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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
1 Corinthians 5:12-13 is talking about God judging and condemning perverts who are without the church, the apostle wasn't saying that perverts were saved because they weren't in the church. It isn't even about salvation, the apostle's main point was that the saints would have to interact with all the scum outside their fellowship, one issue as in commerce. They were still to be light and salt as they interacted with the world. But incestuous relationships were not allowed to continue within the church family. Paul's logic is concerning being in FELLOWSHIP, not salvation. His letter tells them to not be in communion with perverts as brothers and sisters, but he goes on to say not those who are in the world, because then the saint would have to physically leave the world.
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So iow if God Himself came down and told you to stop, you would have a rationalization for why continuing in your sin would be acceptable.
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