Are all our sins—past, present, and future—already forgiven?

[maintenanceman]

By Gosh you all, I am a sinner amongst sinners, But I am here to tell you that I am a priest of God. I understand what His son/Christ did and I want everyone else to understand that. Your blunders are all bull hockey…

Let’s look at the historical view of the OT and NT and maybe quit looking at the modern interpretation of Christ being a personal savior, we may well figure this thing out. God is a loving father and provider.

[davo]

As I understand the Greek word translated as “trespasses” the meaning is “unintentional blunders.”

Being of keen interest on this topic, I believe this is easy for people to justify their intentional sins as explain them away as unintentional. They can convince themselves they are blunders, when they might not in fact be. Basically any conscious choice to ever succumb to temptation would viewed as intentional, in my view.

I concur… intentional OR unintentional “blunders” don’t really factor into the definition of “trespass” < παράπτωμα > paraptōma, it is simply —
1) to fall beside or near something 2) a lapse or deviation from truth and uprightness 2a) a sin, misdeed.

[Paidion]

Paidion, I noticed you espouse the believe above, but are rarely transparent. I’ll lay my cards out first; I don’t believe you never intentionally sin as I define it (succumbing to temptation). Yet, in reading your posts, I tend to get the impression that, perhaps wrongly, that all of your sins are somehow unintentional. There is no rule on this message board that one must be transparent, but I do think it is somewhat of a obligation when the implications are, well, that most of us here are just not truly repentant.

From my perspective, both former and now is the same: We are imperfect people and sometimes succumb to temptation, which by the very nature are intentional. They may not be “High Handed”, but they are intentional, because temptation always involves choice. Succumbing to it, is making the wrong choice. That isn’t a mistake, it is a choice. It is, temporary atheism, as MacDonald says.

Gabe, first let me make clear that I have never indicated, nor do I believe, that all of my sins have been unintentional. The meaning of “wrongdoing” or “sin” as I understand it, are those actions a person takes that harms others and/or himself.

The belief I “espouse” is that there are two basic forms of wrong doing.

1. The INTENTIONAL
   God does not overlook or pardon intentional wrongdoing. IF the intentional sinner repents (has a change of heart and mind about what he did), God will grant him true forgiveness, and the sinner’s relationship with God will restored.

Jesus said that we also are to forgive those who intentionally sin against us IF they repent.

If your brother sins against you, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. (Luke 17:3)

2. The UNINTENTIONAL
   Blunders can be made which harm other people or oneself without meaning such harm. God or other people may pardon these blunders even if the offender does not repent. Yet,it would be wise to point out to the offender how his actions have hurt others or himself, so that he will not repeat such acts. However, if we refuse to pardon the blunders of others, God will not pardon OUR blunders. (Matthew 6:15)