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To: Tennessee Nana
This quote from the article confuses me: The miracle of forgiveness is available to all of those who turn from their evil doings and return no more, because the Lord has said in a revelation to us in our days, "go your ways and sin no more; but unto that soul who sinneth [meaning again] shall the former sins return, saith the Lord your God.” (D&C 82:7). Have that in mind, all of you who may be troubled with a burden of sin. (Harold B. Lee, Stand Ye in Holy Places, pp. 184-185.)

Does Jesus teach that once you are forgiven of your sins, if you are not perfect and sinless from there on in, all your past sins will be lumped together in a big wad and dumped on your head...again?

I'd like to see the actual Bible reference for that. What is the Christian belief here? How about this?

But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.

7When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."

8Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

11"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."

35 posted on 09/05/2008 5:04:24 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Sarah Palin -Jeri Thompson 2012)
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To: greyfoxx39

Forgot the reference in post 38...John 8:1-11


36 posted on 09/05/2008 5:06:45 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Sarah Palin -Jeri Thompson 2012)
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To: greyfoxx39
Does Jesus teach that once you are forgiven of your sins, if you are not perfect and sinless from there on in, all your past sins will be lumped together in a big wad and dumped on your head...again? I'd like to see the actual Bible reference for that.

Danger Will Robinson!

Ez 33:18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein.

37 posted on 09/05/2008 5:19:15 PM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: greyfoxx39

Does Jesus teach that once you are forgiven of your sins, if you are not perfect and sinless from there on in, all your past sins will be lumped together in a big wad and dumped on your head...again?

I’d like to see the actual Bible reference for that. _________________________________________________

There’s Bible references about something else happening to ours sins...and how God “deals” with us...

He has not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. Psalm 102:10-12

Who is a God like You, pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy. He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. You will give truth to Jacob and mercy to Abraham, Which You have sworn to our fathers from days of old. Micah 7:18-20

Also...

Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” And Nathan said to David, “The LORD also has taken away your sin; you shall not die. 2 Samuel 12:13

Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back. Isaiah 38:17

I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins. Isaiah 43:25

For behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave an inscription on it,’ declares the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. Zechariah 3:9

Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Hebrews 9:26


43 posted on 09/05/2008 5:39:45 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana (McCain/Palin Now that's a ticket that deserves a tagline)
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To: greyfoxx39
Does Jesus teach that once you are forgiven of your sins, if you are not perfect and sinless from there on in, all your past sins will be lumped together in a big wad and dumped on your head...again?

Gosh!

I don't know!!


KJV Matthew 18:21-22
21. Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
22. Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

84 posted on 09/06/2008 5:35:35 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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