Can God forgive us for being wrong?  Can God NOT punish us for being wrong?
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I think you may be looking for a specific answer here, and I'm sure I'm not going to be the one to give it. \n\nYes, God can NOT punish us for being wrong, but he also CAN punish us.  He would rather not.  [If you were a Christian believer, this is where I would tell you that Jesus died for your sins and took that punishment upon himself, but you aren't looking for a religious lecture, are you.]\n\nSo, my answer is, "Yes, God can forgive us for being wrong."  and "Yes, God can NOT punish us for being wrong."\n\n****But he also CAN punish us.****
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God can't intervene.  If god intervenes he cannot judge us as he has directly altered our experience placing himself at fault and if anyone after that be damned he himself shall be damned.
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Why are you mad at God?  He knows best.  There have been times in my life when I thought  that God didn't know what's best for me.  For example, when I was engaged to the "woman of my dreams" whom I had been with for three years and then she broke the engagement and canned me.  Well, turns out she was cheating on me......God knew best.  Plus, he had someone else waiting for me who is a million times the woman that the old tramp was.\n\nYes, God forgives if you are angry, but please trust Him.
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Actually, this question is easily answered by bible doctrine. NO, God cannot. There are many things God can't do. Who ever said God can do anything? God can't hate, at least not literally. God can only "hate" in the sense of an anthropopathic analogy, such as when He was said to "hate" Esau. God can't lie, break a promise, die, hurt, be sad, allow a saved person to enter Hell, allow an unsaved person to enter heaven, or fail to provide logistical grace support to a believer. God can't be unjust, wrong, weak,  stupid, not present, and He cannot change. He cannot fall in love( because He is love 24/7). \n\nBasically God cannot do anything that would violate His essence. His essence is Sovereignty, Righteousness, Justice, Eternal Life, Love, Omniscience, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Immutability, And Truth. These 10 characteristics describe perfectly the 3 members of the Trinity, and no one else. I'm glad God is bound by who He is.\n\nYou don't need to defend yourself against Christian bashers. God is not worried about them or threatened by them, why should you be? Keep the Faith, Bro!
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Maybe it is not a question of forgiveness, but a question of whether God has given up, and lets us all to our own faith.\n\nI otherword, he gave up when he saw the inperfection of his creation, and went away to do another creation somewhere else.\n\nIt therefore also stands to reason, that he could not be perfect, as he was able to create impefect beings like ourselves.
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That is like asking if he can create a wall that he can not destroy. And if He choose to make a mistake, then is it a mistake? Any time the question is "Can God..." then the answer is going to be an uneducated guess. We don't know.\n\nNow if the question was, does God make mistakes?, then the answer is no. He is the only being that is perfect and infallible. \n\nMost peoples answers to this question says more about themseleves then it does God. Our opinion of God does not effect Him, but it does effect our life and our existence after this life is over.
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God can forgive enyone enything except blaspamhy of the holy spirit which means forsakeing or denying the holy spirit. which means a non beliefe in God/the holy sprite. you undertand.
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You are wrong, I'm sorry.  We ARE to judge actions according to the faith, and chastise our brethren when they sin.  We are never EVER to judge their heart however.  That's God's job.
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God does not stop loving you no matter what you do. God loves killers and homosexuals and republicans and everyone else.\n\nI do not understand why God chooses to punish us for sinning, but rest assured that he does not do it out of hate. God wants us to make our own decisions to worship him or not because God is very insecure and needs the unforced love of his creations to feel whole, but just as you can love or a child even when they have done bad, the sky daddy loves you.
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God is perfect goodness. The cost for sinning just one time is eternity in hell. The only way to get forgiveness of sin is belief in the ONE pure sacrafice that God has given us. It's not something you have to bargain for, it's just there waiting for you to take it. If you are a good person, but don't have the sense to take salvation when it is offered so freely then it's your fault. God does not send anyone to hell, they send themselves by rejecting him. It is not his will that anyone should perish.
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We have to remember that God is a just God.  He will not hold a person responsible for rejecting Christ if that person never had the ability to accept Him.
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God can touch or heal according to his will, and often does.\nWe cannot know all things as God does - but he never wills harm to anyone, it is not possible for him because of who he is.\nThe reason we have awful things, wars, hunger, poverty, mental illness - is because we chose to rebel against God, to sin, and we live in the consequences of sin - in a broken world. Again, the terrible things of this world are not God's desire or will.\nHe would not create things to harm them - his way is love, forgives, grace, mercy.
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Pray to God to forgive you
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Yes, I used to have this view of God as being a Judge, always watching, waiting to catch me doing something wrong so to punish me. A basic teaching of most religions. When I decided I would never be good enough and decided to be as bad as I could I learned about God. I learned that he is love and full of grace and forgiveness. I learned that his most admirable quality is is forgiveness. That when I sin, I am hurting him and when I am sorry he is happy.  So while I regret that I took "the wrong way" in a way I am grateful I did as I learned what God is really about.
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You get past this by taking the opportunity to FORGIVE him.  Many times, the hardest thing we can do is forgive when we believe someone is so much in the wrong.\n\nAs you grow in your faith, you must always remember that part of you remains human...and vulnerable to temptation.  \n\nHow can you listen?  Heed the word and not the messenger.  God is able to use the most evil to do His will.\n\nHeld to a higher standard?  If they are truly called by God to that position, then they are there by God's will.  Who are we to know if his (T.H.) was a true calling or just his attempt to mask his inner desires/lusts?  \n\nTry to look at this as YOUR opportunity to openly profess your faith in the one true God, and salvation thru His Son, Jesus.  Nobody claims to be perfect when becoming Christian.  Just forgiven.  \n\nThe things that others call us remain the same.  Sometimes the noise is louder than other times.  Sometimes not.  Don't be distracted by them.\n\nPray for him and his family.  And forgive him with all of your heart.
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Yes you are right. God is faithful to forgive if you only ask for forgiveness. But you must first believe that He is God. You must confess that you have sinned against God and are ready to receive the gift of salvation through faith.
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yes, forgive him/her if he/she is sory of what she/he did...\n\nif God forgives us for every day we do wrong (sin), so we too...