(30-07-2024, 06:52 AM)Ali Imran Wrote: This is another topic that is interesting, once saved, always saved doctrine.
But I guess you need not worry about sinning because you believe all your sins are already paid for.
If someone was rude to you, insulted you, and later comes to you and apologises, and you can sense that he is sincere, surely you can forgive him, right or not? Even if you touch a girl at the wrong place, she can also forgive you if you sincerely apologize to her for that moment of lust and indiscretion. Of course, most would not let it go and would call the police. Your marller can forgive you too, even after you've shouted at her, if you go up to her and say Emak, saya salah, tolong maafkan saya.
If you sin against God, He can also forgive you if you confess and ask for His forgiveness. Christ is not going to die over and over each taim any of the 8 billion peepur in this world sins.
There was only one occasion when God had said Sin = Death. Only once - at the Garden of Eden.
Adam sinned and the penalty was paid for by Jesus. This is the only Sin which God cannot forgive, which must be settled because God does not go back on His Word. He had said Death, and Death it must be, or else God would be a rather fickle-minded one lorh.
Even if God forgives all our sins of telling lies, mocking Christians, worshipping the wrong god, stealing, etc, we still end up south of heaven if the Mother of all sins, the penalty for the Original Sin is not paid for. The Death and Resurrection of Jesus is not about forgiving sins
per se but Redemption and Reconciliation with God.
Nowhere in the Bible is it written that after having received Christ, we have a divine license to commit sins..
Further, when we've received Christ, God's Holy Spirit dwells in us. The desire to sin is not there, only the desire to please God. However, for as long as we are still breathing recycled oxygen, the old man is still in us, and this old man of ours is very capable of doing some very nasty things. The apostle Paul understood this dilemma. The spirit is willing, the flesh is weak. This is when we go to God and ask for His forgiveness, and it is possible to go to Him because the Way has been laid for us through Christ.