The whole hypothetical argument of a believer living in unrepentant sin is just that - it’s hypothetical.
What the problems are on many levels are…..
1) Anyone living in unrepentant sin is not likely a believer in the first place.
2) This argument is often posted by those who scream the loudest when someone else makes a comment about the state of their soul, and then hypocritically then sets up hypothetical scenarios and demand others make the very judgment they just condemned about a person that doesn’t exist.
3) As far as a believer living in sin or sinning, we all struggle with sins where we are weak. Paul addresses this in Romans 7. From the outside, it can look like living in unrepentant sin, but since we don’t know the heart, we do not know how the person feels about the situation they are in.
4) Romans 8:1 tells us that in spite of our struggle with sin as outlined in Romans 7, we are not condemned.
5) It is God’s place to determine the state of a person’s soul, not ours and it’s disingenuous to demand other believers make determinations that are only God’s purview.
6) Proverbs 6:16-19 There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him:
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,
a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
It seems that some on this board are out to deliberately pit Christians against each other, putting themselves squarely in several of the aforementioned categories. They condemn Protestantism as being fractured and thus inferior to their preferred religion, and then turn around and deliberately try to provoke from believers the very thing they claim about Christians since they can’t find any real life examples to use.
7For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die.
8But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.
10For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
11And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Romans 5:6-11 NASB
1) Anyone living in unrepentant sin is not likely a believer in the first place.
By all accounts Ravi was the Gold Standard “saved” Christian.