Jesus Christ is my God!
Issued 12.03.2001
What I did was wrong!
Many beg forgiveness, if they have been caught in doing wrong. However usually it is not heard from their mouth the most important sentence of the situation: "What I did was wrong." The apology of an unrepentant person mocks one's victim. It is possible to get forgiveness without asking it, but never without a repenting confession.
Forgive me!
People have been taught to apologise, if they have been caught in doing wrong. It is considered already an expression of humbleness, if one begs forgiveness. However, usually it is not heard from his mouth the most important sentence, which the victim expects to hear. They don't say: "What I did was wrong."
Maybe he, who begs forgiveness, felt his guilt genuinely in his heart, but he has not enough humbleness to say aloud the name of his bad deed to the person whom he has wronged.
People have been taught to apologise, if they have been caught in doing wrong. It is considered already an expression of humbleness, if one begs forgiveness. However, usually it is not heard from his mouth the most important sentence, which the victim expects to hear. They don't say: "What I did was wrong."
Maybe he, who begs forgiveness, felt his guilt genuinely in his heart, but he has not enough humbleness to say aloud the name of his bad deed to the person whom he has wronged.
Correct names of evil deeds
Often the confession is given evasively because the truth is considered too humiliating. It is important that a criminal confesses his crime using the correct name of his deed, so that he would be reconciled with his victim. Confession which is defending oneself prevents forgiveness. Hiding one's crime leads to lying.
Lies are like glue which joins evil deeds to one fortress. It is needed absolute honesty to get out of this jail.
Often the confession is given evasively because the truth is considered too humiliating. It is important that a criminal confesses his crime using the correct name of his deed, so that he would be reconciled with his victim. Confession which is defending oneself prevents forgiveness. Hiding one's crime leads to lying.
Lies are like glue which joins evil deeds to one fortress. It is needed absolute honesty to get out of this jail.
Fair judgement is for your health
Because all evil things are not condemned by public opinion, people cannot repent their evil deeds. The truthful condemnation of a bad deed makes it possible to experience a healthy repentance. Indefinite guilt leads easily to sick penances or self-pity.
It reflects the unjust thinking of our time when the doping of athletes is wanted to be added to the criminal law of Finland, though adultery and sexual intercourse between the same sexes are missing there. In the eyes of God adulterers and gays and lesbians deserve the death sentence. It tells about the perverted sense of justice of people when the Finnish coach that supported doping has been threatened to be killed. The rules of sports are made by man, but the sexual behaving is defined by the law of God
Because God has postponed death sentences to the last judgement, some kind of judgement should be added to the criminal law concerning adultery so that this deed would get the judgement of the public opinion. It is really sick thing that crime of homosexuality and lesbianism is accepted by the law, though it should be added to the criminal law. The life style of Sodom and Gomorrah has gained power.
Because all evil things are not condemned by public opinion, people cannot repent their evil deeds. The truthful condemnation of a bad deed makes it possible to experience a healthy repentance. Indefinite guilt leads easily to sick penances or self-pity.
It reflects the unjust thinking of our time when the doping of athletes is wanted to be added to the criminal law of Finland, though adultery and sexual intercourse between the same sexes are missing there. In the eyes of God adulterers and gays and lesbians deserve the death sentence. It tells about the perverted sense of justice of people when the Finnish coach that supported doping has been threatened to be killed. The rules of sports are made by man, but the sexual behaving is defined by the law of God
Because God has postponed death sentences to the last judgement, some kind of judgement should be added to the criminal law concerning adultery so that this deed would get the judgement of the public opinion. It is really sick thing that crime of homosexuality and lesbianism is accepted by the law, though it should be added to the criminal law. The life style of Sodom and Gomorrah has gained power.
The correct address of the confession
It is important to confess one's crime to the victim of one's deed. Many times it happens that one is struggling with one's guilt and one confesses one's crime to a friend, but not to the victim. It is commonly recommended that you should tell your feelings to somebody to get a relief. So did also Judas Iscariot and ended up in a suicide. He had wronged Jesus, but he went to confess the crime to the priests, not to Jesus.
If a crime is made publicly then it also must be confessed publicly, but not before it first has been confessed to the victim.
Every sin against a neighbour is also a sin against God. If you first confess your sin to God and get forgiveness from Him it is for you easier after that to confess your sin to your neighbour. Many times it happens that God gave you His forgiveness but your neighbour didn't forgive. However it is important to confess to the both of them, because the truth will set you free, not the mercy of man.
It is important to confess one's crime to the victim of one's deed. Many times it happens that one is struggling with one's guilt and one confesses one's crime to a friend, but not to the victim. It is commonly recommended that you should tell your feelings to somebody to get a relief. So did also Judas Iscariot and ended up in a suicide. He had wronged Jesus, but he went to confess the crime to the priests, not to Jesus.
If a crime is made publicly then it also must be confessed publicly, but not before it first has been confessed to the victim.
Every sin against a neighbour is also a sin against God. If you first confess your sin to God and get forgiveness from Him it is for you easier after that to confess your sin to your neighbour. Many times it happens that God gave you His forgiveness but your neighbour didn't forgive. However it is important to confess to the both of them, because the truth will set you free, not the mercy of man.
What I did was wrong!
Pretending Christianity has created the culture of apologising, though the Bible speaks very little about apologising. Instead of that it speaks much about forgiving and confessing your sins. An unrepentant person has even no right to apologise. Is he trying to atone his bad deed with apologising? He must first humble himself to tell how much he is sorry about what he did. Then he should seek how he could compensate his deed and finally he can apologise.
The formal Christianity is so blind when stressing apologising that they even cannot read the Bible correctly. They say: "Jesus teaches that you must forgive your brother even seventy-seven times a day, if he apologises you." They create with these speeches such an image that you must get forgiveness endlessly if only you ask it. But listen to Jesus: "If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, 'I repent', forgive him." Luke 17:4
Pretending Christianity has created the culture of apologising, though the Bible speaks very little about apologising. Instead of that it speaks much about forgiving and confessing your sins. An unrepentant person has even no right to apologise. Is he trying to atone his bad deed with apologising? He must first humble himself to tell how much he is sorry about what he did. Then he should seek how he could compensate his deed and finally he can apologise.
The formal Christianity is so blind when stressing apologising that they even cannot read the Bible correctly. They say: "Jesus teaches that you must forgive your brother even seventy-seven times a day, if he apologises you." They create with these speeches such an image that you must get forgiveness endlessly if only you ask it. But listen to Jesus: "If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, 'I repent', forgive him." Luke 17:4
Repenting one gets forgiveness without asking it
God forgives him who confesses his sins, not him who apologises them. Apologising is not needed, for He forgives without asking it.
"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and, will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." 1John 1:9
Every man regrets sometimes, but only few dare to come back to their victim and say: 'I repent. I have wronged you'.Every man knows that he has wronged God but only them who believe in Jesus dare to confess their sins to God using the correct names of sins - because they know that the atoning blood of Jesus is enough for God to reconcile everything.
God forgives him who confesses his sins, not him who apologises them. Apologising is not needed, for He forgives without asking it.
"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and, will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." 1John 1:9
Every man regrets sometimes, but only few dare to come back to their victim and say: 'I repent. I have wronged you'.Every man knows that he has wronged God but only them who believe in Jesus dare to confess their sins to God using the correct names of sins - because they know that the atoning blood of Jesus is enough for God to reconcile everything.
The Bible version used in references is NIV