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To: 2harddrive
>>Not if you die after sinning but before Confession. Then, you go to HELL for all ETERNITY.<<

Wow, Catholics live a risky guilt ridden life! Have they not heard that Jesus is our advocate and has imputed His righteousness to us?

1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

Our sins have been forgiven. All of them.

James 5:15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

God knows that the sin nature of this body is still with us. Jesus is our advocate and stands in the gap for us.

1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

Paul explains that while we are in this body there is a conflict between body and spirit. It's God who delivers us. He looks at our spirit knowing that while in this body we are still imperfect. But spiritually we have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus.

Romans 7:15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. 21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

True believers can rest assured that if they put their full faith and trust in Christ and not in themselves He is faithful to forgive. When we confess our sins we confess all of our sins known and unknown. No one can know every sin they have committed. The fear that Catholics seem to have is unfounded. God knows our sins and He has already forgiven us.

1,821 posted on 10/16/2014 6:17:13 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus info)
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To: CynicalBear; 2harddrive

Romans 5:18-21

Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:1-4

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.


1,826 posted on 10/16/2014 6:41:31 AM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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