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Originally Posted by Pianoman
What I'm saying is that if you plan to repent at a certain time and date openly before men, you have already repented in your heart.
You are trying to change my words to say that one is planning to repent in their heart to God in the future. In this situation, one could be lost if they plan to repent tomorrow for a wild time they are having tonight! In this case, they have not repented in their heart or else they would not do what they are planning to do!
Also keep in mind that publicly repenting is not necessarily repenting. I've seen this happen many times where someone went back to the way they were doing things the very next day!
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I'm thinking that maybe you're forgetting the
original scenario in question, as posted by 1Corinth...
" There's an atheist, the son of a Pentecostal preacher traveling via airplane and finally accepts the message of Jesus Christ. The atheist states he'll repent of his sins after landing, while in the presence of his father, and the airplane then explodes in mid-air."
He accepted the message of truth, and
stated he would repent of his sins later, but died before ever doing so. (
But it did not say he repented in his heart, and intended to make public confession of it later in his father's presence.) In this scenario, he intended to repent of his sins, but
never did.
And that makes all the difference.
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