OH I'VE JUST FOUND THE VERSE THAT SUMMARISES MY "'EVERLASTING' FORGIVENESS" POST AND IVAN'S "FORGIVENESS: ONCE AND NEVER AGAIN?" POST!

By now I hope we all agree that God can harden our hearts. The question now is, will God still forgive if you repent after your heart has been hardened?

Yes, but I can safely say, you won't repent if your heart is hardened. If you've witnessed the goodness of God so much and yet strayed from God for ages, you'll just find it too tough to repent. You'll keep telling yourself to repent, you repent verbally and ol', but in your heart you still won't feel thAt twist, if you knowaamean.

-erm, although the paragraphs above are only my opinions, I think they are quite true because they kinda surfaced in my brain while I was doing quiet time. and before I did quiet time, I asked God to reveal something to me, and it's really late at night now, 2:45am to be exact, haha, but I'm sure God wants me to write these things here-

Anyway, here comes the verse about when God will harden a heart:

"For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened."
-Romans 1:21

Read the verse above 20 times..till it sinks in man..


Their thinking became futile
Their foolish hearts were darkened.



Here are some other verses which are related..read if you're not in a hurry...
"They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator.. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts."
-Romans 1:25,26

Of course, the "lusts" in v26 can be metaphorical - simply the lust for worldly nature.

"Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind.."
"They became filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity." ||let me pause here to say that the word up there is filled. Paul is saying that the hearts of the hardened are simply filled with wickedness..you still can have the conscience, and the fear of the law, to not physically carry out these wicked acts|| "They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless."
-Romans 1:28, 29, 30, 31

Christianity is not about "hear only the good stuff". After the amazing grace comes the serious walk with God.

-Ryan- (signing off for this post, and the last one as well)