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Tough Questions for Christians #1: When can God forgive?

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An ongoing series where I give Christians the opportunity to address some thought provoking questions. Each video in the series will end by asking only ONE question. Most of my other videos addressed multiple issues at once, this will be something new for me - hopefully you will all enjoy it, and hopefully it will encourage a healthy video debate.

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  • Burty
    by Burty 3 years ago
    An all forgiving God will forgive at your last breath as happened to one of the two thieves each side of Jesus on the cross. A very simple but effective praer is: "Father Forgive Me A Sinner."
  • Harry
    by Harry 3 years ago
    An excellent video, which comment no. 1 makes no attempt to address intellectually.

    And suppose you don't ask for forgiveness at your last breath, Burty, because you have come to the entirely intellectually justifiable conclusion that there is no god? Is your God going to make a distinction between someone who believes and someone who doesn't, even on honest and reasonable grounds? If Jesus dies then Jesus, bluntly, is a bigotted c**t wt no respect for serious thought. Which come to think of it he probably would be considering his lack of education and upbringing as a backward peasant :-)
  • Harry
    by Harry 3 years ago
    Typo - for "dies" read "does".
  • Rose
    by Rose 3 years ago
    Problem is, according to the fundies, we're supposed to ask for forgiveness for being gay. And I don't know a single gay person who thinks they're committing a sin for following their hearts, their instincts. So I don't think they're going to be asking for forgiveness with their last breath or any breath.
  • Iris
    by Iris 3 years ago
    Well, my thinking is that you'd have to be a pretty petty human being to make that judgement about somebody who had genuinely tried to find you to apologise about the car yet had run out of time (a deadline he didn't even know existed). Ignoring the whole over-the-top burning to death thing, a normal person would suspend judgement if you showed you'd truly tried to apologise and would let you off the punishment.

    If a human being could do this, then why can't God? Well, I'm not sure whether God exists or not, but I don't believe that the Bible and other similar books are an accurate representation of his/hers/their desires and thoughts. I think they're all man-made and fallible. They were created for power on Earth by men. So, to me, the idea that you need to repent prior to death is - and I don't mean this in a rude way - irrelevant.
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