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Does God forgive sins? · Apolog

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Does God forgive sins?

The passages offer forgiveness, deny it to Joshua's audience, and make it depend on forgiving others. They give different answers and conditions rather than one unrestricted promise.

Textual conflict: Interpretive tension; The passages pull in different directions, but the conflict depends on how their wording, scope, or narrative context is read.
Importance: Foundational; A central claim about origins, salvation, divine justice, or religious authority.

Promises of forgiveness contrast with Joshua's categorical refusal, but the audiences and conditions are not securely identical.

An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.

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God promises forgiveness to people who repent or confess

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.

2 Chronicles 7:14

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

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And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Jeremiah 31:34

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

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If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:9

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

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Joshua says God will not forgive Israel's sins

And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.

Joshua 24:19

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

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God withholds forgiveness from people who refuse to forgive others

But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matthew 6:15

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

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Understanding the contradiction

2 Chronicles 7:14 promises forgiveness when God's people humble themselves, pray, seek him, and abandon wickedness. 1 John 1:9 likewise connects confession with forgiveness and cleansing. Jeremiah 31:34 looks forward to God forgiving iniquity and no longer remembering sin. These passages present forgiveness as something God does, though their audiences and stated circumstances are not identical.

Joshua 24:19 tells the assembled people that their holy and jealous God will not forgive their transgressions or sins. Its language is categorical within that address and stands against the forgiving character presented elsewhere. Matthew 6:15 adds another explicit barrier: people who do not forgive others will not receive the Father's forgiveness. That does not amount to a universal denial of forgiveness, but it makes confession alone an incomplete statement of the conditions. A careful comparison separates God's capacity to forgive from the question of whom he forgives and under what circumstances. These excerpts disagree in their assurances and requirements; they do not all assert opposite outcomes for an explicitly identical person in an explicitly identical situation.

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contradiction2 ChroniclesJeremiah1 JohnJoshuaMatthew

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