Why it is not possible to sell your soul - discuss
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Our souls have been bought with the blood of Jesus and belong to God. There is no way to sell your soul to the devil as it does not belong to you in the first place. Therefore in the case of those who have been led astray... do not be conned by devil worshippers who claim that once your soul is sold your fate is sealed - the path to repentance and the door to heaven is always open.
This is not to say that we should dabble in the occult. Although Satan has no hold over our souls he can still direct his minions to destroy our physical bodies or cause all manner of grievious harm. -
So, God use Jesus' blood to buy from whom?
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It just means, we are here on earth temporarily. Eternal life is waiting for us and that is ours.
Now our soul belongs to God. And it has always been that way. -
That was not what skibi saidOriginally posted by mhcampboy:It just means, we are here on earth temporarily. Eternal life is waiting for us and that is ours.
Now our soul belongs to God. And it has always been that way. -
this was not what mhcampboy said...Originally posted by pretzel:That was not what skibi said -
So god bought our souls from the devil with the blood of jesus? And now we belong to god?Originally posted by Skibi:Our souls have been bought with the blood of Jesus and belong to God. There is no way to sell your soul to the devil as it does not belong to you in the first place. Therefore in the case of those who have been led astray... do not be conned by devil worshippers who claim that once your soul is sold your fate is sealed - the path to repentance and the door to heaven is always open.
This is not to say that we should dabble in the occult. Although Satan has no hold over our souls he can still direct his minions to destroy our physical bodies or cause all manner of grievious harm. -
Originally posted by outofcontrol225:
The devil never had our souls in the first place. If the devil had our souls Enoch would not have been able to go directly to heaven.
So god bought our souls from the devil with the blood of jesus? And now we belong to god?Romans 6:23 NIV
According to the bible, everyone who sin must die. God bought our souls so that those who do not follow the Jewish tradition of offering burnt offerings to absolve their sins can be saved.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. -
I finally get it now. God owned our souls in the first place but still made jesus pay with his blood. So, now that god has bought our souls from himself using jesus' blood, our souls still belong to god. That makes so much sense.Originally posted by Skibi:According to the bible, everyone who sin must die. God bought our souls so that those who do not follow the Jewish tradition of offering burnt offerings to absolve their sins can be saved. -
Originally posted by outofcontrol225:
We forfeited our right to heaven because of sin. That's why Adam and Eve were cast out of Eden. To enter heaven in the Old Testament one had to cultivate a holy character and do good deeds in addition to offering burnt offerings regularly to absolve any sins commited.
I finally get it now. God owned our souls in the first place but still made jesus pay with his blood. So, now that god has bought our souls from himself using jesus' blood, our souls still belong to god. That makes so much sense.
Everytime we sin, we are essentially selling our souls to sin(or attempting to sell). However the power of Jesus' blood is such that it is enough to pay for all the sins we commit in the past, present and future. Thus our souls belong to God no matter what we do because of Jesus' sacrifice - in the past this was not the case.
This is not to say that we should sin with impunity as ultimately God will judge whether your character is holy enough to enter the kingdom of heaven. -
Right. So, god bought our souls with jesus' blood from who?Originally posted by Skibi:We forfeited our right to heaven because of sin. That's why Adam and Eve were cast out of Eden. To enter heaven in the Old Testament one had to cultivate a holy character and do good deeds in addition to offering burnt offerings regularly to absolve any sins commited.
Everytime we sin, we are essentially selling our souls to sin(or attempting to sell). However the power of Jesus' blood is such that it is enough to pay for all the sins we commit in the past, present and future. Thus our souls belong to God no matter what we do because of Jesus' sacrifice - in the past this was not the case.
This is not to say that we should sin with impunity as ultimately God will judge whether your character is holy enough to enter the kingdom of heaven. -
Oh Oh Oh, I get it. Jesus paid god his blood for our sins. So, our souls belong to jesus now.
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Skibi did it again.
Now Men are trading tools between God and satan......
Buying and selling sial!
His doctrines just gets more interesting each time. -
SkibiOriginally posted by Skibi:We forfeited our right to heaven because of sin. That's why Adam and Eve were cast out of Eden. To enter heaven in the Old Testament one had to cultivate a holy character and do good deeds in addition to offering burnt offerings regularly to absolve any sins commited.
Everytime we sin, we are essentially selling our souls to sin(or attempting to sell). However the power of Jesus' blood is such that it is enough to pay for all the sins we commit in the past, present and future. Thus our souls belong to God no matter what we do because of Jesus' sacrifice - in the past this was not the case.
This is not to say that we should sin with impunity as ultimately God will judge whether your character is holy enough to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Holy character... biblically, this would means flawless, perfectly righteous, complete and without blemish (not a single spot), meaning have to achieve 100% not more, not less, must be exact. 99.99% still not good enough.
(oh.... good deeds does not cancel bad deeds/mistakes)
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Maybe indulgence might help haha
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Originally posted by vince69:
If our character is deemed worthy in God's eyes even the smallest good deed counts and God will absolve our sins. Thus as long as we make genuine effort to cultivate a holy character and perform good deeds, God will absolve any sins that we make along the way. In this way we can be as holy as God - the only way one can enter heaven. 100% good and 0% evil.
Skibi
Holy character... biblically, this would means flawless, perfectly righteous, complete and without blemish (not a single spot), meaning have to achieve 100% not more, not less, must be exact. 99.99% still not good enough.
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I kinda agree. If u do penance and make sacrifices, u will atone ur sins. As a catholic, whenever u attend Mass and participate in the sacrifice, u make a perfect sacrifice with infinte merits to atone ur sins. Furthermore, u can undergo the sacrament of penance to allow the Church to exercise her apostolic powers of binding and loosing sins.Originally posted by Skibi:If our character deemed worthy in God's eyes even the smallest good deed counts and God will absolve our sins. Thus as long as we make genuine effort to cultivate a holy character and perform good deeds, God will absolve any sins that we make along the way. In this way we can be as holy as God. 100% good and 0% evil.
Penance, sacrifice, Mass, Confession - the key to victory. -
I thank God for redeeming us through Christ
My good deeds is to reflect God's goodness.
'Selling your soul' is just a figure of speech. The devil cannot own you because he has no authority to. He cannot buy you because he does not have anything to pay with. -
Christ - The Key to victory.Originally posted by sillyme:I thank God for redeeming us through Christ
My good deeds is to reflect God's goodness.
'Selling your soul' is just a figure of speech. The devil cannot own you because he has no authority to. He cannot buy you because he does not have anything to pay with. -
Why you never mention Jesus?Originally posted by Pope Nicholas:I kinda agree. If u do penance and make sacrifices, u will atone ur sins. As a catholic, whenever u attend Mass and participate in the sacrifice, u make a perfect sacrifice with infinte merits to atone ur sins. Furthermore, u can undergo the sacrament of penance to allow the Church to exercise her apostolic powers of binding and loosing sins.
Penance, sacrifice, Mass, Confession - the key to victory.
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Penance and sacrifice brings u closer to JesusOriginally posted by Icemoon:Why you never mention Jesus?
Mass is ALL ABT JESUS
Confession is abt following Christ commandments and seeing the priest in persona christi haha.
All is abt Christ especially MASS> -
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Not say i dun wan to sell. That day satan come and ask me sell my soul to him. I say ok lah if you can pay me as well as God does, then he tries to bargain with me, damn niao lor! I tell him, if he go die for me, i also will sell to him but he say dun wan lah, this and that lah....DAMN LAME lah..and so poor still wanna buy my soul...siao.
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the souls of humakind by default are sold to satan since the fall of Man.
that is why Christ came to redeem us through His blood. -
I dont like buying and selling.
I prefer, after the Fall, our souls became Tainted with Satan. Christ blood washes away this Stain of Satan. If we dont get baptised in Christ, the Stain remains.
This is so Orignal Sin haha. -
I reject all the buying and selling rubbish.
You mean God need to do business with Satan? Where is His sovereignity then?