'CALLING ALL AGNOSTICS/ATHEISTS/SPIRITUAL SEEKERS Re: A Forgiveness We Cannot Fathom' By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

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     How good it is to Christian believers to know that God has a forgiveness so 'complete' that it includes that which we can't ever completely understand!  Witness this exchange between Jesus and the men on each side of him:
"39One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: "Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!"

40But the other criminal rebuked him. "Don't you fear God," he said, "since you are under the same sentence? 41We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong."
42Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.[f]"
43Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise."
                                                                                            Luke 23:39-43 (NIV)
LINK: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+23&version=NIV
     What do you think is the 'story' of this 'suddenly forgiven' criminal?  It is the fact that he accepted Christ as the Lord that he was 'saved' at the last minute. 
     And God's forgiveness goes beyond even this.  We are told in Scripture that God so thoroughly 'forgives our sins' that He is actually able to 'not remember them'!  You can read this in a book of the New Testament written especially for 'Jewish Believers', in Hebrews 8:1-13 (NIV)
GOD says: "11No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."    Hebrews 8:11-12 (NIV)
LINK: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+8&version=NIV
Christian MySpace Graphics     Not 'remembering' our sins is an even BIGGER mystery for Christian believers to contemplate.  Who among us is 'good enough' to do this?  Fair few, I reckon...and that's why we need to call upon the Holy Spirit indwelling in each of us to get done what we alone, as human beings, simply cannot do.
     I am not saying that there is no such thing as 'unpardonable sin' (that is, attributing to Satan the works of the Holy Spirit) and that everyone can get a 'free pass' one way or another.  But only the Lord Himself--with or without the intervention of either an angel or a human prophet--can make a call like that.  For myself, I would be extremely hesitant to broach the subject unless I had 'direct orders', so to speak. 
     There's no second-guessing the Lord on matters of judgement and religious leaders who do so--well let's just say that they and only they will be judged for their words and actions and their influence on others.
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    So be wary, dear ones, of any religious leaders who declare either wholesale condemnation or wholesale forgiveness.  That is like saying that one completely knows the mind of God, and that is just not  impossible unless one has received some very direct orders. 
     I pray what I've written here gives you all--Christian believers, spiritual seekers, agnostics and atheists--cause for reflection and reconsideration of some very important things in this day and age.  There's a 'New Covenant' a-coming these days....to be 'completed' in God's good time.  The Bible outlines the gameplan and gives us plenty of hints and warnings of events that look strangely similar to events in the news today.
     If current events in any way prompt you to reconsider things you have previously cast aside (like believing in a Creator and/or believing in the writings of the Bible), this just might be a good time to take a second look.  What can it hurt? 
     But if you belong to the 'these things happen all the time' brigade, you'll likely think this is all nonsense and will just keep on keeping on with whatever you're doing anyway.  No matter-Scripture has you covered to, so that believers can understand you better and be there to help you in the event...you know.
      I will pray that if you are reading this, you will listen to that 'small, still, BOOMING voice' inside you mind, heart, body and soul when 'it' speaks to you.
      Please, oh please, do pay attention to it!
God Bless & Keep You even those of you who don't believe in Him just yet  : )
Reverend Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets The Cross"
www.DearOnesHealingMinisry.blogspot.com
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