I know that what I’m going to write here, may be controversial to someone, and I want to apologize if these words are hurting you.
But instead of shooting the messenger, try to go deep down into the world of your own motives and do your best to figure out how to be a better person in front of God and other people.
For as long as I’ve had enough understanding of God’s Word and will, I have disliked the Doctrines of the Catholic Church.
Why? Because of their misleading teaching about many essential Christian doctrines.
Without knowing the truth of God, people are heading towards hell.
The other reason is that most people with Catholic faith seem too fake to me. I.e. they can without any pain of conscience, go directly from Church to a bar to get drunk and live in any kind of sin… whatever their lust is telling them.
I have learnt that most of them have God only in their mouths but not in their hearts.
They are the most untrustworthy people I have ever met in my life. They can easily say one thing and do something totally different… And breaking their promises means nothing to them.
Afterall, the catholics think that they can always “confess their sins” afterwards..and after some “Hail Marias” they’ll be “clean” again.
Of course, this is a total lie.
That’s what their Catholic Church has falsely taught them, but in front of God, their contineous confessions from their contineous sins, which they only performed mechanically but not sincerely, are sending them to hell forever, because their Catholic Church never learnt them how to sincerely repent and change their behavior, which is needed to get God’s grace.
Instead, by misusing God’s Grace, they crucify Christ all over again and again.
Real confess ALWAYS contains sincere repentance, which leads to changed behavior and avoiding to sin anymore.
What does the Bible teach about the relationship between salvation and repentance?
Firstly, it teaches that repentance is essential to salvation. One cannot truly believe unless she repents, and one cannot truly repent unless she believes. Repentance and faith are two sides of the same coin.
Acts 11:18 and 2. Peter 3:9 are two of the many verses that teaches about repentance. These passages are teaching that repentance is essential for salvation. Perhaps 2. Timothy 2:25 best sums up the relationship between repentance and saving faith when it speaks of “repentance to the acknowledging of the truth” (see also Acts 20:21).
Secondly, the Greek word for repentance (metanoia) means “to have another mind,” but it cannot properly be defined to exclude a sense of hatred of and penitence for sin. The biblical concept of repentance involves far more than merely a casual change of thinking.
Biblically, a person who repents does not continue willfully in sin. Repentance is a turning from sin, and it always results in changed behavior (Luke 3:8). While sorrow from sin is not equivalent to repentance, it is certainly an element of scriptural repentance (2 Corinthians 7:10).
Finally, despite what is being widely taught today, affirming that repentance and acknowledgement of Jesus’ Lordship are necessary to salvation does not “add” anything to the requirement of faith for salvation.
It is not “faith plus repentance” that saves, but rather a repentant faith. The notion that salvation is possible apart from a genuine, heartfelt repentance, which includes a deep hatred of sin, is a relatively new one, neither believed nor taught by the people of God until the twentieth century.
How can I say that? I answer with the Words of Jesus Christ in Matt. 12:33 :
“…the tree is known by its fruits.”
A good person brings good out of her heart and you can see it by the way she behaves. A bad person brings bad out of her heart and that you can also see that by the way she behaves.
Living in sin means that they put their lust before God, without feeling any or very little quilt of their wrongdoings. That’s why it is so hurtful to God.
Making sin is temporarily stepping aside from God’s will, but acknowledging that she did wrong against God and having the ability of regretting and sincerely apologizing her wrongdoings.
If you have been born again in Biblical meaning, you’ll have a personal relationship with God and won’t (necessarily) need a priest between yourself and God.
Belive me, God knows what humans are made of and has a lot of mercy for our weaknesses. This does not mean that we could deliberately continue making sin.
When Jesus says, “Go, and sin no more.. ” in John 8:11, he does not expect that this woman would only take away her sinner’s flesh so that she would never be tempted again. Jesus says that she has to say ‘NO’ to the sin she lives in, and to prevent the lust being fullfilled; ie to prevent the temptation from evolving into sin.
From this we see that all sins starts in our minds and what Jesus is asking us to do, is that we won’t let our flesh accept the temptations, because if we do, only then will we be guilty of committing sin.
And Rom. 6:23 says:” For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”
Jesus Himself say, “If anyone wants to follow me, let her DENY herself, and take up her CROSS every day, and follow ME ” (Luke 9:23) What did he mean? He really means that we should deny the bad thoughts in our minds that are tempting us.
Only by denying that kind of tempting thoughts, can we live a pure and meaningful life in harmony with God.
To live in harmony with God is the best cure against stress and mental problems, because When we know that we are living in His will, we also understand that there’s no sin in our life, and that’s more than liberating to us… (1. John 1:7-10)
Now, I hope, you start to see how meaningless it is to always sin and confess, sin and confess. It won’t lead us to sincere repentance in God’s eyes. We only deceive ourselves if we continue like that. The wages of that kind of behavior is death, proves the Word of God.
(Rom. 6:23)