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Paul replies that believers should "certainly not (μὴ γένοιτο, mē genoito) continue in sin, that grace may abound" (Romans 6:2). [14]The phrase μη γενοιτο is regularly used by Paul; it is used 10 times in this epistle, as well as in his other writings. [15]
Protestants differ on the question of whether it is possible for humans to forfeit justification. But if they do, it is by ceasing to have faith in God, not by any individual sin. Roman Catholics hold that righteousness comes to be present in humans, and that the continuing status of acceptance is based on this.
In Christian hamartiology, eternal sin, the unforgivable sin, unpardonable sin, or ultimate sin is the sin which will not be forgiven by God.One eternal or unforgivable sin (blasphemy against the Holy Spirit), also known as the sin unto death, is specified in several passages of the Synoptic Gospels, including Mark 3:28–29, [1] Matthew 12:31–32, [2] and Luke 12:10, [3] as well as other New ...
This improvement is not completed in this life: Christians are always "saint and sinner at the same time" (simul iustus et peccator) [73] —saints because they are holy in God's eyes, for Christ's sake, and do works that please him; sinners because they continue to sin until death.
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that sin is inherited, like a disease, and has been passed on from generation to generation of humans, beginning with Adam and Eve, whom Witnesses believe are real historical characters. [69] They believe that it began with the Devil, and then with humans wanting to decide for themselves what was good and bad. They ...
Christian mortalism is the doctrine that all men and women, including Christians, must die, and do not continue and are not conscious after death. Therefore, annihilationism includes the doctrine that "the wicked" are also destroyed rather than tormented forever in traditional "Hell" or the lake of fire.
This improvement is not completed in this life: Christians are always "saint and sinner at the same time" (simul iustus et peccator) [72] —saints because they are holy in God's eyes, for Christ's sake, and do works that please him; sinners because they continue to sin until death.
According to Catholicism, a venial sin is a lesser sin that does not result in a complete separation from God and eternal damnation in Hell as an unrepented mortal sin would. [1] [2] [3] A venial sin consists in acting as one should not, without the actual incompatibility with the state of grace that a mortal sin implies; they do not break one's friendship with God, but injure it.