purposeinlife said:
i guess i do have another question... am i still a christian if i sinned? i feel horrible that i do sin but i just can't stop from sinning, if you know what i mean...
Hi Purpose,
The reason you feel horrible after you sin is because the Holy Spirit is drawing you back to Christ for forgiveness. When we sin, our fellowship is broken with God. Notice I said "fellowship". We are still saved and God never stops loving us. But when we sin, we are rebelling against Him and that breaks our relationship until we turn back to him for forgiveness again. Think about your relationship with your parents. When you have an argument or you disobey them, the relationship is strained until you reconcile. It's the same thing with God. Here are some scriptures that may help you:
Romans 7:15-30:
15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[
1] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
1 John 1:8-10
8If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.
God Bless you and Welcome to the Christian Family!
WashedClean