Christians believe in repentance of your sins. The idea is that no one is perfect, that we are all sinners. In the book "Conversation with God" the idea is that humans in their sins are looking for experiences, in order to know what good is.

That only works if you're Catholic. They have confession. Just say a couple 'Hail Marys', and you should be good!

You must know that this idea is total and absolute garbage. It isn't just believing in Jesus that Christians believe will get them into heaven, but I'm sure you know that and are just pandering to us idiots who are dumb enough to respond to puerile questions.

Afraid not. Jesus said "Your sins are forgiven..go, and SIN NO MORE". I know that and I'm not even a xian.

That can follow from the belief that Jesus died for your sins. But like the trinity and the claim that Jesus is God, you’ll find that the Holy man is innocent of all these claims. This is what he said in Matthew 19:17 “ Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.” It is much later after his departure from earth that his teachings were turned upside down. The Holy Qur’an (HQ) which came a few centuries later tried to restore his teachings. For example HQ 18:110 asks Mohammed to “Say: I am only a mortal like you. My Lord inspireth in me that your God is only One God. And whoever hopeth for the meeting with his Lord, let him do righteous work, and make none sharer of the worship due unto his Lord.” Translated from the original text by Mr Pickthall.

You let us know what happens how about that

This is the problem that I have with the Protestant doctrine of one being saved entirely by grace. If faith in Jesus Christ is all that one needs to be saved, then one can lead the absolutely worst, most corrupt life and still gain the same reward as the person who strives to live the best life that they can. All the bad person has to do is accept Jesus as his savior and he can continue to commit the worst kinds of evil. This view, I do not think is consistent with the scriptures. James addressed this question in the second chapter of his epistle (http://scriptures.lds.org/james/2/14-26#13). Here James pretty explicitly states that faith, all by itself is not sufficient for salvation. Faith must be justified and perfected by works that back up one's faith. One can't simply say that one believes in Jesus as one's Savior and be saved. One must also strive to live a good life. None of us is perfect. So, each of us is constantly falling short of perfection. Therefore, each of us must keep striving to improve ourselves and overcome our weaknesses and repent every time we fall short. Only then can the Savior's atonement make up for the difference between our imperfect realities and the perfection that we are seeking to bring us salvation. If we are not at least striving to do good, then God has no obligation to forgive us.

If you are truly saved then you should not have the desire to do such things because the Bible says that if we are in Christ Jesus we are a new creature and that old things are passed away and all things become new. I hope that this helps. :) -In the Master's service. Thank you and God bless you!

Not to answer a question with a question, but : If you really believe in Jesus, could you kill, steal, etc...?

Almost everyone who's heard the Christmas story mishears what the angel said to Mary and Joseph: "You shall call His name Jesus, for He will save them from their sins." We read that and think "He will save us from hell." That's not what it says. He will save--separate--us from our sins, and after a lifetime of doing that, will separate us from even the ability to sin by taking away the desire and opportunity in heaven. If you don't want to be separated from your sins, and show it by a sinful life, you won't be separated from them when you die, either. "Welcome to the bad place. Smoking or non-smoking?"

You can't do these things and still expect to go to Heaven, just because you believe in Jesus. After all Satan and his angels believe in Jesus and they're going down. The Bible says that Hell was created for them. The reason you can't expect to go to Heaven along these lines is because it takes more than just belief in Jesus to make it there. It takes repentance and acceptance of Jesus in your life.

of course they can...we all have to work out our own salvation within our own hearts... david was one of a few men in the bible who was " a friend of God`s". a high honor.. and yet david was a horrific sinner..killed thousands of men. had his best friend and general killed for his wife. slept with another mans wife , got her pregnant. on and on... and he was forgiven yet not all who call Him Lord,and proclaim Him and even do wonderful miracles, will go to heaven...its an age old dilemna... youll have to work this one out for yourself..with fear and trembling

believing for me is following the practices as well... you can't say you believe in Jesus and you follow Him and yet you dont follow His teachings...

Your question is one that Paul puts as a hypothetical in the Book of Romans Ch 6 1What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. 5If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. 6For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with,[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. 8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. 14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. ======================== What you have asked is like saying "Now that I am married, I can have as many affairs as I want and still remain married". Just as marriage requires a rearranging of priorities, and the limiting of your partners to one, so the Christian life will naturally lead to a shrugging off of the things that don't bring glory to Jesus. I mean, He died for you: why would you want to live a life that does not tell people what He has done. Paul again talks about this in 1 Corinthians 12: But each one should be careful how he builds. 11For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. 14If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. 15If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames. ============ There is a sense that our "works", though they do not save us, do, however, have significance. Here they are described as "gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw", straw clearly being the works of the one who glorifies His saviour least. It seems that that person may, indeed be saved (by Christ's works, certainly not his own!) but just by the hair of his chin. And he will get the chance to see what he did with the great gift Christ gave him. Don't rest on your laurels. In Ephesians 2:10 it says "For we are Christ's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Don't let us be like the man in the parable, who buried his master's gift in the ground, then expected to be rewarded for faithfulness. It isn't about the least we can do to get into heaven, it's all about the most we can do in thankfulness for Jesus' saving death.

if you believed in jesus, you wouldnt want to do those things.

It's amazing how many people care so much about hell. I don't believe in god or hell, but either way I'd fear the worldly judgement of those actions. Those don't wait until after you're dead to let you pay.

You would be playing a VERY dangerous game if you tried that. Jesus says 'you are My friends if you DO as I command'. Faith without works [evidence] is dead. God isn't stupid. He knows what is in your heart. People who live like Hell are fooling no one but themselves. btw, Satan 'believes' in Jesus. That's not enough. You have to surrender your will to His.

(not a christian) but from a christian standpoint i can't understand why you would do that and play russian roulette with fate like that if you truly believed in what your religion (whatever it may be) told you, i have yet to find one that says "go ahead and kill, you'll still get to heaven" i guess if you truly believed but then majorly screwed up like that, you'd have a lot of repenting to do

I believe the Catholic religion has something called "extreme unction" which I am told means that no matter how crappy/lousy you were, if you repent on your deathbed you will be forgiven. I never understood that..but there it is. You can do whatever you want to do..just don't wimp out when you are hit with the consequences of your actions..whether here or "there" or wherever.."every action has an equal and opposite reaction" that is true in Physics and I think it is also true in one's path through life in general. :)

NOPE, because if you had TRULY ACCEPTED JESUS AS YOUR SAVIOUR, you would not have the slightest inclination to do such things...Jesus Believed in the 10 Commandments too...HE Obeyed the 5th..right before HE died...HE never broke one.....

exactly!

church dogma, crafted by hundreds of humans over thousands of years, is just what it is, in my opinion. it is what humans have chosen to create in order to disseminate what was originally a truth, or, perhaps, an innocent misunderstanding. these elements are then placed before people (usually men) who have vested interests, seek greater power that might be obtained by the adoption of certain principles of faith. those power mongers are now dust. but, we are stuck with articles of faith that don't always fit together, such as the paradox which you propose. as a scientist, i've always been told to go to the original source. in this case, when the teachings of our church don't mesh, then we need to take time to open up, sincerely pray to God, and meditate quietly, waiting for truth. that's my suggestion... again, great question.

Sorry. It doesn't work that way. God knows if you truly believe by your actions. If you truly believe, you would act as such. I can't remember the exact reference, but there is a verse that says "Not everyone who says to me 'Lord Lord' will enter the kingdom of heaven".

Faith and [work] are complementary. One without the other is a lop-sided monstrosity. "Faith" doesn't consist in "believing" that another shall bear your burden for you. No one can save another except as a guide and inspiration. For everyone holds in his/her hands the means of "salvation". No priest, no Jesus, no Muhammad can bear sins for you. It is a doctrine of laziness and self-deception to "believe" that someone else's suffering and death shall atone for all your mess. Those were the teaching of the pegan cults prevalent in the Mediterranean region long before the purported "Jesus" came. Attis of Phrygia--later called "Galatia" in Asia Minor of present-day Turkey--Adonis of Syria. Dionysious or Bacchus of Greece. Mithra of Persia and Osiris and Horus of Egypt, were pegan gods with legends about "Redemption", "Atonement" and "Resurrection" very similar to those ascribed to the purported Jesus.

You would have to deal with the karma you brought on yourself either in this life or the next. Karma is something simliar to consequences.

Only if your name is John Gotti.

Can is a word used to ask if you have the ability. So, I would agree that yes, you probably have the ability to kill people. But whether you could pull the trigger is another thing all together.

Of course not. DUH! You misunderstand the term "repent." It means to turn from your former ways with hearty revulsion for past behavior. If you know that stealing and killing and gambling are wrong, and if you love God, you won't do those things.

Your way too funny,if you happen to be on the wrong side of Jesus you could end up in the fires of Hell,So would you still want to go ahead with your plan.hahahah

No. The Catholic Church clearly teaches that "accepting Jesus" is enough. However she does not teach "once saved, always saved". Saved Christians have the freedom to fully reject God and their salvation. We call this mortal sin. The behavior you are describing would fully reject God and your salvation. With love in Christ.

Its grace, not disgrace.Real Christians are Christ-like (hence the name). Christ didnt do that stuff, had no desire to. Thats what we strive for. Living a life pleasing to God. That is grace.

Yes christ did die for your sins and every sin is equal to the next. But christ also calls us to live are lives as godley as we can trying to obey his commandments and laws. So you trying to take advantage of that is a sin because in the end we will all stand before the judgement seat and i being a christian would rather not want to admit something like that unto my lord and savior. You'll also find the more straight and narrow of a path you will lead the happier you will be don't get me wrong you still go through trials sometimes worse than an unchristian person but God would never give you anything you can't handle as long as you lean on him.

As a Christian you will not want to do those things. Born again Christians who truly repented of their sins and asked Christ to save them are given a new nature. The Bible says we are a new creature in Christ, this means that your old nature (desire to sin) will be dead. You will desire to serve Christ rather than self. Don't get me wrong you will still sin, but deep down inside your spirit will be grieved because you failed to do what was right before God. Your conscience will eat you alive as a Christian for acting like that. "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." - Galatians 2:20

Sounds like a good deal - but then again satan believes in Jesus too but his options of going to the upper level are pretty much shot because of what he's done and is doing. I could say hell yeah do the damn thing but I would be fooling myself and you. You have to walk the walk and talk the talk - it's been written so all can understand.

a few points: Salvation is definitely based on Christ's work alone on the cross and in His resurrection, to be received by faith (trusting in Him). However, a person who truly trusts in Jesus will have a changed life. In the biblical understanding of things, sin (rebellion against God) is a terrible slavery. We can't stop sinning, and sin eventually leads to death and judgment. Christ's death and resurrection freed His people from such a slavery. Thus, the logic is, why would a person free from such slavery, go back to it? It's like God saving Israel from Egypt, and Israel complaining that they want to go back. See Romans 6:15-23.

Christians continue to sin after they are saved – we will not be completely free from sin until we die or Jesus comes back. However, becoming a Christian results in a changed life (2 Corinthians 5:17). A person will go from producing the acts of the flesh (Galatians 5:19-21) to displaying the fruits of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23), as the indwelling Holy Spirit has more and more control over his life. This change does not happen instantly, but it does happen over time. If a person does not demonstrate a changed life, he/she is likely not a genuine believer. Christians can commit grievous sins. History is filled with Christians (or those who claim to be Christians) committing terrible crimes. Jesus died for these sins as well. All the more reason not to commit them! The difference between a sinning unbeliever and a sinning believer is that one loves his sin while the other hates it. The believer who stumbles in his walk with the Lord regrets it, confesses it, wishes to never do it again and seeks to appropriate God’s power and grace to avoid it. He doesn’t consider how much he can sin and still be considered a Christian. Rather, he considers how he can avoid even the appearance of sin in the future. In 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, the Apostle Paul describes the kind of sinful lifestyles believers are saved from. Verse 11 says, “And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” Notice the word “were.” Believers used to be like the things listed in verses 9-10, but they are not like that any longer. Can a person who is an adulterer, drunkard, or homosexual, child abuser, etc. be saved? Yes. Is a person who lives a life of continual sin a believer? No. When we become Christians, our lives will change. Anyone who is living a sinful lifestyle and claims to be a Christian is either lying, is self-deceived, or really is a believer who is going to experience God’s judgment and discipline (Hebrews 12:5-11). Just because a Christian's sins are forgiven does "not" give them a license to sin.

he didn't die to let you sin, he died that you may repent of your sins, or so says the bible. But seeing as i don believe in heaven or hell then i would say do what you want but be aware of what you do for it is here on earth that the greatest of hells occurs. It happens in the scornful watches of your neighbor, in the hurt gaze of your family members and in the cold grasp of your conscience so be aware of what you do for it is you that will pay the price.

It seems to me that you can do what you want in the way of sinning, then pop along to the RC church once a week, confess, get absolution, and continue on as you were. I've probably misunderstood what confession is all about, but it seems awfully easy to me.

No.

the righteous who accept Jesus & ASK FORGIVENESS OF SINS....know better....its all CHOICE, right & wrong...the only way we are forgiven is to ask for it & " go and sin no more"...not keep doing wrong...

No. And i do NOT want to talk about it :)