Thus Jesus» teaching is that an heir or child of God who is alive in Christ can indeed experience spiritual death if he / she sows to a lifestyle
of unrepentant sin.
Not exact matches
since this woman entered a Catholic Church to be a part
of their service
of worship, she shouldn't be surprised that they follow the doctrine they believe in — namely, that someone openly
unrepentant of what the Catholic Church teaches is
sin should not partake
of communion.
Never mind, it's foundation covers up my
unrepentant sin and suffering
of those who dared to get in my way.
No Christian practices a lifestyle
of continuing,
unrepentant sin.
There will be millions
of surprised people one day who believe they're going to be in adultery, pornography or in
unrepentant sin and headed to heaven.
Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense
of it all with a wave
of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in
sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory
of an angry God (they called her a «vessel
of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one
of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all
of His rage at our
sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape
of a child is part
of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented
unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense
of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my
sin nature I can not trust it.
If someone who has salvation commits a
sin that leads to death, such as one
of the «Seven Deadly
Sins», and is
unrepentant at the time
of death, they can not enter into the Kingdom
of God and have effectively lost their salvation.
What about professed Christians who live in
unrepentant sin, i.e., they have no desire to repent
of their
sins?
Rejecting God and
sinning against the Spirit is the unpardonable
sin, the one for which there is no forgiveness - that is the constant,
unrepentant, deliberate unacceptance
of the Lord.
But discipline given in the right way expresses the deepest kind
of love, love that refuses to do nothing to rescue a brother from
unrepentant sin and its consequences.
This would be a very small number
of people indeed — far from the sum total
of all non-Christians and all
unrepentant (even
of unconscious, unrecognized
sins) sinners.
Moses taught that the
sins of the fathers will be visited on the children to the third and fourth generations
of the
unrepentant (Exod.
For human beings, having one's conscience seared is a result
of continual,
unrepentant sinning.
Oh, and I definitely am not talking about «shunning» anybody, but for a known
unrepentant sinner to exhibit said
sin in the presence
of believers and especially children might be cause for shunning, at least in that moment.
Christians: If you are NOT consistenly following the teachings and NOT going by faith, and are
unrepentant about it... then yes, you are being a hypocrite and in a state
of sin!
As Tory activists gathered in Bournemouth for what Iain Duncan Smith regards as his make - or - break conference as leader, his newly appointed chairwoman, Theresa May, set the tone with a remarkable de nunciation
of the party's past
sins - still «
unrepentant, just plain unattractive».
Granted seven days to «put his house in order», Lavelle embarks on a stumbling Stations
of the Cross through an
unrepentant parish only too happy to parade their
sins before him, and trade every attempted benediction for yet another barb.