Is it true that they can never get better?

[genesis12]

Every human, no matter what their sin, can be saved and healed and brought to repentance.

Thank God for this marvelous Truth. I was blind, but now I see. Psychiatry and repeat offenders have a miserable success rate in this group. That one who has been saved and healed obviously still has to deal with man's punishment, no matter what. Becoming a Christian in prison does not deliver one from the gallows. In the same vein, becoming a Christian for anyone does not deliver one from the heartache of a guilt-ridden past. How does one go to the families of those he has abused, even killed? How does one approach living survivors? I think, at my age, I would succumb to the flesh, taking the law into my own hands at such an encounter. How foolish! Sin is sin. There but for the Grace of God go I. It isn't a matter of turning the other cheek, either. God will do what He will do, and so will the State.

 

[Stinker2]

Originally posted by bapmom:
In another thread someone posted their opinion that sex offenders can never get better. My personal inclination (gut reaction) is that Id never trust that person again, in the least. And I guess I'd always think of them as a sex offender.

However, Biblically when a person is saved they are a new creature. With all other offenses when a person is saved we will leave their past life in the past. But can this particular offense be left in the past? I mean if the offender gets saved? Can he ever be allowed to move on? Do you think that he can ever be "rehabilitated"?

This post sums up the opinion that most people (even devout Christians) hold about someone who molests a child or children.

It is actually saying that the blood of Christ did in fact wash that offender's sins away......but the Holy Spirit did not 'renew that person's soul' (Titus 3:5))

That the person still has that same old nature that is dominated by the sin/s that were supposedly washed away by Christ's blood.


Has anyone attended A.A. for a period of time? Notice how they just learn to 'manage' their sinful nature that is dominated by alcohol. It is only when they get 'born-again' that they can ever leave A.A. for good and be truly free from the meetings and alcohol.

It is the same for the addiction of cigarettes, drugs, porn, sadism, etc.


If I found that a person that I was not familiar with, had been found guilty of a crime in his/her past, and I have seen evidence of the Holy Spirit working in them, I would know that I could trust them.

However, if the person just says that they are born-again, with no fruit of the Holy Spirit to show as evidence, then I could not trust them.

 

[bapmom]

You're right, Stinker.

Im involved in ministering in our church's addiction program and one of our main focal points is that there are strongholds in our life and Jesus is the only One who can set us truly free.

God didn't put any exceptions on that promise, but its alot of hard work.

I have never yet been directly confronted with this issue in someone I know around me, which Im thankful for.