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[BigJulie;150200]James, you still are not making sense to me. WHY would you choose to confess your sins to the congregation for adultery, but not for a lie about the cookies if both are a serious offense to God. Why would confessing the one help you realize you had received forgiveness? If both sins are of equal weight--wouldn't you do this for ALL your sins, every time you sin?
If again I walk way so far from God that my faith is running on empty I will reach out to the Church.. But If I sin and still have a firm grasp on my faith I will allow Jesus to handle it and not ask anyone else to help support me with their prayers in the matter.. That is the ONLY reason I confessed to them.. There is np Biblical reason for their involvement beyond that..
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I have heard what you said, it just does not make sense to me in light of what you teach on this site.
For example, if I said eating an apple was exactly the same to God as eating an orange---why would I feel the need to do more in the repentance process if I ate an apple versus eating an orange. I mean, I perfectly well see that adultery is a more serious sin and would require doing more. But because YOU state it is no different, I am curious why you felt in your heart YOU needed to do more to realize God's forgiveness?
I mean, why did you let the feelings of your heart dictate your actions, rather than what the scriptures taught you regarding this sin?
I am sorry Julie but you bring up cookies, apple, and oranges and that makes no sense to me.. Eating those things are not sin and God doesn't care whether I eat apples or oranges.. He has provided both for me to eat and doing so is within His perfect will for my life.. The question is how you feel about one sin being more serious than another, of course you do you aren't God.. The question is what did God say about it in His word.. I have showed that to you what He said so you are no longer with me but you are arguing with Him in what He has taught us in His word. All your arguments will not change His word no matter how strongly you feel that He is wrong and you are right..