A claim has been made that those who engage in an habitual sin are without faith. Do you agree or disagree that this claim is true?
Corollary to this is the claim that if one "repents" and then commits the same sin again, that one hasn't really repented. Is this what you believe?
Keep in mind what Paul has to say on the subject:
I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. (Romans 7:15)
It's good to have you back in the light again. LOL
You have ommitted the latest claim, that the "heinous" nature, by itself, means that the act was "conscious" (that is, completely an act of will, by design, etc.).
Like we didn't already establish that a Christian could have a crime of passion and kill someone and that would not be evidence of having no faith.
SD
Dave is sometimes more right than wrong.
I am currently suffering from a rotator cuff tear and I don't wish the same on Dave. Mine from a fall, his from patting himself on the back.
I am just catching up on the hundreds of posts made in the last few hours. I believe it is time for both SD and in_principio_erat_Verbum to move on to a new topic.
Psst in_..., be patient. Dave will give you plenty of ammunition.