A man called Pusey wrote,'God does not half-forgive,so man must not half repent',I am very pleased that God does not half -forgive ,and very relieved.To teach in anyway that God only half forgives sins,would mean leaving us under a cloud of guilt, and fear that I am not saved,having no assurance of eternal life. The thought that we are only half forgiven, would undermine Christs atoning death,and would go against the clear teaching of scripture. It is in Hebrews, chap's 8- 10 in which it deals with the ineffectiveness of the animal sacrifices,and the effectiveness of Christs sacrifice. 8 v12 reads God declaring,' For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more'.Raymond Brown writes,' God remembers His mercy and forgets our sins.It is the devil who tries to remind us of both former sins and our present weakness'.It is the apostle John who writes in Chap 1v9 of his first epistle that,'the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sins'. It was Horatio G. Spafford who wrote the hymn ,'When peace like a river', the third verse reads.
'My sin,O the bliss of this glorious thought !
My sin,not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to His cross and I bear them no more;
Praise the Lord,praise the Lord,O my soul'
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