Is it possible ot commit one sin to free yourself from the rest?

Question:I was thinking about this: if you committed this one sin, you knew no one would ever know, but it would free you from other sins, free you from this material world...would you do it? also knowing and understanding the notion of karma [what goes around comes back around]...so would you do it? also do you think that that concept is possible, like do you think that committing that one sin is possible to free you from other sins? I'm sorry for rambling, but i've just been thinking about this.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I was thinking about this: if you committed this one sin, you knew no one would ever know, but it would free you from other sins, free you from this material world...would you do it? also knowing and understanding the notion of karma [what goes around comes back around]...so would you do it? also do you think that that concept is possible, like do you think that committing that one sin is possible to free you from other sins? I'm sorry for rambling, but i've just been thinking about this.

It would be a trick. That is not the pathway to the destination you require. It's like saying if I could slap God in the face then I'd be free of ever doing it again. It can't have the result you are trying to dreaming of. I see the paradox you are trying to
construct but there is not possiblity of it in the case of sin.
Interesting thinking session though. Thanks.

Sin leads to Sin-Lies beget Lies. Like you said what goes around comes around, so I do not think it is possible to commit a sin that frees you from all the others. Only acknowldgement of the sins and redemption referring to forgiveness or absolution for past sins and protection from eternal damnation will free you from all the other sins.

If we stick to the theory of karma, you would have to return here, if only to make good for that one sin, seeing that, whatever the aim and motive of it, it was committed here.

This is a philosophical question and it leads to many interesting discussions.

I think no. If you have done something wrong, you can't free yourself from it by doing something else wrong. You have to go back and face what you did wrong in the first place. From a Christian point of view, to get forgiveness for the first sins, you'd have to be sincere in your desire to not sin again, so you can't get salvation through a sin. From a Buddhist point of view, karma is more than what goes around comes around. This is a Western perspective on karma. The Buddhist understanding of karma is based in your motivation and how your actions affect you and others. So it is unlikely in this sense that a sin that you commit just to free yourself of others has the right motivation, action or affect on others to bring you good karma- likely it would just increase the bad karma. But in Buddhism, the concept of sin and guilt is different so maybe it is irrelevant to your question.

that question is similar to the moral dilemma of "is it stealing, if you take bread to feed your family without paying for it?"...such that, it is presumptuous to think there is "sin" to begin with...therefore, I would have to say, based on your definition of "sin", you would still be left with that one "sin" you committed to free yourself from the others...thus, God still hates you and will damn you to eternal hell.

Although, I choose to rather believe in a God that actually sets no limits on our ability to experience this world and would "rather" have us experience it through love vs. selfishness and fear. Such that, the God I trust let's bygones be bygones, considering It knows we're human and completely fallible and make countless mistakes. If one chooses to think our mistakes are in fact "sins", then that is their burden to carry internally...and that is the key. How much "sin" can one live with internally for a lifetime before they start to feel a conviction of "love" vs. the habitual justification they're continually talking themselves into regarding their faults, i.e. sins.

peace,

Baldy

Definitely; e.g. telling a lie to save Anne Frank does far more good than evil, assuming her death is considered a great evil, and the lie to the official of the Third Reich is considered a little evil or "white lie."

If one's "karma" were e.g. at 50% "paid," and this one act moved one, per a "net gain" of "1%," to "51% karma-free," one would be freed from the wheel of gravity-sin rebirth, and able to work upon balancing the remainder of one's debt to other parts of Life from the Retreats on the inner planes.

Sources: "The Path of the Higher Self" and "The Masters and Their Retreats," Mark Prophet;
"Watch Your Dreams" and "Men in White Apparel," Ann Ree Colton;
"The Path of Virtue," Jonathan Murro;
"Light Is a Living Spirit" and "The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil," O. M. Aivanhov;
"Autobiography of a Yogi," Yogananda, http://www.yogananda-srf.org
http://www.easwaran.org
"Babies Remember Birth," David Chamberlain, Ph.D.;
"Life before Life," Jim Tucker, M.D.;
"Mindsight," Ken Ring, M.D.

Nb this posited situation does not necessarily occur with significant frequency. Hence, a measured and steady progress is preferred...and all spiritual progress "begins with 'Purity.'"

The only way to be free from your sins is to SURRENDER them. Jesus Christ died as the perfect sacrifice to take them away. They are washed white as snow. We all still sin....I mean think about it...even our thoughts are sinful. But we can be forgiven.

There is not any instance where committing a sin will free you from your other sins. In fact the very notion that something YOU can do to free yourself from sins is the sin of pride. Also, there is no such thing as NO ONE ever knowing because God is always there and so are you.

You aren't rambling and I thought this was a good question. Just remember this. Jesus became sin for us. He died for us as a reconciliation back to the Father. It really is quite freeing isn't it? I hope that you feel that peace right now as you look to HIM for your salvation>

God Bless You.

First of all, and I say this without sarcasm or irony of any kind, please don't kill yourself. You are more valuable than you may know. Every life is precious. I'm sorry if this paragraph is presumptuous, but your reference to freedom from the material world concerns me.

Second, you can't free yourself from sins by committing another sin. One new wrong doesn't make the old wrongs right.

Third, we are all sinners, and we will be sinners to the day we die. If you are a Christian, please remember that God does not promise to make us sinless in this life--He promises only to forgive the sins of those who believe in Him and who are also willing to change their ways.

Third, an obsessive quest to purify your soul can only lead to self-destruction. If you're a non-believer, like me, then forget about karma and the concept of total freedom from sin. Stop obsessing about these things, and turn your mind toward trying to be good one day at at time.

Humanity isn't divided into good and evil, saved and unsaved, stained and pure. Humanity is one big group--Sinners Anonymous. We can't erase our sins--only a god could do that. All we can do is try to be good one day at a time.

Jim

i think that it depends on the severity of the sins, if one can prevent more than i'd go with the one