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Old 04-19-2014, 03:20 AM
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Re: Altering the need for the altar...

Being forgiven and cleansed by the blood of Jesus is not the same as God granting a person repentance.

Forgiveness occurs because of the mercy of God to not hold a sin over someone's head in judgment.

Repentance occurs when God transforms a person through the renewing of their mind.

God may forgive any number of people countless times. Some only seek this, never desiring to change, hence the verse I shared from Malachi 2.

God would prefer that people go further, to let His Spirit renovate their brain, so that they can move forward, with a forgiven soul, into more sinless life of righteousness.
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