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Does God hold Christians responsible for their unpremeditated and unconscious sins?

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Does God hold Christians responsible for their unpremeditated and unconscious sins?

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  1. Yes. Because 'Jesus' was 'sinless', and we're suppose to be like him right? Yeeaahhh. Not possible.


  2. An example is every sin, since free will is impossible. But then again, so is god.

  3. Good question.  The answer is yes and no.  Read the CS Lewis quote below, it is amazing and changed the way I look at life.  

    We are not only judged by our works, but by our thoughts, words and deeds.  God judges the heart.  Its difficult to determine what "unpremeditated" is.  A lot of our automatic responses come about by where our heart is.  Patient people will respond differently than people who have bad tempers.  

    CS Lewis uses a great metaphor to explain it:

    When I come to my evening prayers and try to reckon up the sins of the day, nine times out of ten the most obvious one is some sin against charity; I have sulked or snapped or sneered or snubbed or stormed. And the excuse that immediately springs to my mind is that the provocation was so sudden and unexpected; I was caught off my guard, I had not time to collect myself. Now that may be an extenuating circumstance as regards those particular acts: they would obviously be worse if they had been deliberate and premeditated. On the other hand, surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth? If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.

    God judges your heart.  He recognizes if  you are trying your best and will use as much mercy as he can

  4. such as.....?

  5. God doesn't hold Christians responsible for any of their sins.

  6. We are held accountable for all our sins, till we except Jesus as our Lord and Savior and ask forgiveness.

  7. could you give an example?

  8. Yes, you will go to h**l for your thought crimes (or sins).

  9. I don't think so, because It's impossible to be held responsible for unpremeditated or unconscious sins. Sins have to be will full deliberate, and intentional.deliberate.

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