Christians, if you sincerely ask Jesus to forgive your sins, but you haven't been forgiving others their sins, will Jesus ignore you?

The only way to be forgiven is to forgive others and also forgive yourself. Jesus has naught to do with it.

Repentance means that you don't do it again!

That is 'sincerity'!

If you do it again, you weren't sincere, so you never repented the first time, just an egoic hocus-pocus!

In Matthew 18:15 When asked what to do if a brother offends him, Jesus tells Peter, Take him and tell him in private' if he repents (a change of mind leading to changed behaviour), then you have gained a brother." If the person who is offending doesn't repent the person is to take another brother with Him to confront him, and if still no repentance, take him before the who congregation, and if still no repentance, treat him as "anathema" Cast out", and have nothing more to deal with him.

One thing I have learned about the Bible is that while everything in the original Greek text is true, not everything is always the complete teaching. I used to work as a Registered Nurse in hospitals for 20 years. The teaching about confronting a person in the way Jesus describes is both the most effective thing you can do to repair a relationship and the most honest. The supposed teaching to keep forgiving someone even though they continue to abuse you every day is both psychologically impossible and if done long enough will attract every abuser for mile around to your door.

Anyone who is truly sincere in asking Jesus to forgive his/her sins will forgive the sins of others.

I have to work on this myself.

But are you trying with God's help...that is why you are praying presumably.

And as Newman said, forgiveness is basically the answer to the question, Would you be upset if that person were found in Heaven, not damned"?

Don't make something that is a matter of Faith a matter of emotion.

Who is a Christian's brother or sister? A liar would say, "All are my brothers and sisters. A secular person would say, "My family members are my siblings who my parents gave birth to". A Christian would say, "Only other Christians are my brothers and sisters". Now the question is does everyone else out side of Christianity understand 2 Corinthians 6:14-18? Of course not so they make misleading statements about the truth. Do people outside of Christianity understand Galatians 6:10? Of course not so they think they understand who deserves to be called brother or sister. John 3:18 makes it plain who the "believer's family" is and isn't, but again non-Christians think they know what family is.

Mark 3:32-35 A Christian's mother, brothers and sisters are listed in this passage since we are not greater than our master. And no student ever is.

Secular people believe otherwise, but in truth only believers with faith in Jesus Christ are our family.

Depends where you read. In many instances, no mention is made of how you forgive others.

Other places seem to show that the forgiving way is indeed the ideal pattern.

However, as to whether you attitude can be toxic to God's attitude, well, I am skeptical.

Obviously Jesus wants us all to forgive each other and play nice in the sandbox, but I think it's a given that we fail to live up to this ideal. Does God come down to our level and smite us because we are not nice to others? Of course not.

The point is not what others ought to do, you see. It never was. The point is that YOU need to take care that YOU have done what YOU are supposed to do and not worry about that other guy over there. There's even a story about that in the Bible.

So when you think, "Are those evil awful people over there okay?" Just stop and beat your breast (or the 21st century equivalent) and cry out, "Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner!"

God will take care of those folks; you don't need to worry about them. Yeah, I know that spoils all the fun, but there it IS.

We are saved because we need salvation. If it were possible to be perfect, then we wouldn't need Jesus. We are washed clean by the blood of Jesus, and we are washed clean when we receive Jesus through faith and not before. If we had to be sin-free first, then none of us would stand a chance.

They think so, but no.

Accept Jesus into your heart you way

Amen.