[GunRunner]

If a child molester merely parrots a confession he won’t have salvation. But if he truly repents, accepts God’s forgiveness and comes to know Jesus he’s meeting God’s standards, not those of man.

Right, in my hypothetical example the priest is truly repentant for his crimes. But the child is also truly genuine in his rejection of God and Jesus because of his experience, so he goes to Hell.

[reasonisfaith]

I can’t conceive of rejection of God as anything but a wrongful act of the highest severity.