Why does the bible forgive certain sins and not others? today i saw a post. and i think you've all seen it before. about forgiveness, honesty, and what haves you. mainly, about how god if he even exists. forgives certain sins. so my problem with this one is... why? like... child raping. alot of based users put it bluntly, that just because god forgives you doesn't mean that there isn't any earthly consequences for your actions in the meantime. and i agree with this. however... why are certain sins forgiven? but others not? it seems rather inconsistent for this to be. imagine if theirs 2 people. both committed sins. and both of them ended up in heaven. but theirs's more.
1 stole. and the other raped his mom to death. according to the bible, both have sinned. but aslong as both repent, they both end up in heaven, looking at you u/swamprangers. now, why would god, take 2 different sins. and equate them both, to be equally bad? seems kinda weird, how the matricide rapist, has an equal chance of getting into heaven. compared to the thieve. it seems kinda weird, that a system like that would be in place. but if your jewish, (according to 98% of the users here, sit wide. and 70% of the users in KIA2 ) atheist, gay, or adulters, there is no repentance, and you go to hell.
Now don't worry. this is indeed an indictment on the bible. but then again, that's the problem with almost any holybook ingeneral, it's pretty much bullshit that softens people to real world crimes. because the idea is... the bad guys will get theirs in the end... somehow?
Ignore, downvote, move on.
I have a dream, that mine will be the only comment in this entire thread and that one day, our children will live in a world where no one will comment on this retard's posts.
Inshallah!
Edit: ...
Can I still tell him to drink bleach?
Not in posts he starts. This is my decree.
Even for you this is astonishingly retarded.
The bible only speaks about one unforgivable sin, at Hebrews 10:26. Sinning deliberately after having knowledge of the truth, is the unforgivable sin.
Child rape, theft, murder, is not necessarily the unforgivable sin. Doing those things after coming to know Jesus, is.
They are equally forgiven, not equally bad.
Have you even read the bible?
Reaching God isn't about following the rules. No one is going to get to Heaven by following the rules. The rites and rules are there to help a person connect with God. Any sin will separate you from God.
It isn't a trial by law. If you think of it that way, you are missing the point.
This is just wrong, I've not heard anyone saying that. If you repent and then sin no more you are going to be forgiven. Being gay is not a sin, having same sex relations is.
As for being Jewish, I doubt that is a sin.
The only sin that is unforgivable is blaspheming against the Holy Spirit. at least as far as my limited knowledge.
It is in my book.
Anyone can turn away from Judaizing, from atheism, from homosexuality, or from adultery. I told you there was only one sin that can't be repented from, and that's on the grounds of logic. If a person rejects the nature of the universe over the course of a mature lifetime, that person gets so confirmed in that rejection that it becomes permanent and unchangeable, and remains negative indefinitely. And that's what the person's free will chose by unanimous consent over many years.
Jesus said that a king will forgive small debts and great debts the same way, but the difference is the one forgiven a great debt is so much more conscious of it that the reaction of gratitude becomes a greater testimony to the king's beneficence. Also there are differences of rewards in heaven, so there are additional things to strive for even though everyone who wants a heavenly relationship with the universe will receive it.
Other answers are the same as before. Thanks for the ping.
Is an eternity on non-existance better than hell?
I think the rough idea is just don't break any of the well set out rules and leave the rest of how it is interpreted to god.
Correct.
Christ didn't preach to Caesar.
The bible DOES NOT (unlike many religions) set out to establish the earthly laws of Christendom. There is no Leviticus in the Synoptic Gospels. The bible preaches forgiveness because forgiving others is the best for YOU, not those who transgress against you.
The medieval conception of the divine right of kings came later, to explain how Caesar can be Christian. Because a just Caesar must do things which are decidedly un-Christian in order to create and preserved Christendom, creating law, imposing it, and condemning those who transgress it.