Posted by SLS on May 12, 2008, at 20:44:26
In reply to Sin, posted by Forerunner on May 12, 2008, at 19:49:19
> We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others and have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of sin. The guilt is not washed out by time but by repentence and the blood of Jesus Christ.
Can you explain to me why one is saved through an act of Jesus 2100 years ago, but must also repent before the power of Jesus can be actualized? And what of those people of the world who have never heard of this man and the need to repent? Are they to be sentenced to perdition for not knowing that there was ever declared to have been a christ?
- Scott
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