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To: grandpa jones
Are you so confident that the young man has committed an unpardonable, unforgivable sin in the eyes of the Lord?

There is only one sin that is unforgivable. But for a sin to be forgiven, the person must repent. That does not just mean asking for forgiveness - it means to turn away from sin, to stop engaging in the sin. Since this man was "married" to his homosexual partner, there is nothing to indicate that he repented of his homosexual activity. And once he died, the opportunity for forgiveness was past.

60 posted on 08/08/2014 8:17:00 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: CA Conservative

“Since this man was “married” to his homosexual partner, there is nothing to indicate that he repented of his homosexual activity. And once he died, the opportunity for forgiveness was past.”

Nevertheless, a person’s salvation is not for you or I to decide regardless of what we think we know about them. Only Christ has authority in that regard.

I do agree 100% that it’s impossible to repent after one is dead, and all homosexual acts are sinful. Homosexual temptations are not sin, but acting on those temptations is. “Gay” marriage is both a moral and biological impossibility; therefore, one cannot absolve oneself of homosexual sin by “marrying” their same-sex partner(s).

We can pray for the living, but the die is cast once someone is dead.


93 posted on 08/08/2014 10:22:37 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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