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<blockquote data-quote="HTacianas" data-source="post: 77559017" data-attributes="member: 411268"><p>To answer your question, no. To give a black and white example, let's say someone is a mafia hitman. He's gone around killing people. He decides to repent of his sins and accept Christ. That means he ceases killing people and doesn't do it again. The new testament addresses him if he returns to his old ways and starts killing again:</p><p></p><p>2Pe 2:20 For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.</p><p></p><p>2Pe 2:21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.</p><p></p><p>Notice that after they have repented, and then gone back to their old ways, they are worse off than when they began. So ceasing from intentional sin is a requirement, but we all sin unintentionally. That is why we have confession and reconciliation. It is a lifetime of repentance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HTacianas, post: 77559017, member: 411268"] To answer your question, no. To give a black and white example, let's say someone is a mafia hitman. He's gone around killing people. He decides to repent of his sins and accept Christ. That means he ceases killing people and doesn't do it again. The new testament addresses him if he returns to his old ways and starts killing again: 2Pe 2:20 For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. 2Pe 2:21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. Notice that after they have repented, and then gone back to their old ways, they are worse off than when they began. So ceasing from intentional sin is a requirement, but we all sin unintentionally. That is why we have confession and reconciliation. It is a lifetime of repentance. [/QUOTE]
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