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To: metmom

So yes, even if we sin after salvation, it does NOT cost us our salvation or place in heaven. We do not have to repent of every last specific sin to get into heaven.

God is not a petty nit-picky tyrant sitting up there keeping account of every misdeed so he can throw us in hell cause we didn’t do what some religions think we should.

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I’m not talking about every last nit-picky sin. You tell your husband he looks great even though he’s a little portly...meh...it’s a white lie meant to boost his self esteem.

You hire a hitman to shoot your husband between the eyes in order to collect life insurance, repentance is necessary.


53 posted on 09/07/2020 3:28:11 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Bishop_Malachi
I’m not talking about every last nit-picky sin. You tell your husband he looks great even though he’s a little portly...meh...it’s a white lie meant to boost his self esteem. You hire a hitman to shoot your husband between the eyes in order to collect life insurance, repentance is necessary.

Only in human economy.

James 2:8-11 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

In God's economy, sin is sin and ALL sin damns and ALL sin needed the death of Jesus to deal with.

All Adam and Eve did was eat a piece of fruit and that was enough for sin to enter the world and damn them.

Y'all don't realize that it's not the magnitude of the sin as measured by human standards. It's the holy God even the tiniest sin violates and disobeys.

So *big* (in human terms) and *small* (in human terms), makes no difference because both sins are committed against the same God and what makes it sin is not the sin itself, but the disobedience against God that ANY sin is.

58 posted on 09/07/2020 4:43:01 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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