Am I doomed?

Nathan Arnold said:

what about this:
If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left,

i keep falling into temptation because I cant compete with it it just is too much I need to work on the sexual immoral sins not that I touch but I look at girls with lust

the thing that you had a measure scared me into never intentionally sinning ever but would if temptation is too much that i like the lust can i ever stop or change my mind on that

and what on earth is the 'sin unto death' i heard people who died a day after when they received the knowledge of the truth and just refused this guy named pastor tim told me a bunch of people died after rejecting

should i be playing video games, lets face it man never created it demons did to get the whole earth to worship satan in the end game because nothing can absolutely corrupt humanity rather than fantasy in reality

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On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." (Mark chapter 2, Luke chapter 5 )

You turn, like the prodigal, and go in the right direction: confession and repentance.

Look and see:

5 "This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. 7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us." 1 John 1 NIV

Even under the more difficult situation of the Old Covenant, this was enough: to repent and turn. How much moreso now, under the grace from Christ!

Even in the Old Covenant, He would forgive those that turned:
21 “But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die. 22 None of the offenses they have committed will be remembered against them. Because of the righteous things they have done, they will live. 23 Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign Lord. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?" Ezekiel 18 NIV (the entire chapter is on this)

How much moreso now!

We are saved by Grace, through faith!

And, for our deep need for aid to follow Him, Christ gave us an invaluable prayer, which you can pray everyday. I've found I do much better when I rely on Him, and pray as He said --

Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 6:5-15 - New International Version

Nathan Arnold said:

I feel like I hate everything and disgust it but love hearing the bible I have no idea what it is it just came upon me idk if god hardened my heart I fear or if im just hating the world because if you love the things in the world the love of the father is not in you

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God forgives those who repent in their hearts.

If your heart was truly hard, you wouldn't feel guilty. We are all guilty, and if we don't block the spirit, we can feel our guilt when we do/have done wrongs. But through confessing and repenting in our heart to God, we are forgiven, and the guilt washes away, is removed from us, and we are freed. Praise our Redeemer, Christ Jesus!

Condemnation is from the enemy. And Scripture is one of his favorite weapons. This is thinking that we are lost and without hope. He desires us to despair so that we won't accept the help and forgiveness that God so freely offers in His great love and mercy.

Conviction is from the Holy Spirit. This is a hatred of our sins, a desire to turn from them, and wanting to turn to God instead. This is Holy and good, and the first step to accepting and receiving God's forgiveness.

God loves mankind and desires each of us to repent, turn to Him, and be saved. Any voice or thought that suggests God hates you or will do evil to you is lying. Don't listen to it.

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Condemnation is from the enemy. And Scripture is one of his favorite weapons. This is thinking that we are lost and without hope. He desires us to despair so that we won't accept the help and forgiveness that God so freely offers in His great love and mercy.

Conviction is from the Holy Spirit. This is a hatred of our sins, a desire to turn from them, and wanting to turn to God instead. This is Holy and good, and the first step to accepting and receiving God's forgiveness.

God loves mankind and desires each of us to repent, turn to Him, and be saved. Any voice or thought that suggests God hates you or will do evil to you is lying. Don't listen to it.

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That's right, but it can get confusing!

This question of guilt can be confusing, and too many are lost, because they think they should never feel guilty, even if they do wrong, since they have been falsely told there is nothing for them to ever do, no need for confession/repentance.

But over and over we are told in the New Testament to repent, and it's 100% required, without condition, that we do.

But when we do repent, we are forgiven, and the guilt is lifted and goes away! That's amazing grace!

Nathan Arnold said:

I feel like I hate everything and disgust it but love hearing the bible I have no idea what it is it just came upon me idk if god hardened my heart I fear or if im just hating the world because if you love the things in the world the love of the father is not in you

i feel attraction to the bible

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I believe that is all part of the spirit working on you ( the question is which spirit ). In Christ, we learn, in time, to love those around us and things around us but to hate the sin in those people and things. At first we aren't good at discerning that. Have you asked Jesus into your life ? I ask because it's important, not for the purpose to condemn. But when we first receive The Spirit there is much time of wonder to follow and then a kind of backing away that can scare some people until they understand..

Nathan Arnold said:

a kind of backing away that can scare some people until they understand..

please tell me more

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That statement is about the time of salvation. In other words, a person ( any person) just recently asked Jesus in, you receive the Holy Spirit. A time of spiritual wonderment comes, you feel alive in the scriptures and in Jesus, you absolutely know something is working in your heart. Then one day that sort of backs down, it's not so alive and sometimes people think the Holy Spirit has left them. Some can even fall away in the faith, the devil will be glad to accommodate that ! In reality it's now time to start digging deeper into the faith and the bible. It's as if you have completed orientation day and now it's time to get into academics.. I say this as a born again believer, we have seen it many many times in churches and even within this forum.

Seeking help to explain repentance, a top result was the Billy Graham page, and since evangelism itself is the call to repent and come to Christ (Acts 2:38), and more than once (1 John chapter 1, James chapter 5, or the example of Peter if you look), it makes sense to look at how Graham explained what repentance is, the central thing he helped people find -- that felt need to turn away from our previous attachment to sins, and instead come to Christ, and be changed.

When we repent, we are forgiven!

That good step of admitting we have sinned, confessing. All of us. And the spirit helps by making us feel a sense we have done wrong.

"...None of us wants to accept blame for our sins....

"What is repentance? It might be well to notice first what it is not.

First, repentance is not penance. Penance is the voluntary suffering of punishment for sin and does not necessarily involve a change of character or conduct. People who lie on a bed of spikes or throw themselves headlong on the ground are doing penance, but this act does not mean that their guilt has been absolved.

Second, repentance is not remorse. Judas was remorseful over his sin of betrayal of the Son of God, but his shallow regret led to suicide instead of to God, because remorse is not true repentance.

Third, repentance is not self-condemnation. You may hate yourself for your sinfulness, but self-condemnation only opens wider the wounds of guilt and despair. We should hate our sins, not ourselves. Hate your false ways, hate your vain thoughts, hate your evil passions, hate your lying, hate your covetousness, hate your greed, but do not hate yourself. Self-hatred leads to self-destruction, and it is wrong to destroy that which was created in God’s image. Repentance is not self-condemnation.

Then what is repentance? Repentance is not a word of weakness but a word of power and action. It is not a self-effacing emotion, but a word of heroic resolve. It is an act that breaks the chains of captive sinners and sets heaven to singing.

The Bible says, “There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance” (Luke 15:7, NKJV).

There are three elements in genuine repentance. First, there is conviction. You must know what is right before you can know what is wrong. If you get on the wrong road, you will never know it until you have some knowledge of the right road. You stray off the highway, and first you miss the familiar markings, the customary scenery, and then suddenly the conviction strikes you that you have lost your way. There can be no turning back unless first there is a conviction that you are going the wrong way.

Spiritual conviction is like that. It is a signpost planted in the heart saying, “Stop. Look. Listen! Danger ahead!” The Spirit of God, your conscience and your better judgment all join to warn, “Detour! Change! You’re on the wrong road!” If you have this conviction, be thankful. God is waving the red flag, directing you to a proper path. Before men and women can come to the cross of Christ and have their sins forgiven, they must be convicted of their sins, and that convicting work is done by the Holy Spirit upon the soul.

The second element of true repentance is contrition. The Bible says, “The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves such as have a contrite spirit” (Psalm 34:18, NKJV). Contrition, or “godly sorrow,” as it is called in 2 Corinthians 7:10, is not a shallow sentiment nor empty emotion. It is a sincere regret over past sins and an earnest desire to walk in a new path of righteousness.

Peter, that rugged man who meant so well and erred so often, when he denied his Lord “went out and wept bitterly” (Matthew 26:75). He was never more lovable nor more admirable than when he stood there alone, apart from the crowd, with his frame trembling as the hot tears of contrition ran down his cheeks. In his heart was a noble resolve to live for the One who would die for him. Brokenness, with its godly sorrow for sin, is the second step toward true repentance.
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True Repentance, Real Change

Nathan Arnold said:

guys I just have that disgust look at everything like its dogpoop am I evil or something

a kind of backing away that can scare some people until they understand..

please tell me more

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We are not to love/admire/worship the world and the stuff in it and it's glamor and such. And we are evil (in the time before we are following Him fully), as Christ Himself said, so that is indeed a valid thing to realize. It's a good step to stop following the world, and be disgusted with all the wrongs.

Nathan Arnold said:

dave can you tell me how to get rid of this disgust

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Nathan, it all starts with the love found in Jesus Christ. This is not an an earthly kind of love but it is agape love ( from God), it's His Love. It only comes to you over time through the Holy Spirit. You can not produce this kind of love or the peace that it brings. It all starts with Jesus Christ. With it come discernment and you learn to discern the evil in man, to hate that evil but love the man., or the woman if that so be.

Start with asking in Jesus Christ and repentance, then asking the Holy Spirit to see that person you think you hate or that thing you think you hate , to see them through the eyes of the Holy Spirit rather than your own.. It brings patience with people. The goal is to purge the hatred in your heart and to fill it with love. Only God can do that and you must come to Him for it, through the Son. The Holy Spirit will show you things through the discernment, some things are not worthy of your love, some are. Some things have turned demonic others not.

Understand that being born again ( and Jesus said we must be to see heaven), we then are not of this world but live in it. Our world is with Him for eternity and we put in our time here..

How to think of the world is a finely discerned thing. Yes, at a certain point, it's good if it all pales to you, seems not worth your time, and you have no love for it.

But as we grow in Christ, we learn not to utterly despise creation. It was, after all, created by God and was (at the first at least) all good in His eyes. With some growth, we can begin to see God's hand in creation, and delight in His wondrous works. But that usually comes later.

If you are new to thinking of the things of God, it is good that, by contrast, the world is worthless in our eyes. Because compared to God Himself, it is. And we must make a choice.

I wouldn't obsess over how you view the world, as long as you aren't passionately desiring it. Those are the kinds of things that fall into place. Simply seek God and a right relationship with Him, and these others things will generally take care of themselves.

Nathan Arnold said:

I gave into temptation before I did that I didnt feel this way do you know what I can pray for I feel god has left me

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Again, I have to ask if Jesus was ever asked into your life. If not then you never had the Holy Spirit to begin with. On the other hand if you have asked Jesus into your life then scripture says that He never leaves you nor forsakes you. You may leave Him and walk another life ( the old footprints in the sad picture comes to mind where someone thinks God left them but the sand shows their own footsteps leaving Gods path, as God walks on in a straight line never changing).

Listen don't be deceived, Jesus has to be asked in, He won't claim you His if not asked in.. He will stand and knock at the door but only you can let Him in. Jesus is the gateway to heaven, you only pass in through Him. Your salvation, your forgiveness hinges on Him and Him alone.

By the way, we all give in to temptation here and there. Confess it to God and ask for His forgiveness. What God wants from you is to walk in alignment with Him, from all of us actually.

Nathan Arnold said:

yeah I wanted to be saved by sin but then I sinned after I asked like a day after and I feel abandoned and not open to god in prayer

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What do you mean you wanted to be saved by sin ?

Being raised in a church or hearing some about Christ, or much, or thinking Christ is good or true about things -- these are not yet what He said is the way to find Him, to come to Him.

He told us this way:

Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 7:7-12 - New International Version

But how do we seek?

Bible Gateway passage: Jeremiah 29:13-14 - English Standard Version