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To: SouthernClaire; MHGinTN

I would like to know what God does to you and/or what happens when you sin.


I would say that my relationship with God suffers at that moment. I committed a sin and I feel guilt (I transgressed His law). So, as a REPENTANT Christian, I confess my sin and ask God for forgiveness and the power to resist evil (sin) and live a sinless life in harmony with God’s plan. That sin, and every other throughout my life, is recorded. But, I have asked forgiveness and am REPENTANT. At the JUDGMENT, I have an advocate/intercessor/mediator in Jesus Christ. And, it is my prayer that I will be counted worthy to enter heaven and that my sins will be covered by Christ’s blood.

1 John 2:
1My 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:

2And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

3And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

4He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

I like this:
https://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-Advocate.html

But Jesus stands as the Advocate between our repentant hearts and the law. If His blood has been applied to our lives through faith and confession of Him as Lord (Romans 10:9–10; 2 Corinthians 5:21), He pleads our case with the Righteous Judge. We may imagine the conversation going something like this: “Father, I know this one has sinned and violated our commands. He is guilty as charged. However, you have said that my sacrifice is sufficient payment for the debt he owes. My righteousness was applied to his account when he trusted in me for salvation and forgiveness. I have paid the price, so he can be pronounced ‘Not guilty.’ There is no debt left for him to pay” (Romans 8:1; Colossians 2:14).

Jesus is our Advocate when God first accepts us into His family as His children (John 1:12). And He remains our Advocate forever. First John 1:9 says that, when we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive our sin and to cleanse us from it. As His followers, we will still sin. But, when we do, we are commanded to confess that sin to God. Confession is an agreement with God about how bad sin is. We stand guilty before Him with no argument and no justification of our own. Our Advocate steps before the Judge, and together they agree that, because we are “in Christ,” no further punishment is necessary. Jesus has already made sufficient payment to redeem us.


349 posted on 08/21/2021 1:27:17 PM PDT by Philsworld
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To: Philsworld

Oh. So you do what the rest of us do when we sin.

You keep inserting the word “unrepentant” or some form of it in your posts as if we are unrepentant of our sin when we screw up just like you and then we ask for forgiveness.


351 posted on 08/21/2021 2:30:51 PM PDT by SouthernClaire (God Bless America)
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To: Philsworld

It is tough to respond to you, because you like every ‘Christian” in the last 1900 years has no idea why God sent Christ to earth...priests don’t know, ministers don’t know, etc, etc. Most cite 1st Corinthians 15:3, which was true at the time, but not anymore. Jesus did not die for any of your sins, and he didn’t shed any blood for your sins. He died only for the Jewish sins as Paul stated and which is confirmed by Isaiah and Daniel. GotQuestions cited the epistle Romans, but Paul didn’t write the epistle -— Lucius, the Bishop of Cyrene forged the epistle and most of the new testament scripture. The ascension is his fiction, as is the transfiguration, and there is no Second Coming because Christ already had his Second Coming. Forgiveness of sin comes from the Lord God alone, not Jesus who is not the Lord or God. Per the First Commandment, it is as a sin to have other gods before Him, so don’t put Jesus before God. Lucius caused this corruption by forging most of the new testament. I have gone on a long time here and didn’t have sufficient time to explain why God sent Christ. Reply to me using “private post” BELOW and I will give you a full answer.


363 posted on 08/21/2021 4:23:41 PM PDT by Sipicaknobius (sipicaknobius)
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