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To: napscoordinator

One cannot partake in the murder of unborn children 6 days a week then repent on the seventh day, only to start anew on the first day of the new week.

And this is what your post basically says, you can sin every day of your life and while you are sick and dying repent and all is well.

Did she announce she opposed abortion before she passed, no.

By your belief Hitler could have repented the same hour he died and he’s forgiven.


15 posted on 03/28/2011 5:17:04 AM PDT by stockpirate (Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God!)
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To: stockpirate
I agree with you, and I will go a bit further. A politician passes laws which allow other people to act without (obvious) consequences. A politician gives speeches encouraging people in one behaviro or another. Ferraro was involved in politics for decades and persuaded a lot of people to engage in evil behavior. She led them astray.

I'm no theologian, but it seems to me that if I sin in my private life, but honestly repent as my end draws near, then Jesus may forgive my sins -- but if I have labored diligently to lead others into sin over the course of decades, I am not so sure that a quiet little "Sorry, 'bout that" on my deathbed is going to be sufficient.

But I guess we won't know until we stand before the Lord for judgement.

17 posted on 03/28/2011 5:25:24 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: stockpirate
By your belief Hitler could have repented the same hour he died and he’s forgiven.

Well, yeah. That's kind of the general deal with forgiveness: it's open to anyone (even the worst of us) if we repent.

However, mouthing the phonemes that produce the sounds "I'm sorry," isn't the same as heart-felt repentence. If you've spent a lifetime in careless or deliberate evil, it's extremely unlikely, unless you are granted the grace by God, that at the very end of it, you're going to be particularly sorry. You're probably more likely to be self-congratulatory, and to deny that you've done anything wrong. Still, there's hope: As Samuel Johnson once said, the knowledge that one is to be hanged tomorrow clears the mind wonderfully.

And if Hitler does wind up "walking the streets of glory," it won't be because God was taken in by a piece of deathbed verbal sophistry that even we can see through, but because the man was genuinely sorry for what he had done (at least as far as he was able to understand it). If I'm counting on grace for myself, I'm sure not going to be in a hurry to deny it to others.

23 posted on 03/28/2011 6:04:10 AM PDT by Dunstan McShane
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To: stockpirate
By your belief Hitler could have repented the same hour he died and he’s forgiven.

You believe differently?

25 posted on 03/28/2011 6:47:42 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Has "let me be clear" become a drinking game yet?)
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To: stockpirate
By your belief Hitler could have repented the same hour he died and he’s forgiven

I believe that is conventional and also orthodox Christian belief.

37 posted on 03/28/2011 10:05:03 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The Constitution is overthrown. The Revolution is betrayed.)
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