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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
Christians sin and repent until the day they die.
This is news?
Please.

The whole point of being a Chrisitian is that you TRY earnestly to amend your life to be in accord with the ways of God. When you thereafter do not achieve perfection (you fall into sin) you understand that God's mercy is available and is the answer.

There is no hypocricy in sinning. It is the lie the left and the atheists use all the time - that a Christian who sins is a hypocrite.

A Christian is a hypocrite when he refuses to cease from his sin, when he fails to acknowledge his sin, or when he loses hope in his Savior and God's mercy. But sinning is no act of hypcricy on its own.
16 posted on 09/30/2002 9:43:41 AM PDT by Notwithstanding
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To: Notwithstanding
This isn't talking about Christians sinning. It is talking about there being NO difference between professing believers and the world.

You are correct that Christians do sin and will sin until they die. But that is no excuse to live like the unsaved around us. If our lives are no different than our unsaved neighbors than what possible reason would they have to investigate Christianity?
19 posted on 09/30/2002 9:48:40 AM PDT by ksen
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To: Notwithstanding
Well then according to what your saying, there are alot of back slidden Christians or baby Christians out there, that have not grown up in the Lord, I don't mean even grown up Christians will never sin, we all sin and will till the day we die, but if we grow up in the Lord, it will be less and less, not more and more, but as the article states, the blame could be because of weak leaderless preachers in the pulpits.

BigMack

20 posted on 09/30/2002 9:52:22 AM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
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