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To: metmom
I am forgiven, period.

For sins you haven't repented?

I have repented of my sins

For the ones you haven't committed yet? Once repented covers any new sin you can imagine?

Nobody is capable of repenting of each and every individual sin

We can sure try. An examination of conscience is required and, at the very least, an attempt made. Thinking "I already repented for previous sins and once is enough," is hardly an honest try.

It’s a blanket legal pardon of ALL sin.

Sounds like Luther's "Sin boldly…" doctrine.

Once saved, always saved; once repented, always repented. No matter what you do.

You asked me once "who thinks that they are forgiven for sins they have not repented?" I think we know one in that group.

I can't imagine reading Christ's and the Apostle's words and coming up with this theology; but I'm sure you can.

844 posted on 11/04/2011 12:40:16 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr
So, what happens to Catholics if they miss repenting of something?

Hell? To bad for you?

Or is it the baptism of desire thing where if the intent is there, you're covered anyway even if you miss it?

Romans 8:10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

For the believer, our eternal life is a done deal, and yes, regardless of whether we sin after we turned to Christ or not and remembered to repent of it or not. We have been given a legal and positional pardon. Christ's righteousness is enough to cover all my sin, past, present, and future, regardless of whether someone else thinks I dealt with it the way they think I should have.

Does that give someone license to sin? Of course not and not even Paul taught that.

Romans 6 1What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

5For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7For one who has died has been set free from sin. 8Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

15What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For freedom Christ has set us free.

848 posted on 11/04/2011 1:32:06 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: D-fendr

I believe Luther called that one repentance “snow”. One guess what it covered. LOL


850 posted on 11/04/2011 2:33:25 PM PDT by Jvette
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