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One more sin

CaseyB

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Let's say I am in the desert with no help for thousands of miles and nobody knows I am there. I am minutes or hours away from death from dehydration or starvation or both. Is it possible to choose to sin just one more time with the plan to repent or is planning to repent contradictory to actually being able to repent? I mean you know you will regret doing it afterwards but you want to do it anyways because it feels good in the moment. Does knowing that you will die soon make repenting less meaningful? Is a single day enough time to actually truly feel repentance?

Another scenario, you set in motion a series of events that leads to what would be considered a sin by you knowing full well that before the conclusion of said events, you will regret doing it and ask for forgiveness. Where does the sin end? Does it end with the loss of intent or does it end with the conclusion of the series of events? What if you die before the conclusion of the events but after you have asked for forgiveness and repent?
 

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It depends on the person. If you commit a sin knowing you will just repent later on then I do not believe there would be enough time to truly feel remorse for your actions. For most people it takes some time before they look back and can say their actions were stupid but if you only have a couple hours left then I don't believe this feeling would have time to develop. This is just based upon my own view and I can't say that this would hold true for every person.
 
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Sinning with the plan to repent afterward misses the point of repentance. Even still, there is forgiveness if we confess our sins; in this case both the sin act itself and the premeditated decision to sin to repent after are sins--and they are freely forgiven us.

-CryptoLutheran
 
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