It's not that easy, you have to be genuinely repentant not to mention afterwards you need to keep moving forward in being the person Christ truly created you as doing good works and struggling for your salvation against sin. You can't just ask for forgiveness and it's all good. As the left say you have to make repreations for your past crimes. This is what God accepts, a truly repentant heart.
This is why you are a human and not God as God is Love and His forgiveness is beyond what we understand. He isn't just as we think in human terms because we would want justice for certain things but all God desires is for us to repent, follow Him and have a heart turned to His will.
It's up to God to decide, much like the right thief on the cross was truly repentant and accepted into heaven.
Also, I am Orthodox not Catholic so I don't know anything about deathbed confessions. I do know we are supposed to live a repentant life attending Liturgy, partaking of Communion, and going to confession. All of this helps us live a life pleasing to Christ.
Man has man's own laws to be followed and God said we should follow them as long as it doesn't conflict with Him. Example being forced to worship idols. But after we repose God is the judge of us.
Unless they repent and ask for forgiveness.
I don’t think it’s a loophole if those asking for forgiveness are genuine.
I feel like God can tell the difference between genuine faith and people using it as “get out of hell free”.
Agree to disagree.
It's not that easy, you have to be genuinely repentant not to mention afterwards you need to keep moving forward in being the person Christ truly created you as doing good works and struggling for your salvation against sin. You can't just ask for forgiveness and it's all good. As the left say you have to make repreations for your past crimes. This is what God accepts, a truly repentant heart.
No, fuck them all.
This is why you are a human and not God as God is Love and His forgiveness is beyond what we understand. He isn't just as we think in human terms because we would want justice for certain things but all God desires is for us to repent, follow Him and have a heart turned to His will.
It's up to God to decide, much like the right thief on the cross was truly repentant and accepted into heaven.
Also, I am Orthodox not Catholic so I don't know anything about deathbed confessions. I do know we are supposed to live a repentant life attending Liturgy, partaking of Communion, and going to confession. All of this helps us live a life pleasing to Christ.
Man has man's own laws to be followed and God said we should follow them as long as it doesn't conflict with Him. Example being forced to worship idols. But after we repose God is the judge of us.
No, fuck that. Public and televised executions.