Question about New Testament (with OT)

[bluesqueak]

> I'm sinner and I'm sorry ...ummm... if I promise to be sorry again
> tomorrow, do you think I could do it again tonight?
> 
> bboy_mn

Alas, no. A thing cannot be both itself and not itself at the same 
time. You can't repent a sin in advance, since if you are willing to 
do the sin, you are not actually a truly repentant person. If you 
were a truly repentant person, you'd decide not to do the sin at all 
[grin].

You can of course, be very repentant in the morning (copious amounts 
of alcohol the night before are a great help to repentance), but 
true repentance requires genuine intention not to do the sin again.

You might fail, but you are at least supposed to try ;-)

It's that fine print, you know. Gets you every time...

Pip!Squeak

[If you think you can repent a sin in advance, try reading Dante's 
Inferno, Canto 27, where Guido da Montefeltro tells the story of how 
he made that mistake and where it got him * ;-) ]

[*Clue: you're reading Dante's story about a vision of Hell ]