Can all sins be forgiven?

[Pete_1]

Can all sins be forgiven?

Any infallible declarations on this matter may help.

 

[Noobasaurus_Rex]

All, except the sin of blasphemy against the holy spirit, which is actually the continual denial of grace bestowed by the holy spirit upto a person’s death.

 

[Jaypeeto4]

Noobasaurus is correct.
And the reason that sort of blasphemy cannot be forgiven
is because it is committed as a continued vicious course of action against the manifest operation of God’s spirit and committed with NO extenuating circumstances such as a moment of passion, depression, frustration, misunderstanding, etc. and is so malicious that the person committing it
has reached and gone beyond the point where he or she
will never, never, never repent.

Any sin from which a person REPENTS,
can be forgiven.

Jaypeeto4
+JMJ+

 

[Fidelis]

Can all sins be forgiven?

Any infallible declarations on this matter may help.

Before your question can be answered, you need disabuse yourself from the notion you seem to have that only “infallible” teachings of the Church matter. You seemed to display that perception in another thread you started:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=194755

As I noted there, most of the teachings of the Church come from her Ordinary Magisterium (teaching authority). Catholics are obliged to hold this Ordinary teaching just as they are beholden to assent to Extra-Ordinary Magisterial teachings like the occasional infallible pronouncement.

It is one of the great errors of our day to think that Catholics only have to believe infallible statements, and can pick and choose the rest.

I’m only pointing this out because it’ll help you and others be able to answer this and other questions looking at the **entire **teaching of the Church.

 

[Pete_1]

Thanks for the help but i am still confused could anyone offer some further help?

 

[davidv]

Thanks for the help but i am still confused could anyone offer some further help?

What exactly are you confused about?

 

[Pete_1]

if all sins can be forgiven through repentence, could somone post some sources, preferably infalible ones (i understand what you said Fidelis but an inerrant document would put my mind at rest)

 

[davidv]

if all sins can be forgiven through repentence, could somone post some sources, preferably infalible ones (i understand what you said Fidelis but an inerrant document would put my mind at rest)

Does the Bible meet your criterion?

Acts.17:30] The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all men everywhere to** repent**,

If repentence is necessary for forgiveness the above quote from Acts does not limit the call to anyone.

 

[Pete_1]

i realise repentence is neccecary for forgiveness, however i do not know if all sins can be forgiven through repentence

 

[davidv]

i realise repentence is neccecary for forgiveness, however i do not know if all sins can be forgiven through repentence

Why don’t you “know”?
Jesus say in Matthew:

Mt 7::7 "Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

If you ask for forgivenes with a true attitude of repentence why would God refuse?

 

[debraran]

I think being truely sorry is what God is wanting. I remember a priest saying during a “near death experience” he was in trouble because he broke all his vows but really wasn’t sorry, went to confession as a “rote thing”. Some people stumble but our truely sorry they fell. I remember once (and I don’t think it was very wise in retrospect) not going to confession until I REALLY knew I was sorry about something, not just a little bit. Then I felt I could really let it go, but I should have spoken to a priest about it earlier.

Sometimes I think God forgives even those who don’t ask…a man that was born and from day one was ignored, physcially and emotionally abused, not fed well, pushed through a bad school until he drops out and becomes a criminal. If he dies in a shoot-out, is he in hell or does our Lord see how he never really had a chance? Not everything is black and white…

 

[TMC]

i realise repentence is neccecary for forgiveness, however i do not know if all sins can be forgiven through repentence

The answer is yes. Here is the catechism, the official teaching of the Church:

982 There is no offense, however serious, that the Church cannot forgive. "There is no one, however wicked and guilty, who may not confidently hope for forgiveness, provided his repentance is honest.529 Christ who died for all men desires that in his Church the gates of forgiveness should always be open to anyone who turns away from sin.530

I does not matter how serious the sin is. Peter denied the Christ in the moment of His need. He was not only forgiven, he became the first Pope.

You seem troubled, Pete. Do you have a priest? Speak to him.