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The practicing of sin is also unforgivable. What I mean is if you know it is a sin and you CHOSE to practice it , not a slip here and there but a conscious decision to do the sin over and over.
One can be forgiven for sinning, even repeating the same sin, as long as you are not practicing the sin.
Of course one can also chose to stop practicing the sin and ask for forgiveness. Assuming one does not wait to long or is insincere in the request for forgiveness.
your speaking of this, In Romans 1:28, we read of those who “God gave …over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.” Here, the meaning is not only of rejection but abandonment. These people had gone so far in sin, “they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,” and so God gave them what they wanted. They did not want God, righteousness, holiness, cleanness, or purity, so God “gave them over.” These people are reprobate because of their hatred toward God.
I have a question. How do you know that these people that were "gave over" hated God??
If it is because they disobeyed Gods commandments, that is why they hate God?
Is it because they did not know god or doubt the existance of god is because they hate god?
Or where there some action such as admitting they hate god is why they are considered to hate God?
Understand--A child could do all three things above to a parent, but deep down they may not hate the parent. So one need to ask, is the Bible correct and truthful when it makes such sweeping generalizations??
I claim that the theologians that wrote such passages did not know everything and was winging it as they wrote it.
Could an atheist have a (reprobate mind), seeing how they knew god, but turned away from god forever. Is it a sin to tell your child there is no god? The people Paul is discussing in Romans chapter 1 are godless and wicked men who suppress the truth by their wickedness (Romans 1:18). Paul claims that
"they knew God, [however] they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles" (verses 21-23).
Paul is railing against some vile people who crept into the early church and began to teach other things, other doctrines, other gospels, and were successful at leading many astray. It was a problem right from the start, and it has continued to be a problem down to this very day! Perhaps as we continue reading what Paul said in Romans chapter 1, we might recognize some people or organizations in the news today!
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