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Author Topic: Does it become more difficult to re-establish grace with God?  (Read 688 times)

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Offline InfiniteFaith

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  • If we fall into mortal sin over and over again, does God begin to lose patience with us? Is it harder to re-establish the same relationship with Him if we keep committing the same mortal sin(s) over again? What about if we commit a sin that has seriously offended God? Would it be more difficult to re-obtain Grace after committing one of these sins? I know I have read some comments on here before where people believe that it is. I just want to see why they think that. I do know that there is no sin that cannot be forgiven. It just makes me wonder if any particular sin could leave us "in the dark" more so, even after going to confession for it.


    Offline Judas Machabeus

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    Does it become more difficult to re-establish grace with God?
    « Reply #1 on: July 23, 2014, 04:33:59 AM »
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  • I think it depends on the type of sin and the reasons for it.

    If one commits certain sins very deliberately and with malice, repeatedly, one can become reprobate.  That is the word you want to Google.  Reprobation entails the withdrawal of grace -- God leaves us to ourselves.  That is indeed a frightening condition.

    However, sins of weakness, even committed repeatedly, are often used by God to bring a person to humility and make him more open to grace.  Recall what St. Paul wrote about the thorn in the flesh.  M. Eugene Boylan explains this very well in his book This Tremendous Lover.

    It is said that one becomes holy either through great purity or great humility.  I know that for me, it will be the latter, or nothing.

    Don't despair.  Remember what St. Alphonsus Liguori wrote.  No one who prays will be lost.

    Take a moment to read the quote from Columba Marmion in my signature.  That's the key to your situation.


    Offline shin

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    Does it become more difficult to re-establish grace with God?
    « Reply #2 on: July 23, 2014, 07:07:50 AM »
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  • Yes there's a difference between sins of malice and sins of weakness.

    Sincerely,

    Shin

    'Flores apparuerunt in terra nostra. . . Fulcite me floribus.' (The flowers appear on the earth. . . stay me up with flowers. Sg 2:12,5)'-

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    Does it become more difficult to re-establish grace with God?
    « Reply #3 on: July 23, 2014, 07:11:29 AM »
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  • Quote from: shin
    Yes there's a difference between sins of malice and sins of weakness.



    So if you repent for a sin of malice then can you get back to where you were (with God) like before you committed the sin?