Skeptic answered : Does God forgive all sins?


 
 
 
 

 
Does God forgive sins?
Yes No
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Jeremiah 31:34
I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins. 
 To get a wholistic teaching on the unpardonable sin go to resources below for further study:
http://carm.org/bible-difficulties/matthew-mark/can-you-be-forgiven-all-sins-or-not
 http://www.tektonics.org/uz/unforgiven.html























Joshua 24:19
God ... will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. 
The skeptic's annotated bible gives this table and claims this as a contradiction.

ANSWER:
The skeptic's as usual are quoting this verse out of context , setting up a strawman argument.
God does not forgive one sin according to the bible ,which is blasphemy against the holy spirit. 
Here Joshua is warning the Israelites that if they sin willfully after entering into a covenant with God then "they" cannot expect to receive forgiveness from God. This is with regard to those people who are there and who are pledging allegiance to God by entering into a covenant relationship with him. This does not mean God will never forgive sins at all .He will not forgive their apostasy and return to idol worship after receiving the light of revelation about God.
The skeptic reading a contradiction among these passages is very wrong, considering other passages where he promises to forgive sins , especially in the new covenant in which forgiveness of sins is granted in Jesus' name, except the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.

John Gill explains this thus,
"he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins; even the transgressions and sins of such that forsake the worship and service of him, and fall into idolatry, or who seek for justification by their own services, these are both abominable to him; otherwise he is a God pardoning the iniquity, transgression, and sin, of all those who seek unto him and serve him, confess their sins, and renounce their own righteousness; see Exodus 23:21."

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