved. When Jesus died, all of your sins were in the future. If we have even a single sin attributed to us and unforgiven, we are condemned, lost, cut of from God and have not the Holy Spirit.
If what you're saying is correct, every time we sin we would lose our salvation until we asked for forgiveness which would restore us again.
If Jesus paid for all sins, then all sins are forgiven. That's the whole point. Our fellowship cannot be severed due to sins that no longer exist. God has forgotten them and thrown them as far as the east is from the west. ALL of them.
If what you're saying is correct, every time we sin we would lose our salvation until we asked for forgiveness which would restore us again.
If Jesus paid for all sins, then all sins are forgiven. That's the whole point. Our fellowship cannot be severed due to sins that no longer exist. God has forgotten them and thrown them as far as the east is from the west. ALL of them.