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by nicoburns 952 days ago
> You can't pick and choose living right, either you are or you aren't. If you only sometimes rob the bus station you aren't living right.

I don't really believe that. I think it's more of a continuum. And that everybody does both good and evil deeds.

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Catholics go to confession for this exact reason - people still mess up both accidentally and on purpose, and when they do they need a path back to God. This is the concept of repenting, where you just turn around and walk away from your sin and back to God, like the Prodigal Son.

Living right is acknowledging the mistakes and trying to never do that same thing again. Repeatedly robbing a bus station is quite a far cry from trying not to do evil on purpose.