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NASB | Colossians 2:13 When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Colossians 2:13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh (worldliness, manner of life), God made you alive together with Christ, having [freely] forgiven us all our sins, |
Subject: Sins Forgiven |
Bible Note: Greetings, So if I am hearing you right God will forgive us because we forgive others? Why did God have to send His Son in the first place then, if to be forgiven, all we had to do is forgive others of there sins against us? In effect, with your logic, the world didn't need a Saviour, just an attitude of forgiveness and things would be peachy keen for mankind and that would have made us acceptable in God’s sight! Am I to believe that God is actually impressed with my sincerity in my confession of sin, or the fact that His Son actually died for the sin that I’m confessing? And where on a scale of 1 to 10 does the sincerity actually kick in and count, when it comes to God forgiving me? Maybe at 4.97 the forgiveness really starts to work! Or maybe I could be highly optimistic and just assume that all I needed to do is what God says in the first place, and claim the following as being reliable and truthful. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Maybe, just maybe, God forgot to tell me about the sincerity part when I exercise and claim the promise of I John 1:9 I hate to appear facetious, but do you get my drift. CDBJ |