>>>IF the horrific sinner is sorrowful for sin, God will forgive.
God does HATE sin in His children, but not the sinning child.
Every person is a magnificent creation of God that has become infected with the malignancy of sin. He wants you to accept the vaccine delivered by the blood of Jesus.
If a person is ‘good’ but never takes the vaccine, that person is just as doomed as the ‘bad’ person who defies God to His face...<<<
JOAT: That was exactly what I was thinking. Sin is a tumor and God is the vaccine.....well, something like that anyhow.....
OK JOAT: But what happens if you ‘fall off the wagon’ so to speak? Can you get back on?
Of course!
The Parable of the Lost Sheep
Matthew 18:10-14
10 "See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. 12 "What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? 13 And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. 14 In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.
The Shepherd (GOD) is so concerned about just one of His sheep wandering off, (straying, 'falling away') that He leaves the 99 sheep who have not strayed and goes searching for the one precious lost one.
Other parables by Jesus are essentially the same; the parable of the lost coin is one.
Revelation 2 even describes a whole congregation that had tolerated a false teacher.(straying) Verse 22: I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways.
So long as the person is sorrowful and authentically wants to be forgiven, God is faithful and will do so.