Will Christ forgive and help a serious backslider?

Answer 1

If you ask GOD for forgiveness, He will forgive you but you have to try to do better and He will help you. Pray and don't take it as a joke because GOD loves all of us and He has serious love for us. Forget about the past and keep trying until the end.

ANSWER

Yes! Absolutely.

Please understand that God forgives only on the basis of Christ's sacrifice on the cross 2000 years ago. This holds true for believers as well as unbelievers. When an unbeliever turns to Christ for salvation, all their sin is blotted out based on the shed blood of Christ. From that moment on, that person has eternal life and is a son or daughter of God. Most often, a backslider is referred to as one who has been born again but has fallen from fellowship with the Lord through sin. If this is your case, then the guilt of your sin is already forgiven. However, if you wish to re-establish fellowship with God you must confess your sin to Him in repentance. Once unconfessed sin is then confessed, that person is returned to full fellowship with their Lord. Many times backslidden Christians confess sin, sometimes terrible sin, but believe they are still far from God because they don't feel forgiven. Feelings don't save us nor do they restore us to God. Faith is the means by which we relate to God. At salvation, one trusts Christ and they are born again, whether they feel so or not. God cannot lie. Everyone who trusts Christ for salvation is saved. Scripture says so. To disbelieve this on the basis of feelings is to call God a liar. It's the same for restoration to God of one who has backslidden. Once sin is confessed there is instant restoration of fellowship with God, whether it is felt or not. Again, to disbelieve restoration based on a lack of feelings is to call God a liar. I assure you based on scripture, that a child of God is instantly restored to fellowship with God once sin is confessed. Look at 1John 1:9. The story of the prodigal son is a perfect example of this situation.

If, by the term backslider, you mean one who has had an "on again-off again" relationship with God but has never trusted Christ for salvation, then confession will gain nothing. That person needs to be saved. Once saved, there is instant fellowship with the Lord, and all subsequent broken fellowship with God is restored based on confession alone.

God is Love. And it is His love that drove Him to die on the cross so long ago, in order to restore man to Himself. Anyone, and that means any person, that wishes to have a relationship with God can do so. There is one unpardonable sin, and that sin is failure to trust Christ for salvation. If a person fails to trust Christ then there is nothing God can do for them or their sin, because all sin is resolved on the cross. Men and women can do and say all they want to draw near to God, but if not done through the sacrifice of Christ all efforts are fruitless.

ANSWER

Yes, Pray and ask him, he will forgive you! He loves you so much!

GOD came down in a form of a man, it was all His plan because man was dammed ever since the foundation, creation of sin! (it rhymed). He died for you and me on that rugged tree, just to save us because He loves us so much! I cant think of someone dying for me and not saying a mumbling word! God is so Good! Accept Him today because tomorrow is not promised! ~GOD Bless!