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How can God allow us in His presence if He does not tolerate sin?

Earlier this week I asked (paraphrased) if God can be less that wholly righteous and accept us even though we have sinned. TLS answered that He can't be less that righteous or else He would not be God.

Then I asked if there was anything we could do to make ourselves worthy to stand before God. No1home2day answered that there is no good deed or number of good deeds that we can do to cover the stain of a single sin. Once we have sinned, we are doomed.

I then asked what was the penalty of sin. Doug answered that the penalty of sin is to be judged and thown into the Lake of Fire, which is an everlasting punishment,

But the Bible clearly states that God wants us to dwell with Him, and if so, then what is His plan to make this happen? How does He reconcile His intolerance for sin and our inability to cleanse ourselves of sin?

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  • 10 years ago
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    Jesus' blood washes the sin away. We are saved by grace, through faith in Jesus Christ. God will always be righteous, and He will not permit sin into His presence, however Jesus lowered himself and became a man that he should redeem us by His blood on the cross. Yes, He does want us to dwell with Him, and for that very reason He made a way through His Son. He loves us enough to extend his forgiveness and grace to those who reach out to him in faith, making Him Lord and Savior of their lives. My sin is washed away by the blood of the Lamb. And should I commit sin after being saved, I can humbly repent and seek His forgiveness once again. He knows our plight, not because He ever sinned, but because He is God, and He walked this earth as a man acquainted with grief and tempted just as we are.

  • MOMMAH
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    The BLOOD of JESUS CHRIST makes US worthy to STAND before GOD - HE wouldn't see a child of the devil, but a CHILD of GOD, through HIS GRACE and MERCY HE gave this GIFT of SALVATION....HE shed HIS BLOOD for OUR SINS to REDEEM US. When WE ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST as OUR SAVIOUR - GOD dwells INSIDE of US so when WE SEE HIM HE will NOT deny US because HE would be DENYING HIMSELF. "His plan to make this happen" is by the HOLY GHOST - once SAVED the HOLY GHOST dwells in the CHRISTIAN (BELIEVER). (2 CORINTHIANS 6:16, REVELATION 21:3) GOD'S SPIRIT dwells in US - WE are the TEMPLE of GOD. ( 1 CORINTHIANS 3:16- 18, 1 CORITNTHIANS 6:18-20, JOHN 2:21)

    ROMANS 3:12-31, ROMANS 5-8 (whole chapters), 2 TIMOTHY 2:3-6, 2 TIMOTHY 10-15, 2 CORINTHIANS 5:15-21, GALATIONS 3:12-14

    IF you would READ these VERSES you would UNDERSTAND.

    Source(s): JESUS IS LORD!!!!
  • 10 years ago

    We were created pure, whole, perfect, and we remain as this. Sin is a human concept that "seems" to exist in the dream delusion of separation from That, which we have never left (called God by some, Source, by some, Creator/All That Is/The One/The Absolute, etc. by others...apply your preferred name, it does not change That Which Is, and always was and will be). This One we call God has no awareness of sin, which is man-made. In His/Its (metaphorical) eyes, we are perfect beings, created in His/Its image. We have never left the Kingdom of Heaven/Garden of Eden, except to fall asleep and dream of doing so. We are still, and always will be, in the presence of our Creator. Only the delusion of our collective dream implies otherwise. We are the one perfect Son/Daughter/Self. The penalty of sin (in the dream of separation) is suffering, the metaphorical "lake of fire." It (suffering) will persist as long as we perceive ourselves to be separate from God/Source and from one another. We can awaken from the dream (cleanse ourselves of perceived sin) and realize we've never left God/Source nor has God/Source ever left us.

    i am Sirius

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Understand that Jesus died for believing sinners. We cannot reach paradise on our own merit. Remember, the holy God will not let sin go unpunished. If we bore our own sins, we would suffer judgment in the flames of hell. But God sacrificed Jesus as the believer’s perfect Substitute.

    The Scripture says, “For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified [made righteous/good] by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation [restored relationship].

    “Therefore, just as through one man [Adam] sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned. . . . So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men. For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 5:6-12; 18-21).

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  • 10 years ago

    Jesus paid the price for our sin. Receive Jesus and the Holy Spirit will begin the purifying and refining process in you and get you ready to meet the Lord. When God sees me, He sees Jesus in me and I'm sanctified.

  • 10 years ago

    Because once the redeemed get to Heaven they will never sin again. They are sealed.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    God is so Holy that He cannot look upon sin. That's why He forsook His Son Jesus when Jesus took our sins upon Himself.

    God cannot tolerate or look upon our sin either. That's why we have to be covered with the blood of Jesus Christ before we can be in God's Presence even in prayer.

    When we repent of our sins and are water baptised by full immersion as adults into Christ's death and buried with Him by baptism into death (Romans 6: 3 & 4), through our faith in Christ Jesus and water baptism we actually ' put on Christ' and become children of God (Galatians 3: 26 & 27) Then instead of having our own righteousness which is as filthy rags in God's sight, we are covered with Christ's righteousness, His righteousness is imputed unto us. Then God can receive us in prayer or up in heaven. It is only in baptism that Jesus Christ can wash us from our sins in His own blood (Rev 1:5) and it is only in baptism that God Himself will then remove our old man (Romans 6:6) which is our old filthy, unrighteous, fleshly, carnal Adamic sin nature.

    We are all born through the Adamic sin nature, spiritually dead in trespasses and sins, serving Satan in his kingdom of darkness, cut off from God spiritually and on our way to hell. That's why we must be born all over again, not of our mother's womb the next time but of water (that's baptism) and Holy Spirit, in order to enter God's kingdom (John 3:3-5). Unless we are born again, we CANNOT enter God's kingdom (John 3:5).

    So make no mistake, God cannot look upon or tolerate sin. We have to be washed in Christ's blood (Rev 1:5) which only happens in baptism, we have to have our old sin nature removed in baptism (Rom 6:6) and be found in Christ's righteousness and not our own (Philippians 3:9) or we will be cast out.

    That's what the parable of the Marriage Feast is all about. The servant who went to the Wedding Feast (represents Christ's Marriage Supper of the Lamb to the Church) without having on a Wedding Garment (represents Christ's righteousness not our own) was sussed out immediately, bound hand and foot, taken away and cast into outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 22: 1-14). That servant had on no Wedding Garment. He was not clothed, but was found naked (2 Corinthians 5:3). Naked means exposed by his own self-righteousness and not Christ's imputed righteousness (Romans 4:22 -24)

  • ?
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    Religionists are so facile in their responses to critical questions. Oh, they say, there's a "seal" on Heaven's gate that protects those who manage to get in. (That, of course, was simply pulled out a religionist's butt, as there is no scriptural reference to such a "seal." or such protections in Heaven, a place that surely doesn't need protection! Unless everything religionists say about religion is as false as the rest of us know it to be.)

    Atheism is the only thing that can rescue humankind from the horrible abyss that is all religions. JOIN US!

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    this would be the point in time where you realize that its a bunch of bullsht and you stop going to church and talking to preachers.

    i dont worry about these absurd things anymore...

  • ?
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    I would not want to be in the presence of an entity that does not tolerate not doing wat it wants you to do.

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