Sins Paid For

[Mangy_Donkey]

Perhaps someone can answer this better than I can, What sins did Christ die for? Did he die for our original sin? Our future sins we commit? All sins? Or did he die so that sins can be forgiven if we repent?

Thanks in advance

 

[Tantum_ergo]

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
The Scriptures had foretold this divine plan of salvation through the putting to death of “the righteous one, my Servant” as a mystery of universal redemption, that is, as the **ransom that would free men from the slavery of sin.**397 Citing a confession of faith that he himself had “received”, St. Paul professes that “**Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures.”**398 In particular Jesus’ redemptive death fulfills Isaiah’s prophecy of the suffering Servant.399 Indeed Jesus himself explained the meaning of his life and death in the light of God’s suffering Servant.400 After his Resurrection he gave this interpretation of the Scriptures to the disciples at Emmaus, and then to the apostles.401

“For our sake God made him to be sin”

602 Consequently, St. Peter can formulate the apostolic faith in the divine plan of salvation in this way: "**You were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers. . . with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was destined before the foundation of the world but was made manifest at the end of the times for your sake."402 Man’s sins, following on original sin, are punishable by death.403 By sending his own Son in the form of a slave, in the form of a fallen humanity, on account of sin, God "made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."404 **
603 Jesus did not experience reprobation as if he himself had sinned.405 But in the redeeming love that always united him to the Father, he assumed us in the state of our waywardness of sin, to the point that he could say in our name from the cross: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"406 Having thus established him in solidarity with us sinners, **God “did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all”, so that we might be “reconciled to God by the death of his Son”.407 **
God takes the initiative of universal redeeming love

604 By giving up his own Son for our sins, God manifests that his plan for us is one of benevolent love, prior to any merit on our part: "**In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins."408 God "shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us."409 **
605 At the end of the parable of the lost sheep Jesus recalled that **God’s love excludes no one: "So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish."410 He affirms that he came “to give his life as a ransom for many”; this last term is not restrictive, but contrasts the whole of humanity with the unique person of the redeemer who hands himself over to save us.**411 The Church, following the apostles, teaches that **Christ died for all men without exception: "There is not, never has been, and never will be a single human being for whom Christ did not suffer."412 **

 

[LilyM]

Perhaps someone can answer this better than I can, What sins did Christ die for? Did he die for our original sin? Our future sins we commit? All sins? Or did he die so that sins can be forgiven if we repent?

Thanks in advance

So basically all of the above :angel1:

 

[Blue_Serenity]

Perhaps someone can answer this better than I can, What sins did Christ die for? Did he die for our original sin? Our future sins we commit? All sins? Or did he die so that sins can be forgiven if we repent?

Thanks in advance

He died for ALL those reasons and so that we might be saved and can spend an eternity of happiness with Him in Heaven!!!

 

[Mannyfit75]

Perhaps someone can answer this better than I can, What sins did Christ die for? Did he die for our original sin? Our future sins we commit? All sins? Or did he die so that sins can be forgiven if we repent?

Thanks in advance

Sin paid for a dollar and 75 cents. kidding The answers are already posted.

 

[Mangy_Donkey]

So here in lies my confusion, Must a sin be repented for in order for it to be forgiven? (I believe this to be true) So I guess my question, or at least my understanding is that Christ died so that sins may be forgiven not that he died so that sins are forgiven.

Sorry if this question seems lame!

 

[Ghosty]

So here in lies my confusion, Must a sin be repented for in order for it to be forgiven? (I believe this to be true) So I guess my question, or at least my understanding is that Christ died so that sins may be forgiven not that he died so that sins are forgiven.

Sorry if this question seems lame!

Yes, we must unite ourselves to the Grace of forgiveness through Baptism and Confession, but it is always “out there”. We don’t get a free ride in the sense that they’re forgiven regardless of our actions. Christ played the first move, providing the Grace, and from there we must unite ourselves to it.

Peace and God bless!

 

[Contarini]

So here in lies my confusion, Must a sin be repented for in order for it to be forgiven? (I believe this to be true) So I guess my question, or at least my understanding is that Christ died so that sins may be forgiven not that he died so that sins are forgiven.

Sorry if this question seems lame!

Are you encountering people who claim to believe the latter? The only people who actually believe the latter are radical universalists who believe that everyone is saved whether they repent or not. There are very few of them and they are obviously heretics. Scripture makes it abundantly clear that repentance is necessary.

You will find some Protestants who believe that a one-time act of repentance and faith is all that is necessary. They will support their position with the argument that Jesus died for our sins, past, present, and future, so that once we believe in Him no further acts are necessary. They will accuse Catholics (and other Christians who don’t agree with them) of nullifying the grace of the Cross. But their position doesn’t hold up, because obviously they do believe that we have to do *something *to receive forgiveness. They need to show that this “something” is a once-for-all act rather than a lifelong process.

A more serious position, IMHO, is the Calvinist view called “limited” or “definite” atonement–i.e., Christ died for all those who will be saved specifically by name (some Calvinists have come to believe in universalism, so that Christ died for everyone in this specific, definite way) and His death atones for their sins perfectly. However, they still believe that repentance and faith are necessary–they simply believe that repentance and faith will inevitably occur in those for whom Christ died. Christ’s death is effective in saving all those for whom He died.

The more orthodox position, on the other hand, is that Christ died for everyone, and through His death all those who believe on Him are forgiven. But saving faith involves repentance and issues in good works, and it is a lifelong matter rather than a once-for-all act. Catholics and the more orthodox Protestants should be able to agree on this much.

In Christ,

Edwin

 

[Mangy_Donkey]

Thank you Edwin and all who have answered.

 

[SoonerServant]

I think the confusion here, about Christ dying for past, present and future sins, is that they assume it means he covered those sins too. It doesn’t say that though, does it? It says he died FOR them. For ppl in the present who ask of His forgiveness and ppl in the future who will ask of His forgiveness. This also lends more evidence of purgatory in the old testament, in that, He died for past sins too. So, perhaps, these ppl were held somewhere (Abraham’s Bosom, Luke 16) until a perfect Sacrifice could be given.