[infool7]

What worthless "reparation" could you possible offer

For instance if I broke the seventh commandment,

(thou shall not steal) and

stole your car (if you have one).

For my reparations, I could give it back,

with a full tank of gas and an oil change,

then, I could promise you that I would

NEVER do it again,

mean it and ask you

to forgive me.

Then I would ask God to forgive me.

Something like that.

If all I have to offer is filthy rags and believe me I have a garage full of them then I offer them. Somehow I don't believe our Lord will be as displeased with my worthlessness. 7

[ealgeone]

Ok, in your example you made your wrong right the person you stole from.

No problem there as that's the right thing to do.

However, that has nothing to do with "reparations" to God.

Then I would ask God to forgive me.

And that's all you can do. Nothing more. No 50 Hail mary's.

No 40 Lord's Prayers, etc.

No anything else.

Either the blood of Christ is sufficient for forgiving our sins or it isn't.

[metmom]

And all that is well and good in our dealings with each other, but does NOTHING to erase the sin debt we owe God for the sin against Him that we committed by breaking HIS Law.

Reparations only make things right between us humans. It does not make it right between us and God for violating His commandment.

James 2:8-11 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.