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To: terycarl
Doesn't OSAS mean that you can do either without penalty because all sins have already been forgiven???

Nope.

Sin has consequences. It's just that loss of salvation is not one of them.

But Catholics do not understand that God will now allow a child of His to continue in sin. Nor do they understand desire for holiness and sinlessness that motivates the believer to live a holy life nor the revulsion that a born again child of God feels at the thought of sinning and offending the One who redeemed him as such a great price.

The unregenerate mind cannot wrap around that the regenerate one does not want to sin.

When they accuse believers of that it goes to show the unregenerate state of the person who thinks that others think like them. It's called *projection*.

A regenerate believer does not need the threat of hellfire to avoid sin nor external force imposed on him to keep him from sinning.

1,700 posted on 01/09/2016 7:18:00 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
Sin has consequences. It's just that loss of salvation is not one of them.

Sin can cost people their lives. Presumably, in the book of Acts, Ananias and Sapphira were Christians, who didn't go out killing people, or other horrible acts. They simply did not tell the truth. Maybe that was on their bucket list, but it was the last thing they did.

1,756 posted on 01/09/2016 9:12:35 PM PST by Mark17 (Thank God I have Jesus, there's more wealth in my soul than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold)
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