I thought blasphemy of the Holy Spirit was the only thing unforgivable. This is definitely a difficult thing to deal with. I know Bundy accepted Christ before he was electrocuted and Son of Sam has become a Christian. The idea that Christ’s sacrifice covers the most heinous things for those who are truly repentant is a tenet of faith.
Christ is undeniably clear about the topic. Forgiveness requires genuine contrition. Continuance of the sin, furtherance of the sin, is not contrition.
That's why it's literally blasphemy to suggest that sexual deviants of any variety are forgiven. Without casting aside their wickedness they are irrevocably damned. They cast nothing aside, they wallow in it and specifically define themselves by it. Their so called marriages are blasphemous as well, a deliberate perversion of the union of man and woman designed and implemented by God.
Confession, penitence, contrition and forgiveness are strict in Catholicism for precisely that reason. For real Catholics anyway, not Bergoglio's cultists.
It's why, for example, Baptists are considered dire heretics among the faithful. Because they have perverted the act of penitence into something trite and trivial.
I thought blasphemy of the Holy Spirit was the only thing unforgivable. This is definitely a difficult thing to deal with. I know Bundy accepted Christ before he was electrocuted and Son of Sam has become a Christian. The idea that Christ’s sacrifice covers the most heinous things for those who are truly repentant is a tenet of faith.
Christ is undeniably clear about the topic. Forgiveness requires genuine contrition. Continuance of the sin, furtherance of the sin, is not contrition.
That's why it's literally blasphemy to suggest that sexual deviants of any variety are forgiven. Without casting aside their wickedness they are irrevocably damned. They cast nothing aside, they wallow in it and specifically define themselves by it. Their so called marriages are blasphemous as well, a deliberate perversion of the union of man and woman designed and implemented by God.
Confession, penitence, contrition and forgiveness are strict in Catholicism for precisely that reason. For real Catholics anyway, not Bergoglio's cultists.
It's why, for example, Baptists are considered dire heretics among the faithful. Because they have perverted the act of penitence into something trite and trivial.
Isn't true contrition also the acceptance of appropriate punishment, even if that means life in prison or death?
Yes.