if no sin occurs, nothing to repent
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Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 weeks agoYes. Same way God isn’t stopping you from sinning because doing so wouldn’t let you repent
noxypaws@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
True, but all have sinned
noxypaws@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
if all have sinned in a situation where no sin occurs, then you can’t say “true”
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
What do you mean situation where no sin occurs?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
But god can force Pharaoh to sin by hardening his heart to Moses’s pleas arbitrarily lengthening the Israelites’ suffering and robbing a human of his free will in the process.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I don’t think the Israelites are sitting in heaven after several thousand years upset over the few extra weeks they spent in captivity. That’s besides the point, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened by God removing the Holy Spirit, which is needed for repentance. It’s still Pharaoh’s free will, after he ignored spiritual conviction
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
So there’s a certain amount of spiritual conviction god could give genociders to convince them to stop while it still being considered free will but refuses?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
We’re the one that refuses it. Pharaoh was clearly refusing it, and blasphemed the Holy Spirit