Why is it that if I sin for the 70 years I spend on Earth, I get punished for the rest of eternity??
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Well, Catholics have Purgatory. \n\nAnd there is one of the non-canon books of Apocrypha where Jesus goes down to hell at some point in the future and lets everyone out. In other words, he answers your question.\n\nOf course, one can say it isn't fair to say one sins for 70 years and then ceases to exist. But, at least as I see it, that's the way the universe works. You're here, then you're dead.
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It's very true. "Sin" is a judgment in itself then that faith system says we are all full of 'original sin'. It's a manipulation tool that has brought great harm to humanity throughout the centuries.
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You have to try your best to turn away from your sins.  Sometimes they take time to get out of your life like addictions.  God allows for growth and gives us times "to work our salvation out with fear and trembling".   If you just don't care and you go out carousing because you once said the sinners prayer and think you have your free ticket to heaven, then no.  You won't be going to heaven.  But if it's a continual sin that you continually work on and pray about, that's different.  God will help you to conquer it.  God bless you.
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because they don't know god. when you are sinned against it makes us feel bad and the only way for us to forgive back is to know that we have been forgiven. god also rewords you for the pain that's in your life. who do you come to know god and to become free from sin you most confess that you have sinned and that Jesus was the sun of god. this will change your life email me if you have questions mikey_benjamin
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I am sure that you are not the only person that would like this question answered. Unfortunately, we have all been in the position where we have hurt others. Some of the hurt it will take someone bigger than you or I or some shrink to heal. \n\nThe problem is that when a person hurts others like this, first one has to see that they have a problem. \nUsually it is caused because one feels a void in their life and they are trying to fill the void themselves. God created us in such a way that this void can only be filled by His Spirit alone. \nJesus can heal your home but first He needs to heal you. I am not talking about faith healers here. I am talking about healing your sin condition. He is the only one that can heal hearts and homes. \nYou have a debt not to your wife but to God. The problem is that this debt is so large that you would never be able to pay it. If your sin is not paid for you will spend eternity in hell. Jesus said that He was not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. He stood our place. When He was suspended on that cross it was for your sin and mine. all he asks is that we accept his Son, Jesus and His redeeming work that He accomplished there on Calvery where after the third day rose victorious over the grave and death. He is waiting. He asked me to share this with you. Do you know that if you had been the only person in the universe that he would have come to die just for you to free you from the bonds of sin? He did. It is at the foot of the cross that you find what you are looking for. Tell the Lord that you realize that you are a sinner and that it was your sin that caused His only Son to go to an ole rugged cross. Tell Him that you accept His sacrifice and thank Him for what He did there. We realize that we are not worthy that we deserve an eternity in hell but thank you for giving Your all so that we could live with You for all eternity. in Jesus name, Amen\n\n\n\n1Jo 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
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before you become concerned about being saved from it, realize what it truly is.  i am assuming you are a christian based on the fact that you even asked this question.  in the bible, hell is not described as a place of eternal torment for sinners.  hell is a lake of fire, yes.  but the only ones to suffer eternally are those who have already been granted eternal life.  that would be satan and his demons.  the only humans to be granted everlasting life are the ones going to heaven.  those that go to hell simply die.  the lake of fire burns up their sould and they are no more.  see the last chapter of malachi.  think about it.  why would everlasting life be such a big deal if it were also given to those in hell.  why would john 3:16 say- 'shall not PERISH but have everlasting life'.  sinners perish.  if you don't know what perish means, try dictionary.com.
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Hello,\n\nEvery thing takes time. you have to accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour and that he came down from above to pay for our sins.\n\nBeing born again is similar to accepting and repenting but, its like if you steal you can't go around staeling again. When you have the spiriti within yo , bad things would not even come to your mind\n\nTake care and God bless
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No, I don't.\n\nI am not God, the searcher of human hearts and the ultimate judge of all people. So I refrain from even pretending to know where anyone--including myself--will spend eternity. I am familiar with God's main requirement for entry into heaven--but it is in the other points of Christian theology that I am uncertain...and rightfully so.\n\nIf other Christians are saying literally, "You are [or someone else is] going to Hell," they are self-righteous and prideful, and God will bring them to account as well. How, only he knows--but rest assured that such an offense, the one of imagining oneself sitting on God's throne, will not be overlooked by the almighty.
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Well maybe you are worrying because you are wrong about your beliefs. Heaven is real, so is hell. When you accept Jesus, he takes all our worries, and fear.\n\nYour body will last as long as how you care for it. Eat right, exercise. They say that people born after 1979 will likely live to 100yrs old. Thats if you don't get cancer, or get hit by a bus.\n\nBut I would worry about what happens after you die. So many people testify that they've been shown hell. Their accounts are very similar.
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you need to find a way for the Holy Spirit of God to stop convicting you and telling you the TRUTH about your eternal life...good luck with that one\n\nhell is a place where Christians preech to you forever and ever and ever
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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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THESE THINGS do not send you to HELL,\nLying,Stealing,Cheating, Rape,Child Molestation,Drunkeness, being a Gay Person,Adultery,Fornication,so on and so on.\n\nTHIS send's you to HELL----Leaving the EARTH for GOOD  with-out getting BORN-AGAIN (SAVED), leaving the EARTH for GOOD with-out getting your Spiritman RECREATED by Accepting JESUS CHRIST as your SAVIOUR.  Period.  \n\nYOU must be Born-Again. \n\n Every-body (LOST and SAVED) sin's.  SIN (some kind's) will cut your Physical LIFE SHORT on this EARTH, other's will SEND YOU TO JAIL!!!!!(or should)so on and so on.. YES, JESUS died for our SIN's and all of the Lessor SIN,s can be forgiven.\n BUT THE SIN ADAM DID to start all of this mess on the EARTH, (and open the door to all of the lesser SIN's, lying, murder, etc.)  MESSED UP Adam's Spiritman and Adam passed this MESSED UP SPIRITMAN to EVERYBODY else.\nThe FIRST SIN Adam committed (HIGH TREASON) cannot be FORGIVEN by CONFESSING  it out like a lesser SIN.  The ONLY WAY to get rid of the RESULT's of that FIRST SIN passed on to US (the MESSED-UP Spiritman) is to ASK JESUS to COME into your HEART(Spiritman) and SAVE(Recreate) you.\nAfter that, you confess out the other stuff an JESUS forgive's you, but you WILL REAP what you have SOW. (Curse's in your LIFE, Jail time, execution in some case's  etc.) There are RESULT's to your SIN's even though JESUS will forgive you.\n\nNOW ask yourself this question ('s):\n     HOW many Alcoholic's have quit drinking cause they actually got Born-Again and are on their way to HEAVEN??? And how many time's did they slip into drinking again, and then not drinking again till the died and went to HEAVEN????\n     HOW many People who got actually got Born-Again and kept on sinning, then going to Church and not sinning, then sinning and then going to Church and not sinning on and  on till they died and went Home to HEAVEN?????\n     \n1.  THE UNPARDONABLE SIN is walking AWAY from JESUS ON PURPOSE, knowing what you are doing (not wanting HEAVEN, JESUS, the whole nine yard's) and being in a POSITION SPIRITUALLY where you can commit the UNPARDONABLE SIN.  Baby Children of GOD (Baby Christian's) CANNOT COMMIT this SIN.\n2.  THE UPARDONABLE SIN is never getting BORN-AGAIN on this EARTH befor you leave this EARTH for GOOD.\n\nThese are the ONLY 2 WAY's you can commit the UNPARDONABLE SIN.  This is the only 2 way's you can bust HELL wide open. \n\nSinning after you are a Child of GOD (SAVED) just get's you into TROUBLE down here (reap what you sow), and you will lose REWARD's in HEAVEN later.\nIF you grow enough in the Spiritual REALM to be able to COMMIT the Unpardonable SIN, thenTHERE  is one thing you have to watch out for, IF you get SAVED(and GROW Spiritually Enough) and continue in sin on and on you COULD be sucked into enough Darkness that would lead you into committing the UNPARDONABLE SIN, TO KNOW JESUS IN GREAT DEPTH's OF TRUTH, then mess with sin, on and on, could get you into Eternal Trouble.  YOU would know EXACTLY what you are doing then.  Baby Christian's can not commit it.\n\nSO, to ANSWER your Question----I don't KNOW!!!!!  Only JESUS know's how to help those People, not me, unless HE would tell me Specifically for one person at a time. EACH case is different!!!  \nBut I tell you this, GAY People outta get Born-Again, no matter what!!!!!   ALL of THEM, cause JESUS LOVE's them,and they GOT a RIGHT to go to HEAVEN as much as ANYBODY ELSE, Whether they can quit BEING GAY or NOT!!!!!!\nThere's agonna be ALOT of Children of GOD ALCOHOLIC's who didn't quit drinking, died and went to HEAVEN!!!!\nWhy not GAY's????  JESUS DIED for THEM TOO!!!!!!!!\nDon't worry bout' LESSER SIN's, get theRESULT of Adam's  BIG SIN taken care of FIRST-------------GET SAVED!!!!!!!    Thanky-JESUS    Ditto!!!!
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Earth can't be hell because it is not eternal torment. We do not spend close to eternity here only 80 years +/- and even when life sucks, there are times that are good. You're mom has wishful thinking. It can be so so SO much worse and for a whole lot longer.
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my interpretation of this verse has to do with sin.  If you repent this sin on earth, it will be forgiven in heaven.
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But your sin isn't finite, because it's a sin against God's holy standard.  He set the way things are to be, if you do something contrary to that, you've sinned against God, not a finite being.  I saw an article that said if you slap a foreign dignitary or someone in authority, that is a worse offense than slapping joe blow down the street.  Both slaps took the same time to commit, but one is a greater transgression.  So it is with God, only God's nature is infinite, so wouldn't that make the sin infinite?  If the sin is infinite, so the punishment must be.  \n\nJesus suffered an finite amount of time, but he was an infinite being (Christians believe Jesus was God).  So his sacrifice was infinite to atone for our sins that were infinite.  I'm not really well versed in the theology of this, but basic Christian teaching is that the only one who could atone for our sins was an infinite being, thats why it's wrong for a Christian to teach that Jesus was not God, but that he atoned for our sins.  Logically, it would be impossible.\n\nIf you want, email me, and I can ask my pastor, he has a Ph.D in philosophy and is a Christian.  I realize you may not agree with what he has to say, but in any case, you could hear a logical answer to your question to better understand what Christians believe.
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Something is really wrong with the heaven and hell teaching.\nAccording to Psalm 115:16, has God provided earth, or heaven for mankind?\nAccording to Psalm 37:29, where are we suppose to spend our eternity?\nReasoning:\nGod said Adam would lose the gift of life if he ate of the forbidden fruit.\nHe ate, he died.\nIF he never ate of it, if he never touched it ....where would he be today?\nOur future is on a cleansed earth.\nThat is what God's original purpose is .....and nothing will change his mind.
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Because how I spend eternity after my short stop here seems worth the bother.  \n\nIf you're betting the house on this being all there is, bro, you'd better make sure you really really enjoy it.  I don't like your odds.