I’m trying to figure this out. Some say that Jesus died to abolish sin and if we believe this we have eternal life. So why do we still try to not sin if Jesus died for this. It’s like saying oh thanks but I don’t really trust that.
Or am I wrong, did he die for some other purpose. Who is right and who is wrong?
Why is everything SO confusing. I don’t know how to act or be and I just feel like giving up because I am so lost and don’t know where to turn for answers.
The bible is so confusing with it’s big words, and then there are so many different religions. WHY?
God is love but yet he gives us rules to follow and if we don’t we are punished. WHY? He seems to big to me and above this. It just seems petty. Like I get the guidelines but love isn’t wanting to see someone suffer, right?
Someone set me straight please and thank you.
If it was up to me I would like to just believe that Christ died and so did sin. Believing this sets you free. Free to love without any restraint or worry.
Look at it this way and it might help!
We are all sinners. If you go through the 10 commandments (‘the law’), have you broken any of them? If you are honest, you will know that you have. So, ‘all have sinned and fallen short’. The only just penalty for this sin is death (Romans 6:23), not just physical death but eternal death (Revelation 20:11-15). God is a just judge.
If you commit some sort of crime and go before an earthly judge, you can say how sorry you are etc, but if the punishment for your crime is, say, a fine of $20, 000 or 2 years in jail, your sorrow is not going to make any difference. The court will still want their money, because that is the punishment. Now suppose a stranger steps in and says ‘Hey, here’s the $20,000 dollars’; the court will accept the money, the debt is paid, and you are free to go, because of the kindness and generosity of this stranger.
Now imagine you are standing before God, accused (justly) of the sins you have committed, the punishment for which is eternal damnation. After all, you freely choose to sin against the law of God, and now is the day of reckoning. You may be extremely sorry, but God is a just judge; Psalm 7:11. What can God accept as a reparation for your sins? Only the blood of the crucified Christ. When the devil accuses you before God, God points to His Son on the Cross. (Romans 10:9-10 For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.) Jesus Christ has paid the debt to abolish your sin in the eyes of His Father. This is the only possible means of paying the debt of our sins to Almighty God, for sin has been crucified on the cross of Jesus, and now by faith in Jesus Christ as the Savior “we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace” (Ephesians 1:7).
Our sins are forgiven, if we are followers of Christ, and we have repented and believed the Gospel. But that doesn’t mean that sin no longer exists! You don’t have to look far at all to see that sin is very much alive and kicking. However, God has sent us His only Son as a means of our salvation, ‘that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life’ (John 3:15).
Christ Himself did not claim to abolish the Law: 'Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil '.(Matt 5:15) so it holds that we are still to strive to keep the Law. He also said ‘Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.’ It’s quite clear that although He has died for our sins, sin still exists and that we still must do all we can, by the grace of God, to keep His commandments.
I hope this helps you clarify your thoughts. You say you would like to believe that ‘Christ died and so did sin and that believing that would set you free’. This doesn’t make sense. You must know that sin is happening all around you, and within you, and the only way it is destroyed is by the gift of Christ to those who believe in Him. Also Christians are a resurrection people; Christ rose again, having overcome those wages of sin, death. His death and resurrection are the things that have set us free.
Don’t give up searching for God; He wants you to find Him! He comes to meet you while you are still a long way off!
’ Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you’ (Matt 7:7).
God Bless.
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