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What aspects of normal human behavior have people mistaken as the work of the flesh?

Trivializing Sin The reason why people trivialize the definition or standard of sin is, ironically, to justify sinning. The wrong and twisted standard of transgression to God is deliberately created ...
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What if the devil was to seek redemption or forgiveness from God, what will happen then? Will God forgive him and make him an angel again?

Am going to walk you through the various types of sins. There is forgivable sin and unforgivable sin. A sample sin that cannot be forgiven someone is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit Mathew 12:30-32 ...
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What aspects of normal human behavior have people mistaken as the work of the flesh?

"Normal human behavior" is described in the Bible as "sinful behavior". Even when it does not appear that any action or speech is sinful, or 'weak', the Bible states that even our ...
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What are illustrative examples of how the Sabbath can be broken according to Sabbatarian Christians?

My first experience of of sabbath keeping is similar (in time and place) to that of @Anne . At the age of about five I was staying in a neighbour's house as my parents were away and sitting on the bed ...
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What are illustrative examples of how the Sabbath can be broken according to Sabbatarian Christians?

From personal experience, my first realization of what many Sabatarians in the far north of Scotland view as 'breaking' the Sabbath hit me when my husband and I finally arrived at a butt-an'-ben ...
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What are illustrative examples of how the Sabbath can be broken according to Sabbatarian Christians?

There are different varieties of Sabbatarians that may answer the question differently. I serve in the PCA, a denomination that adheres to the Westminster Standards (Westminster Confession of Faith, ...
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St. Thomas Aquinas on the Worthy Reception of Holy Communion and the Forgiveness of Venial Sins?

Thomas Aquinas claims that the reception of the Holy Eucharist forgives venial sins: Summa Theologica III q. 79 a. 4 "Whether venial sins are forgiven through this sacrament?" His statement ...
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What is the difference between sinning due to rebellion vs. sinning due to weakness?

Theology of sin based on Biblical hints A useful way for me to address how humans sin (including myself) is to organize my thinking in this way: FIRST, study the various ways that the Bible alludes ...
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Are there any denominations that consider it sinful to own guns for any reason, regardless of laws?

Asking if owning guns for any reason is considered sinful by any Christian denomination misses the point. Way back in the distant past men killed with swords and metal farming implements. Historians ...
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