According to the Bible can you be a true Born Again Christian and be a practicing thief?

Question

Not a repented, changed man, who was formerly a thief. Can you be a True Christian and be a practicing thief?

Answer 1

thief or christian make a choice you can't be both.

Answer 2

In 1-3Jn it is written that it is impossible for a child of God to abide in sin (make it a comfortable habit) because of the Holy Seed within. So? A real Christian can try to be a thief, but the Holy Spirit convicts us through our spiritman. So, discomfort is the conscequence until we confess our sins, & He (Jesus) is faithful & just to forgive us our sins & cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

We are to wash in the Word of God, as the Holy Spirit washes us in the Word, the Truth does set us free from sinful bondages. Sinful bondages is rooted in believing something wrong or a lie somewhere.

So? Practicing thief is abiding in sin. If a born again Christian tried to abide in this sin in rebellion to God, then could just go home early. God does discipline His Children. And sometimes the discipline is harsh.

Also it is written in bible scripture that when a person is born again, they are a brand new man. The old man is dead, washed in His redeeming blood, the new man in Christ alive forevermore. See? The old man dies. So? The born again Christian may have used to be a thief. But has been cleaned & is not a thief anymore.

Answer 3

I don't know. I suppose people who "can't help themselves" might be continue to be a thief once they are born again, but I doubt that is a significant percentage. I'd say probably most people change their ways once they believe in Jesus and once they are truly born again, but I can't testify that everyone does. I really did, not that I was a thief, but of course, we are still subject to the possibility of sin.

Answer 4

Its basically called
Get as many people in the church as possible, frighten them on tales of hell and tourment and then ask for collections.

Make thousands and thousands in weddings and keep the golf player, i mean priest in a huge house.

There is no such thing as god. No such thing as Jesus.
It was merely history that was made into a tale so we would remember it. For example "Dreamland" or someword like that ment by aborigional Australians, where songs and dances remind them of where they come from. Remind them what to eat, how to gather.
We had stories and Nursery Rhymes and then the Bible took over.
Look at how many versions of christianity there are.
Look how many religions there are! I mean FFS there is even a JEDI religion now!!
And im sure in around 120 years there will be people willing to die for it!
Because humans are gullable, and people are Stupid.
One day religion will bring about the so called appocolypse! But not as it depicts. Basically the world will end because of all the stupid people so engrosed in their beliefs they forget the reason they are alive and just strive to kill and plunder all those religions that aren't their own!
Look at the crusades! Time and time again, christians v muslims. muslims v the world, christians v the world.
People despised Hitler, He had ideas that even the bible teaches. Why then not hate the Bible?
The bible will change again soon, and there will strangely be a female follower of christ, and god will say something to Mossesia (moses's twin sister) and She will strike a rock with a stick and make chocolate or something. Trust me the bible will have changed again in a few years.
And the quoran changes with each school of teaching!
ITS ALL LIES

Answer 5

You must understand that Christ was not of God, nor did he have a soul. Christ had and was a type of ghost that simply chose repeatedly to reach for the highest level of meditation. He didn't even reach the highest level. In fact, the highest level isn't even possible on/with a planet/culture with no reincarnation selection. His level was probably about 30% I'd say. Higher civilizations were/are so contagious w/ their power that they literally had to construct a type of highly technologically advanced shield around Earth to ensure that any ghosts that tried to operate human bodies were having severe limits at doing so. Part of the reincarnation barrier is that there's at most a 33% limit for the level of any being that perceives operating from within it. A person with a karma of 115 will come and when they die the entire film that blocks all of the other civilizations from helping shall dissolve as that person returns to God as the 25th/46 series of unique events. God will be 25/46 % complete at the time of his/her death- thus re-establishing for the 25th time the exact center of the universe, where the idea of a center is thus the circumstance that is the randomness existential, given that the means of which to define the existence of a black hole is always flawed and temporally just the farthest distance rather than the closest distance to all that could exist.

Now to answer your question about someone who is a soul rather than a ghost. A soul goes through 115 deaths before it reaches God. The 10 commandments are descriptions of the signs of the tendencies of the soul itself, but not exactly actual signs of someone who is at their 115th round. The significance of following them is really just luck. Higher civilizations gave us them in order to help us become lucky in our lives. Reading them 12x a day and obsessing over them though; I mean you'll just find that people who have souls aren't interested in those rules because really to comprehend them is just to be peaceful-- and peace is no commandment of course. Moses was on his 114th incarnation I should tell you.. and it's now 6 thousand years later about...

Answer 6

I think so, but I think God will chasten him severely and may even take him home early unless the thief truly repents, confesses his sin to God, asks His forgiveness and makes restitution to those he stole from each time. The thing is, this is not likely. Because the more we sin, the more hardened we become in our conscience and the more likely to justify it in our own minds.

Answer 7

Yes and no, It depends what you consider a thief.
as your first answer by kalebow, is of a truth these Christians do not call this robbery, killing nor stealing, yet they are...

Take Jacob in he O.T. they call him a thief and yet by God He was not.

In order to steal for evil from someone.. is if it has any value to the owner..

Take Jacob and Esau..

Jacob secretly took Esau's birthright and blessing.

Jacob did not want the earthly possessions of his father Isaac... Jacob was to the spiritual promise of God, one possession he would never see..

That is why Esau did not kill Jacob when he returned, because Jacob did not want the earthly.
Esau did not care about the blessing, after all that was 400 yrs. into the future..

That is why Esau took with him 400 men... If Jacob was to want his birthright, then Esau would have killed every human, animal, and destroy all the belongings of Jacobs' tribe..

It was not the intent of Jacob to hurt his brother, God gave him his chance to take his birthright from Esau..

God sent an army to Jacob... But the evil thought never entered into him..

Ge 32:1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

Ge 32:2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

You cannot steal from those who do not want it..

In Iraq... We are taking from them that is not ours to take... Their way of life and religion...

If bush was sincere to save the people... he would have them come here, like all the other multi--millions do..

No, bush wants,,, their mind, soul, body, money, oil and spirit... Down with bush's 7th king... return Lord of Lord's.. Amen

Answer 8

Absolutey.... NOT...!

But IF... he is Really.. A Christian.. AND CONTINUES IN SIN.... then.... Watch THIS...

(Hebrews 12:5) And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons, "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him;

(Heb 12:6) for whom the Lord loves He chastens, and He scourges every son whom He receives."

(Heb 12:7) If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons, for what son is he whom the father does not chasten?

(Heb 12:8) = = = But if you are without chastisement, = = of which all are partakers, = = = then you are BASTARDS = = and Not Sons.

Thanks, RR

Answer 9

Yes, you can be born again and be a thief. God wants you to change but he will not make you. When you decide to change your ways God will be there to help you.

Answer 10

NO. But God loves you even you are a practising thief. (Commiting sin) A true christian, believes that sin hurts you and others and Jesus, and that if you believe you cant go on hurting yourself and others and jesus.