Survey: Alarming rate of Christian men look at porn, commit adultery (preach, pastor)
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This. A truly born again believer can certainly sin, BUT they can't sin comfortably. My pastor liked to describe it as God taking you out to the wood shed. Your heart will be grieved and shamed for failing God. You'll feel like crap.
Some people do not feel remorse over anything, and it's probably a good idea to stay away from such people. It is true that believers are more aware of it when they feel like they let God down. It brings them to repentance. It is normal.
Some people do not feel remorse over anything, and it's probably a good idea to stay away from such people. It is true that believers are more aware of it when they feel like they let God down. It brings them to repentance. It is normal.
It is true that some people feel no remorse for their actions. They are often diagnosed as sociopaths, or psychopaths.
I have known three such in my life. Two were professed born-again Christians. One was a nominal Catholic.
Religion is no protection for the insane. In fact, it has oft proven to be a refuge.
A guilty conscience weighs upon believers and non, alike.
They just describe it, and ascribe it, differently.
If there's a god who sees and cares about such things, I have a hunch it don't make no nevermind whether the sorrow comes from an atheist or a Lutheran or Muslim or a pagan.
Your pastor teaches that God takes people out back of the woodshed for a spiritual whoopin'?
His pastor is correct.
Heb. 12
5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?
“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
nor be weary when reproved by him.
6 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives.”
7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. 11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields othe peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
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Your pastor teaches that God takes people out back of the woodshed for a spiritual whoopin'?
