Not exact matches
3:12 - 13) makes one
abandon their
faith without even knowing they have done that - thinking they are still saved while sinning unrepentantly — hence they are never again able to come to repentance.
Huebert, We can agree that there are good feelings involved and having
faith does tend to allow you to surrender self, but you won't be able to
abandon self
without faith.
I will use «secular humanism» as a label for the post-Enlightenment, nontheistic
faith of the large and growing number of Westerners who have
abandoned Judaism or Christianity
without adopting another species of organized religion.
ISTM that the Church has
abandoned its mission to the world and set up an ecclesiastic subculture of priests and levites, where it is all about serving in the temple / church while the world is left to its own fate
without the leavening / seasoning of
faith.
But their
faith in God can not be subordinated to something else
without abandoning the heritage.