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Where is the verse about people sinning because they know God will forgive them?
This is a major point of Romans 6. After arguing that the coming of the law increased the number of trespasses, and that subsequently "grace abounded all the more," Paul warns those who ...
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Why did Stephen have authority to ask God to forgive the sins of his nonbelieving executioners?
If someone trespasses against me, personally, I can dismiss that trespass and require no remuneration, no restitution, no resolution. I can simply dismiss the event and give it no consideration ...
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Can any sin be forgiven? (According to the teaching of the Catholic Church)
The Catholic Church does indeed believe that if the sinner fulfills certain conditions, any sin can indeed be forgiven. Paragraph 982 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church states:
There is no ...
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How do Protestants understand the "unforgivable" sin?
Protestants basically fall into three main camps, claiming that the unpardonable sin is:
attributing the works of the Holy Spirit to the devil; or,
refusal to repent even to the end of one's life; ...
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How do Trinitarians explain Jesus' response to the scribes and Pharisees at Luke 5:20-24?
In Trinitarian theology, Jesus is both God and Man, so the title "Son of Man" isn't incorrect in that regard.
Throughout Matthew, Mark and Luke, Jesus generally encourages the "...
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Can a person be forgiven outside of confession? (Catholic)
Yes, if one has perfect contrition, which Fr. John Hardon, S.J., defines in his Catholic Dictionary as:
PERFECT CONTRITION
Sorrow for sin arising from perfect love. In perfect contrition the sinner ...
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Where is the verse about people sinning because they know God will forgive them?
Jude 4 says:
I say this because some ungodly people have wormed their way into your churches saying that God's marvelous grace allows us to live immoral lives. The condemnation of such people ...
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Where is the verse about people sinning because they know God will forgive them?
There are a few verses in Romans that might be what you're thinking of:
Romans 3:8 ESV And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation ...
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Are there examples of God forgiving without sacrifice?
Hebrews 9:22 answers this question definitely:
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and
without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. (ESV)
The author ...
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A story in the Bible where Jesus tested the faith of a sinner?
This question does not really fit the criteria for here, but here are a couple of suggestions anyway. First, your recollections of that 4-year-old sermon may be partially incorrect, plus the speaker ...
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Are our sins of the future forgiven? (John 20:23)
The OP asks:
Catholics say that our future sins are not forgiven...and say that John 20:23...uses the past, i.e. "forgiven", so ask how future sins can be forgiven. What information there is on the ...
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Can a person be forgiven outside of confession? (Catholic)
CCC states that unbelievers can achieve eternal salvation- I would assume forgiveness is necessary for this, though I don't understand how this is reconciled with the biblical account.
CCC 847
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How forgiving is God?
If you are referring to the Christian God of the Bible, there are several points to keep in mind:
We cannot make bargains with the God of the Bible. We cannot say, "I'll stop doing A if you give ...
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Who is an "enemy" in the context of this video?
The speaker is Michael Oh, the founder of Christ Bible Institute Japan. He is of Korean heritage but grew up in America.
I found a video (plus transcript) that explains more fully his animosity ...
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Where is the verse about people sinning because they know God will forgive them?
When I search Google for your exact wording "sinning and knowing it's wrong, but sinning anyway because you know God will forgive you" the one of the top results identifies Hebrews 10:26-31:
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How do Trinitarians explain Jesus' response to the scribes and Pharisees at Luke 5:20-24?
First, when Jesus uses the phrase "the Son of Man," He is using that phrase technically, as we use "the Messiah" technically (whereas it meant 'king' since it means 'the anointed ...
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According to Catholics at what moment did the ransom sacrifice go into effect?
Catholicism does not necessarily believe that there was a single moment at which Christ redeemed us:
Christ’s whole life is a mystery of redemption. Redemption comes to us above all through the blood ...
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Why did Stephen have authority to ask God to forgive the sins of his nonbelieving executioners?
Who says Stephen has to have authority to ask God to forgive the sins of his nonbelieving executioners?
I think Stephen expressed what the Lord Jesus said at Luke 23:34, "Father, forgive them; ...
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How do Trinitarians explain Jesus' response to the scribes and Pharisees at Luke 5:20-24?
The Trinitarian stance is that Jesus Christ was unarguably a man, “Son of Man” being his most-oft-used designation. It does not make sense for your question to add, “If the Pharisees were wrong in ...
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Why can't God forgive a sinner without having to kill Jesus the righteous one?
Basically, it is because God is Righteous and judges totally righteously, which means he cannot sweep sin under the carpet and dismiss it. Now, a capricious, man-made idea of a god predominates pagan ...
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According to Baptist theology why doesn't Satan surrender?
First, "Baptist theology" is too general a term for a specific question which itself is a rather peripheral issue that is unlikely to see a uniform answer even from within one denomination. ...
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Protestant Interpretation of John 20:23 in Light of Matthew 9:8?
Jesus says,
As the Father has sent Me, even so I send you.
so the question to start, How did the father send Jesus?
John 12:49
For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who ...
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If someone is forced to take the punishment for sin (Jesus), doesn't that mean that God never forgives?
Not only is God loving, merciful and forgiving, He is also just. God will not allow sinful deeds to go unpunished:
He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the ...
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How do Lutherans have their sin forgiven?
Lutherans have their sins forgiven after confession to a pastor who can absolve the penitent. Here is an extract from an article that discusses the subject at some length:
The Lutheran Church ...
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What is the Biblical basis of the idea that men can be given authority to forgive sins?
What is the Biblical basis of the idea that men can be given authority to forgive sins?
St. John speaks of it in his Gospel (John 20:19-23):
Jesus Appears to His Disciples
19 On the evening of that ...
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Should we forgive everything?
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Yes, we should forgive everyone. It's a command that we can do with the help of the Holy Spirit. Following God's example who forgave Israel FIRST, we need to forgive our enemies in ...
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How do Protestants Receive forgiveness for post-Baptismal Sins?
I know from my Lutheran days that Lutherans have a confiteor at the beginning of each service, and that they believe this confession (with repentant heart) is sufficient to bring about reconciliation ...
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What would be an orthodoxly Christian, biblically based response to a concern that a Christian could die without repenting of a given sin?
Query 1) What is the fate of those who believe in Jesus Christ but who die without repenting of something they never discovered was sinful (Simon, Acts 8, given as an example.)
This example is of one ...
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What did Jesus mean by seventy times seven?
In my experience, Jesus is generally understood to have used “seventy times seven” in poetic opposition to a small number: “seventy times seven” means “an impossibly large number”.
Matthew 18:21-22 is ...
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