HOW MANY TIMES CAN A SIN BE FORGIVEN?
There is gotta be something that you have done that you went to church, confessed your sin and after that, you did it again! I just wonder if anybody knows a biblical citation that says how many times a sin can be forgiven. I mean, you know you did wrong, go to church, confess it and do it again, seems to me like you did not care about the advice given or the fact that you were forgiven by your priest, pastor, leader, etc.
I know I am one of the people above, and that is why I ask you this question. Sometimes for example, say you get mad at your friend and you insulted him, then you go and confess it and you are forgiven. Then, next week, something happen, and you did it again. Are there any boundaries for our creator to forgive us more than one time?
Say for example, a gay person who lives with the guilt of being gay, and does something wrong and goes to church to confess it, and he is told he is forgiven but he has to stop doing that, but he does it again because he cannot help it. What would your advice be in this one?
Personally, before when I used to go to church, I used to commit the same mistake over again, and it got to a point that I felt uncomfortable going to church to be forgiven because maybe the priest will listen from me the same sin over again. I guess this is one of the reasons also, I decided to stop going to any church and create my own which is to have a personal communication with God, and feel guilty with my head down pretending I am confessing personally with him, do you think this work? Do you think I will deserve salvation or I am hallucinating things that do not exist?