What does EGW write about...
Adventistische Schriften über: "Relationship between repentance and divine registration"
Answer
Repentance and confession of sin are the essential conditions for a person's name to be recorded in the Book of Life and for pardon to be written against their deeds in the heavenly records. While initial repentance leads to the entry of pardon, the final blotting out of sins only occurs during the investigative judgment for those who remain faithful overcomers. Consequently, an unrepentant life or a failure to make past wrongs right prevents the removal of sin from the divine registry, whereas the blood of Christ covers the record of those who truly repent.
Divine Recording and the Blotting Out of Sins
»All who have truly repented of sin, and by faith claimed the blood of Christ as their atoning sacrifice, have had pardon entered against their names in the books of Heaven; as they have become partakers of the righteousness of Christ, and their characters are found to be in harmony with the law of God, their sins will be blotted out, and they themselves will be accounted worthy of eternal life.«
»On the other hand, when a soul repents, it matters not what the past record of sin may have been, his name is entered on the pages of the Book of Life; those sins are covered by the blood of Christ, and are finally blotted out.«
»Faithful repentance and confession of sin, and faith in the cleansing blood of Christ, will bring forgiveness, and pardon will be written against his name.«
»If the person repents and maintains a Christian life to the end, all these recorded sins are to be blotted out of this book. So Peter declared, “Repent ye, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.”«
»If in that day it shall appear that all our wicked deeds have not been fully repented of, our names will be blotted from the book of life, and our sins will stand against us.«
»Nothing but the blood of Jesus can avail to wash away the stains of sin and remove the wrinkles in the moral character, traits that must be seen and overcome before God can pardon the transgressions and blot them out of His book of records.«
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