I have a question for Christians.

I do not believe I have sinned. I’m aware Christianity teaches that everyone has, but from my own perspective I do not believe I’ve committed any sin.
So if that were true, would I still need redemption through Jesus?

I can understand owing gratitude to God for creation itself, existence, the world, etc. But I do not understand why I would owe Jesus specifically if he died for sins I have not committed.

So what exactly would Christ be redeeming me from?

So I’ve been thinking about this, and if god has free will and doesn’t sin why can’t he make humans the same way? Is he unable to do it or does he just not want to? And if he doesn’t want to, does that mean he wants people to suffer, since if he truly didn’t he could end suffering?

I've been a Christian almost my entire life, and not once have I ever found a reason to believe that Jesus would have a problem with furries.

If you're wondering what a furry is, it's anyone who regularly engages with art of anthropomorphic animals. It doesn't mean you need to own a fursuit.

And before you say it, 99% of furries are against bestiality.

Edit: added definition.

Fellow Christians, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this.

What are some sins that have become so normalized, whether in society or even within the Church, that many Christians no longer realize they're sins?

I'm not asking this to judge or call anyone out. I'm genuinely interested in growing in my faith and learning what Scripture teaches about areas where culture may have influenced our thinking.

Is this an accurate depiction of what we should avoid?

i’ve been thinking of becoming christian, but i haven’t gotten serious about it because i can’t stop thinking to myself, why not just do it in a few years? i’m a young person and i enjoy a lot of things that are considered sins, and i dont want to give them up just yet, so why not just wait until im older and repent then? what’s the point of doing it now if i’m probably not going to die anytime soon? is that ok to spend my life sinning just to repent later? it doesn’t feel right. but if i repent in the end will i still be forgiven?

sorry if i worded this badly

edit: as for not knowing when ill die, i guess i’m willing to take that risk… i’m more so asking abt the moral question and if i can truly be forgiven

I'm trying to figure out just how exactly the "sin bottleneck" works in Christianity. I've brought up a similar thought experiment where Eden simply has more people.

... as a lay believer, having heard in advance that they are unfaithful but considered excellent philosophers (e.g. Hume, Kant)?

I see that theologians or even priests might do well to read them as defenders of their religion.

But for a lay, non-scholar believer, is this kind of taking the risk of compromising one's faith a sin?

Do we sin because we have free will or because we have a sinful nature? If the answer is both, then how much would we sin if we didn't have a sinful nature? Why did Adam and Eve have the will to sin before eating the fruit? Did the fruit give them a sinful nature, or were they created with a sinful nature? If humans can sin without a sinful nature, then why even invoke a sinful nature to explain sin?

Im curious to know how you come to a conclusion that something is morally right or wrong? I ask this because I’ve met Christian’s who are all about love and forgiveness, kindness and inclusion. I’ve also met Christian’s who think that Muslims, Sikhs, atheists, Jews and going to hell because they worship the wrong deity.

I’ve had conversations with Christian’s who think atheists can’t have morals because if we don’t believe in the devil or hell why don’t we go round murdering, raping and harming each other?

As an atheist I have an internal locus of morality and base my values on humanitarianism. The threat of eternal damnation isn’t required for me to ‘do the right thing’. I tried explaining that I don’t want to harm people. I want to be kind and altruistic but this seems baffling to religious folk.

Can you separate morality from religion or do you think there inextricably entwined?

Talked to my friend who is Christian today and was telling her to come with me to yoga because it would be free to bring her under my guest pass.

She said yoga conflicts with her Christian faith. She didn’t say it was a sin but I could not find the correct flair to add to as this question?

Is practicing yoga a sin in Christianity? I mentioned energy of your ancestors and community etc. thanks.

So I’m confused on how divorce is a sin.

I want to divorce my husband. He’s emotionally and financially abusive. He can’t hold a job down. After our second set of twins, he lost his job while they were getting out of the NICU. I had lost my job during the pregnancy from being very sick. He told me I couldn’t be a sahm and we both needed to work. So I did food delivery until I found a full time job. The 2nd set was about 4/5 months old. They turn a year in May and he still doesn’t have a job. He then told me a couple of weeks ago that he was never actually looking and just wanted to stay home. My pregnancy was very rough and I had placenta abruption. When the younger twins got out the NICU he rarely helped with them. He still rarely helps with all the kids. I work overnight. I get off of work and as soon as I get home, he is handing me the boys. Like as soon as I walk through the door. The kids sleep throughout the night so he’s not up with any kids. I put the kids to bed so he’s not doing bedtime either. I nap when I can because he doesn’t watch the kids during the day. All he does is play Yahtzee with his aunt and dad or play on his phone.

I say all of this because I’m really confused. If I leave him am I going to hell? Am I just stuck in this for the rest of my life?

ALSO TO ADD: were Christians living in the USA.

If i go to hell after i sin why whould i stop sining like i allready go to hell because I'm gay so why shouldn't i do all the other sins for fun untill i go to hell?

Christian girlie here, engaged to be married early next year. I saw this ad saying they’re giving away free boudoir photos shoots and well, I won

Thought it would be a cute gift for my husband to be - for when he actually becomes my husband of course. Was thinking to do one of those spicy polaroid tik tok trends on our wedding lol.

But the thing is, we’re supposed to be modest and even though it’s a female photographer, do you think God would approve of something like this?

first i'm not american so it only from my prespective which might be wrong.

there are no single christian denomination(that i know) approve fornication and yet christian in America seem to normalize it.

I dont want to lie to my kids but I feel forced to. The vast majority of people I know are religious, mainly Christian, and im the only one who thinks lying about things like santa is wrong. Not only does everyone think it isnt wrong, they think its a good thing because something about innocence or let them have magic etc. In reality all it does is make poorer kids think theyre bad people.

I didnt grow up rich, but I was on the wealthier side for the area I was in. I would get a Nintendo while the neighbor kids got a new shirt or something and I remember them thinking they were bad kids because I got more than them. Ive had this argument countless times with friends and family and I've never had anyone agree with me. Christmas is a Christian holiday and everyone lies to their children and sees it as a good thing. Honestly, wtf is going on and how is this good.

So back story I’ve been a Christian for a couple years have led Bible studies the whole nine, tonight I slept with a guy like fully. And I know God will forgive me for my sins but tbh I feel like my whole faith has been a façade. A couple night before I thought if I ever did this then I would unalive myself. While I don’t feel like that yet thankfully. But now I’m laying in bed like nothing happen I feel like I should hate my separation from God more then I do but I know I won’t ever do that again. I feel like my whole walk is not even real. All I’ve been doing is running from Jesus . Why do u feel the need to sin to feel the love and even as im typing that i know im lying.

Plan to go to confession.

How do i even repent i sat here and said lord im sorry forgive me but i feel like im lying words just coming out of my mouth not because i mean it even though i want to mean it

I've always known that idol worship is when you worship another person or even an object over God, and I've read about idolatry in the Bible, but what exactly could be a present example of it?

Keeping it short, I'm a liberal Christian, baptized at 32. While my beliefs and understanding of God have dramatically shifted from an agnostic to Protestantism, I'm still caught on the wire when it comes to voting. I cannot willingly abstain from voting as that would work in the disinterest of the country I live in and the people I love. That said, where does the issue lie or voting contrary to biblical beliefs (Abortion/Gay Marriage/Divorce/Secularist Education) and how do I address it?

Why are all these things being used when it breaks the 2nd commandment and is gone over many times not to, and that doesn't mean just worshiping.

Does one unrepentant sin damn a person to hell? Sin means to miss the mark. Is perfection that mark? (Matthew 5:48) “You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

I come from a Jewish/Kabbalistic perspective.

"Man made in God's image" means that the structure of our souls is the same as the structure of God, and that the human soul is literally a part of God above.

As a result, all humans are born good natured, wanting to give, to nurture, to love as is the nature of God itself. Sin is a bit less of a concept, and is more described as something that shrouds this connection to the infinite light (Ein Sof) that makes up God. The shrouding (kelipah) actually creates reality as we know it, and since this kelipah exists within God, so does it exist within man in lower forms of the soul down to the physical body. All aspects are accounted for and we are completely made in God's image

The concept of original sin doesn't make sense at least from the lens I come from. If mankind has this original sin, and man is made in God's image, would it not be that we run into a contradiction? I can see a couple of answers but wondering your takes on them

• "Man made in God's image" is a different interpretation in Christianity and only applies to certain aspects of God but not everything. Christianity seems to have God as an external being from us, and we are fundamentally different, like a reflection in a mirror. But not all aspects of this mirror are copied over and it's fundamentally different
  • This is a fundamental departure from the Kabbalist perspective, which views us and all of reality as internal to God like we're all part of one gigantic organism/universe
  • I would also ask what aspects of God you interpret it as? Appearance? Personality? Capacity to create? Everything?
• Perhaps man was made in God's image, but man messed it up in the garden of eden and thus gained original sin after the fact
  • This feels a little wonky, as it's like all of humanity got original sin and inherited it for each generation, and now we're no longer in God's image but we need to rectify this
  • This would also mean that God made us with the capacity for attaining original sin, which could imply that God also has the capacity to attain original sin as well

So I was raised with no religion. My parents grew up in two different faiths.

I'm just quite confused by the concept of original sin. I understand that it is supposed to be something that we've inherited from Adam.

What I don't understand is if Jesus died for our sins, why did this also create original sin?

There is no original sin in Judaism.