(February 19, 2015 at 2:37 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote:(February 18, 2015 at 8:10 pm)Lek Wrote: [...] No one would come to him and say "I believe you are my savior and I wish to follow you, but I'm really not sorry for my sins and I plan to continue in them."
Well, what if I don't say it? What I just keep repenting, and sinning, and repenting in a vicious cycle of selfishness and self-deprecation? You know - like Christians do...
Which is the whole point of repentance. It's so weird that christians pretend like sinning is this accidental thing that they don't really want to do, or that they have a choice not to do, but the bible makes it clear that you don't have that choice: sin is inherent in human nature, our natural capacity is to sin, it's inescapable. The salvation deal is literally based around this concept; you can't help but sin, you need the sacrifice of Christ to check in to heaven.
But guys like Lek are all like, oh, once you honestly repent... no more sin! But that's not actually the way it works, even within the scripture.
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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