Modern people have this really naive view of Christ’s Redemption of...
Isaac Young@HariSel57511397
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Dec 11, 2024
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Modern people have this really naive view of Christ’s Redemption of Mankind. They think it saves you from all earthly consequences, that as soon as you say the magic words, you instantly fix everything you broke in your life. /1
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But that’s not how any of this works. You break something when you sin, and just because you “repent”, that doesn’t mean you’ll get it back. A man can’t undo an adultery anymore than a woman can’t reclaim her virginity. Thinking otherwise is pure cope, and frankly, immoral. /2
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None of the Saints got an out of jail card with their redemption. They had to live with the consequences of their sins for the rest of their lives. You are not lost in the sense you can still attain heaven. But if you kill someone, you can’t take that back. /3
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This magic view of Christ’s Redemption is quite frankly heretical and disgusting. It views the Redemption much in the same sense as “Christ died for our sins. So why not sin and enjoy it?” It pretends that there are no real consequences, and it devalues the cruxifixction. /4
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And while OP’s “lost forever” comment can be technically nitpicked, it functionally understands the severity of the sin, and so it’s 100x times more true than the magic Jesus perspective.
This woman is lost. On a physical, spiritual, and mental level. /5
This woman is lost. On a physical, spiritual, and mental level. /5
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And regardless, the deeper the sin, the harder it is to repent. You can’t just assume that when someone absolutely trainwrecks their own life that they’ll magically turn to Christ. More often than not, they double-down because they can’t bear the truth. /6
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There are real stakes in this life. Real things to be won or lost, gained or broken. Every historical Christian understood this. Life is not a whiteboard where Jesus erases everything you don’t like. And whenever you ponder the consequence of sin, recall the Passion. /7
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If for nothing else, this was the consequences of your sins. Jesus is not a God who walks away from consequence.
