Joe that is a good point, but you want to quench the holy spirit
in habitual sin so that grace may abound?
Can you continue to live
in habitual sin and be saved?
austin: «As wrong as Luther was, producing a hatred for Christ rejecting Jews is no different than producing a hatred for people who engage
in a habitual sin.»
As wrong as Luther was, producing a hatred for Christ rejecting Jews is no different than producing a hatred for people who engage
in a habitual sin.
Not exact matches
Finnis and Grisez charge that, according to the logic of Amoris Laetitia, some of the faithful are too weak to keep God's commandments, and can live
in grace while committing ongoing and
habitual sins «
in grave matter.»
They teach that if you have patterns of
habitual sin in your life, you have good reason to question whether or not you actually have eternal life.
Those believers who are engaged
in willful
habitual sin run the risk of becoming children of the devil instead of children of God, thus severing their relationship with God and «eternal» life itself.
Ask yourself when you fall back into
habitual sin the most, and don't be surprised to find it is
in moments of unmanaged free time.
And by disbelief I do not mean some sort of brave rejection of the doctrine, some defiant demand flung at heaven for possession of one's own soul; I mean merely the impotence of an imagination that finds the very notion of
sin incomprehensible, the conscience of a man who is sure that, whatever
sin might be, it surely lies lightly upon a soul as decent as his own, and can be brushed off with a single casual stroke of a primly gloved hand; I mean an
habitual insensibility to the illuminations and chastisements of beauty, a condition of being wholly at home
in a world from which mystery and
sin and glory have all been banished, and
in which spiritual wretchedness has become material contentment.
We know that Christ died for us while we were yet sinners, yet we are too often unwilling to open up our lives to those who are caught
in patterns of
habitual sin.