Sorry is not a magic formula which wipes the slate clean in every sense, and neither is God’s grace. There is a difference between, on the one hand, forgiveness and restoration to fellowship, and, on the other, going back to the way things were. Some actions so fundamentally change relationships, reputations, and even personalities that there is no going back. We lie to our people if we tell them otherwise.
Carl Trueman, “Why I Believe in the One Great Heresy”
The idea that past sin, no matter how bad, how destructive, how long it lasted, should be forgiven immediately and have no lasting consequences is what Westminster Seminary Church Historian Carl Trueman, a Brit, writes about in this excellent article. Read it if you dare.
by Jeffrey Mindler, Research Assistant “Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to...
When defending the faith against unbelievers, we want to strike at the heart of the unbelieving system of thought. We want to identify the main source of...
by Jeff Mindler, Research Assistant at Apologetics for the Church “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built...
