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To: Engedi

In every church I have been to, it has always been taught that as long as you have breath, there is hope for you. Even though her sins are piled as high as heaven, as long as she comes to Jesus and acknowledges her sins and asks forgiveness, He has promised He will forgive.

Now, one would think that there would be some consequences in this life that she would be subject to, and that is up to God. One would hope that if she did truly repent of her sins, she would be compelled by the Lord to turn herself in to the authorities for prosecution. Even though she would be utterly free from any punishment in the afterlife, she will need to answer for her crimes in this life.

Just my opinion.


125 posted on 06/25/2016 6:16:41 AM PDT by hoagy62 ("It's not the whole world gone mad. Just the people in it.")
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To: hoagy62

In the Bible and also taught in my church, that God is a patient God, however, he has been known to turn a heart “cold, like stone” to a point of no return.

Scripture makes it clear that if we relentlessly continue to engage in sin, there will come a time when God will give us over to our “debased mind” and let us have it our way. The apostle Paul writes about God’s wrath of abandonment in his letter to the Romans where we see that godless and wicked “men who suppress the truth” are eventually given over to the sinful desires of their hardened hearts (Romans 1:18–24).


174 posted on 06/25/2016 6:58:17 PM PDT by Engedi
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