I'm just curious, does it mean that no matter what you commit of sins you are still going to heaven?
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Thank you for letting me answer your question.\n\nActually your question can be actually made of (2) separate questions. I'll be brief, but percise.\n1. What does it mean that Jesus sacrificed himself?  \n   A: The bible speaks about Jesus became sin for the purpose of an exchange. He became or took our sin for the purpose of giving all humans a right to forgiveness and everlasting life with God in heaven. \nSo the sacrifice portion as the bible explains kicked in when Jesus, the Son of God lived a life on earth as a man never to have committed any sin, but accepted all sin to death for all humans. The ultimate sacrifice done completely out of love.  \n\n2. Committing sins and going to heaven?\nBelieving that Jesus is the Son of God, Died on the Cross, and Rose from the grave allows those that believe on those (3)things to have a right to ask for forgiveness. All people commit some form of sin, but the truth about sinning comes from the intension of from the heart concerning sinning. \n\nA true believer is not trying to find ways to do immoral actions. \n\nIts encouraged that any person who believes to ask for forgiveness anytime/all the time when you feel something didn't line up with what you believe to be unpleasant before God. The key that many miss is that God loves you. Please read Psalms 103. \n\nGod would not have gone through all the trouble of setting up/placing Jesus on earth then allow him to be sacrificed/killed and offer up eternal life/forgiveness only to strike/condem people to hell when they miss it.\nThe only time the bible does speak on not being forgiven is when a believer who has experienced God to fullness denies God to exist. That person had witnessed His mercy/LOVE/spirit/prosperity, yet when its all done they still say in their "HEART/Inner Thoughts" God doesn't exist(Hebrews 6 and 10). \nI hope this answers your question.
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Yes I'm a Christian.  A person gets into Heaven by trusting in Jesus as their savior and lord.  "If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."  (Romans 10:9)\n\nHow to be right with God:\n\n1)  Understand that, as a citizen of the human race, you are sinful (because of Adam's "original sin").  We are fallen creatures and nobody can attain to God's standard by works.  We're just not good enough for His holiness because we'll always be marred by that original sin.\n\n2)  Confess that sin to God.  Acknowledge that you know you've done wrong things in your life and that you can never attain to God's perfect standard on your own merit.\n\n3)  Repent of your sins.  This means to turn from doing wrong.  It's like doing a 180 from your natural inclinations.  When you know something is wrong, you don't do it.  (But if you do, just keep confessing it to God.  It's not easy to control the sin nature, but eventually you start to change from the inside out.  You start to no longer *want* to do those things that displease God.)\n\n4)  Accept Jesus into your life and let him be your Lord.  This means to learn how he lived and to pattern your life after his.  He is the perfect role model.  \n\nThe beauty of this process is that, even though we are still sinners (that is, we commit bad acts everyday), the Sin (Adam's original mark upon us) that once defined us before God is no longer seen because the blood that Jesus shed on the cross covered over that Sin and erased it from God's view.  When you trust and accept Jesus, God sees the perfect sacrifice of His only son upon your life.  And *that* is all that is required for entry to Heaven...Jesus' "bloodprint" on your life.  \n\nPeople get hung up on "the rules."  To be sure, God wants us to live righteous lives (marked by love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, goodness, and self-control), but He's first and foremost interested in a relationship with you.  He created all of us and just wants to be in relationship with His creation.  All the other stuff will follow...and we have the rest of our lives to conform to the image of Christ.  <<<  this just means patterning our lives after Christ's example.  We'll never get it all down overnight.  But God is loving and patient.  :)
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If you have accepted Jesus the Christ as your savior He will never leave you or forsake you Period. Because he remains faithful even when we are not faithful. 2Tim 2:13\nThat verse means that if we abide in Him (accepted Him as our savior and Lord) then we keep His commands, we know that He is with us because of the Holy Spirit, has been given to us
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yes, they are going to hell for not believing this: you can go to heaven if you get saved and the way that you get saved is if you believe that Jesus died on the cross from your sins, rose on the third day, and then you have to confess to God in prayer that you are a sinner and that you believe He died on the cross for your sins and ask for His forgiveness on your sins and it is THAT simple, salvation is a free gift, we can't earn it. I am a baptist who believes (let me rephrase that, I KNOW) that this stuff I said is true. Dont be shy to contact me on this by going to my profile.
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Jesus saved us from our sins ONLY if we are truly sorry and ask for forgiveness.  I don't believe not believing in God is a sin, but that person is a member of the LOST and therefore not a candidate for heaven.....)(
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You don't deserve to go to heaven. Since we all sinned, we deserve to go to hell, but by God's AMAZING GRACE and LOVE for us, He sent His only Son to die for our sins and offered us everlasting life because He loved us so much He wanted us to spend eternity with Him. Email me if you have questions or are a fellow believer in Christ at questinchrist@yahoo.com. God bless
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I will definitely go to Heaven. I belong to Jesus and He has paid the price for past, present, and future sins. \n\n\nBelieve in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved\nActs 16:31\n\nThere is salvation in no one else! There is no other name in all of Heaven for people to call on to save them.\nActs 4:12\n\nYour sins have been washed away, and you have been set apart for God. You have been made right with God because of what the Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God have done for you.\n\n1 Corinthians 6:11 \n\n\nAnd we all can be saved in this same way, no matter who we are or what we have done.\n\nRomans 3:22\n\nWhoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.\n\nMark 16:16
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Wow a Christian using scripture in their thoughts on dogma- novel idea that I hope continues. I totally agree- Ephesians 2 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast. Kinda hard to argue with that scripture too huh? But we must see-as James points out- that good works are a result of our faith. Not that  we need to do them to get into Heaven-but if we follow Christ- and He was a servant to all- then we will do the same. Great point!
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Once saved, always saved has nothing to do with not repenting. It is the belief of some Christians that Jesus will keep us from falling into so much sin that we fall away from grace and lose salvation. I don't see this really taught, but some believe it.\n\nJesus said to the adulterus woman "I do not condemn you either. Go and sin no more." The point is that once we accept him as saviour, we are to conform our lives to his image by his Spirit. We must turn from sin, not continue in it. We are not given a liscense to sin just because we are saved. The Bible says in several place that homosexuality is sin and no homosexual will enter the kingdom of Heaven.\n\nHere are some references in the Bible about homosexuality.\n\n'Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.'\n(Leviticus 18:22)\nhttp://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=lev%2018:22;&version=31;\n\n'If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have\ndone what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will\nbe on their own heads.' (Leviticus 20:13)\nhttp://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2020:13;&version=31;\n\nBecause of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their\nwomen exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way\nthe men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed\nwith lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men,\nand received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.\n(Romans 1:26-27)\nhttp://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%201:26-27;&version=31;\n\nBefore they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city\nof Sodom-both young and old-surrounded the house. They called to Lot,\n"Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so\nthat we can have sex with them." (Genesis 19:4-5)\nhttp://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2019:4-5;&version=31;\n\nDo you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God?\nDo not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor\nadulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves\nnor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit\nthe kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)\nhttp://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%206:9-10;&version=31;\n\nknowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for\nthe lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for\nthe unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of\nmothers, for manslayers, for fornicators, for sodomites, for\nkidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing\nthat is contrary to sound doctrine, (1 Timothy 1:9-10)\nhttp://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%201:9-10%20;&version=50;
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It only makes sense to me that if you truelly are repentant of your sins, then you would STOP PERFORMING THAT SIN instead of having to repent for it again and again every week. It is in human nature to do what Believers call "sin" - we will probably never stop doing that for as long as we exist - therefore, we will never "repent" completely. If one was a true Believer in every sense of the definition of their respective religion, then they would follow the dictates taught therein and, therefore, would never sin - but sinning is human nature, therefore they/we will not stop sinning, ever, so we cannot ever truelly repent. Yes, I'm going in circles, but so does anyone who is trying to make universal sense of such a subject as this, which should qualify in an explanation in and of itself.
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God's only spoken commandment in the bible is "be you perfect even as I am perfect"\nwhy do you think our souls are eternal? its going to take a loooooooooooooooong time to reach spiritual perfection but it is never too late to start.
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Yes, I do because the Bible says there is and I believe the Bible.  Our life down here determines what crowns we will receive up there.  Everything you do down here in this life  reflects what you will earn up there.  That is why good works or things you do for others matter.  They are not the basis for getting TO heaven but they will determine what crowns you will get once you are IN heaven...Most people don't realize that this life is a dress rehearsal for heaven.  They are really going to be disappointed that they did not tell their friends about Jesus when they knew him as their personal Saviour and did not let anyone else know. The reason that you do "good" things is out of love for Jesus, not because you are expected to.  We are all sinners, Christians have just asked for forgiveness.  They will continue to make mistakes but the key is to ask for forgiveness whenever you realize you have done something wrong so you do not break that relationship you have with the Lord.
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No.  As the bible tells us God's grace is eternal.  Though we remain sinners after our tranformation in Christ we can and will never lose our salvation from Him.  It is what Romans teaches as the "Ordo Salutus" or order of salvation.  once we have been saved through Christ Jesus, "Justified"  we become Santificed through His will and love.  And when he returns we become glorified with new bodies and souls.
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Dear Bill, I would Like to explain why a person goes to hell and Howwe can escape the consequences of hell. I would like to ask you a few questions.............\n\nHave you ever lied (even once--fibs, white lies, etc.)? Ever stolen (anything--the value is irrelevant)? Jesus said, "Whoever looks upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery already with her in his heart." Have you ever looked with lust? If you have said "Yes" to these three questions, by your own admission, you are a lying, thieving, adulterer at heart; and we’ve only looked at three of the Ten Commandments. Nothing you’ve ever done is hid from His holy eyes. Will you be innocent or guilty on the Day of Judgment? Listen to your conscience. You know that you will be guilty, and therefore end up in Hell. That’s not God’s will. He provided a way for you and I to be forgiven. \nHe sent His Son to take our punishment: "God commended His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." He was bruised for our iniquities. Jesus then rose from the dead and defeated death. \nYour own so-called “goodness” can’t get you into heaven any more than mine could.  Jesus is the only way to Heaven. He is the "Door," the only "mediator." There is salvation in no other name, and if you will repent (turn from sin) and place your faith and trust in jesus, God will forgive you of your sins and grant you eternal life. A person dosent go to Hell because they are foolish, but raher because they have trasgressed the Law. Please, turn from sin and trust in the savior today.\nGod Bless\nWDJD
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Sin IS inevitable.  The point is that you keep trying to do what is right and ask God to help you.  He loves you---he's not going to abandon you if you are doing your best!  As long as your heart is sincere, just live your life doing what you know is right, and you have nothing to fear.
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Yes, they will go to heaven if they truly repent. It is hard for us to understand but that is God's plan. If we accept Him into our lives, even at the last minute, we will go to Heaven. This includes everyone.
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Yes, Somewhere along the way some people have been misled about the 10 Commandments...They are not unforgivable sins..everyone has and/or will break one or all of them. All we have to do is repent (admit we were wrong, ask forgiveness and make an honest effort not to do it anymore...\nWhere does this belief come from? I had a friend tell me he would never be in heaven because he had broken one of the 10 commandments...God knew when he created them we are not perfect, they were meant to show us our sin so we could repent.