Now how many of you really believe that??? How many of your were ever taught that??? I would venture to say none of you...
I do not expect to have a clean slate but if i do not forgive those who trespass against me i can not expect my sins to be forgiven.
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“Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to.
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Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’
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In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.
At the same time i do understand that this may not cover the meaning of what the pope was saying.
1John ch1
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
John puts it two ways
have no sin
have not sined
it refers to past sins and present sins
I believe Christians will be completely rid of their sins only when they die and their bodies are turned back to dust.
Rom_4:8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Have no sin...
Have not sinned
Will sin in the future...