will every sin be forgiven just aslong you ask for forgiveness?

so I watch reality tv shows that shows people locked up in prison that committed horrible crimes and a hand full of them have found God. they became all religious and says things like you just have to pray to God and ask for forgiveness and you'll be redeemed.

also I'm aware there's people in religions that go to their priests and confess their sins and they are forgiven. so what are your opinions about this? commit any sin, ask for forgiveness, and you'll be forgiven? or it's just all in the mind? just a psychological way for you to escape your guilty conscious by praying?

Not in Catholicism. I no longer call myself "Christian", but I personally would believe asking for forgiveness for a mortal sin once and having it washed away fine, but repeating it and repeatedly asking for forgiveness is notDivergeUnify

As long as it's sincere, that's the idea.SaugaGames

Indeed.

NEIN.

so I watch reality tv shows that shows people locked up in prison that committed horrible crimes and a hand full of them have found God. they became all religious and says things like you just have to pray to God and ask for forgiveness and you'll be redeemed.

also I'm aware there's people in religions that go to their priests and confess their sins and they are forgiven. so what are your opinions about this? commit any sin, ask for forgiveness, and you'll be forgiven? or it's just all in the mind? just a psychological way for you to escape your guilty conscious by praying?

ReverseCycology

I am not religious. Asking another human being for forgiveness and walking away thinking it is all going to be okay has no merit. Praying to god out of fear has no merit. Doing a good thing thinking it balances the cosmos has no merit.

What has merit cannot be judged. Both words and actions are often cheap. It is when you give something that you cherish yourself, dearly, up in the face of getting nothing in return other than giving someone else the chance to have what you just gave up with no strings attached.. that has merit.

Sometimes you need to take all the hurt, the pain, the anger and love, and bear it. You choose in life where you land. You do not always think about it, and often it gets masked behind other emotions. Every single damn day you make thousands of decisions that affect countless people around you, them to you, and all things are in the end equal.

Someone who kills someone out of selfish contempt for their own situation has to confront themselves. They killed someone. No one else made them. Which brings up the thing that many people forget.

You dont need to be forgiven, by yourself or by those that you hurt, to become a better person. There is no wiping away the slate. You stole that car, you killed that person, you should have saw the signs and taken that person to the hospital before the heart attack or been there before that person killed themselves.

You dont need forgiven. You should carry the facts that you bore for the remainder of your days. Forgiveness is just another way to forget. Forgetting does not change what is already burned on your very being. Regardless of whether our souls are sent to a heaven or just merely fade away into nothing.

As long as it's sincere, that's the idea.SaugaGames

Indeed as long as you deeply regret what you've done and recognize it, forgiveness is just around the corner.

No.

Every sin will be forgiven if you ask for forgiveness and mean it.

[QUOTE="DivergeUnify"]Not in Catholicism. I no longer call myself "Christian", but I personally would believe asking for forgiveness for a mortal sin once and having it washed away fine, but repeating it and repeatedly asking for forgiveness is notJoeRatz16

I am not religious. Asking another human being for forgiveness and walking away thinking it is all going to be okay has no merit. Praying to god out of fear has no merit. Doing a good thing thinking it balances the cosmos has no merit.

What has merit cannot be judged.

CreasianDevaili

But what does not have merit can?