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16th September 2012, 11:34 AM
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If one commits an homossexual act, but repents and walks away from it, can he be forgiven?
I ask because of the old laws that condemn sexual depravity as punishable by death. |
16th September 2012, 03:37 PM
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I ask because of the old laws that condemn sexual depravity as punishable by death.
Hi,
The new covenant which most protestants believe supercede the Mosaic Laws from the Old Testament, while condemning homosexual acts as sinful, offer forgiveness for our sins if we admit them before God and repent from them.
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16th September 2012, 03:50 PM
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The new covenant which most protestants believe supercede the Mosaic Laws from the Old Testament, while condemning homosexual acts as sinful, offer forgiveness for our sins if we admit them before God and repent from them.
Best Regards,
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I'm sorry, I didn't fully understand.
If the Mosaic Laws aren't superceded then that sin can't be forgiven?
My doubt is not that it is a sin, but if it can be forgived if it was simply a past mistake that someone trully regrets and not a life style. |
16th September 2012, 04:13 PM
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If the Mosaic Laws aren't superceded then that sin can't be forgiven?
My doubt is not that it is a sin, but if it can be forgived if it was simply a past mistake that someone trully regrets and not a life style.
If you admit your sin before God and repent of it God is faithful to forgive your sin.
"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1:9)
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16th September 2012, 04:29 PM
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Reps: 32,373,009,685,325,160 (power: 32,373,009,685,339) | | Originally Posted by sacerdote If you admit your sin before God and repent of it God is faithful to forgive your sin.
"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1:9)
So I should look at it as any other sin?
If I stopped, regreted it and confessed it, I can move on?
My trouble with that was reading the words of Paul. He shows himself very angry on the face of sexual sins, of whatever kinds, but I've also read that happened because of the situations he was presented, with new Christians abandoning their faith, so that's why he showed himself as a more agressive preacher.
This all situations made something terrible on me. For a time, my faith was something bad, that made me feel bad. That never happened before. I envied other Christians for not being able to be as pure as them, for not resisting temptation (altough I'm fully aware they sin too, as we all do). Going to church actually helped me. Seing so many people united in the name of God made me see again that our religion is something beautifull and I want to accept that God forgived me so that I can move on and one day build a Christian family.  |
16th September 2012, 04:33 PM
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If I stopped, regreted it and confessed it, I can move on?
Yes. You can move on. God bless you.
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16th September 2012, 04:45 PM
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Reps: 32,373,009,685,325,160 (power: 32,373,009,685,339) | | Originally Posted by sacerdote Yes. You can move on. God bless you.
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