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To: D-fendr; Cvengr
So, if I’m understanding you, you can commit any and all sin, not confess any and also be completely unrepentant of same... And still be with God in heaven?

Red herring because someone with that attitude is not saved.

I and others have said it before and I'll say it again.

No believer believes that their security is a license to sin.

Salvation is not fire insurance. It's a restored relationship with the living God which is manifest in a changed life because the person has a new nature.

So if we miss confessing some sin because we forgot or didn't realize that we had sinned (unintentional sins) then we're covered anyway.

Even if we sin deliberately, there is still the issue of God dealing with it here on earth. God chastises those he loves and disciplines us for our own good. No believer, even if they sin deliberately, is getting away with anything.

At the most extreme, God will ensure an early death before losing someone.

God WANTS to save us. He's not looking for excuses to damn us. We're already damned because of our sin. He's basically looking for excuses (if you will) to save us, hence His grace and mercy.

137 posted on 01/24/2014 1:49:51 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: metmom; D-fendr; Cvengr
>> “At the most extreme, God will ensure an early death before losing someone.” <<

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A well known mormon doctrine, but nowhere to be found in Yehova’s word.
On the contrary:

Matthew 24:

[12] And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
[13] But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

139 posted on 01/24/2014 2:08:06 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: metmom

I think you’re making a distinction without a difference.

You seem to be saying one can and sin without repentance and be saved; but no one saved would.

So you can if you are saved, but if you do you are not saved.

IOW, bottom line, you can’t and be saved. Correct?


140 posted on 01/24/2014 2:22:33 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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