I wrote this to the moderators of CARM (they are not as bad as some other message board moderators so I felt that they might even listen and heed these words) in a thread in the other Topics section, and wanted its words to be preserved here for the sake of a testimony. I want to make it clear that I don't have any beef with the moderators of this message board; because I have had no problems with them whatsoever; and I am very thankful for their kind and godly treatment of me as a minister here.
Does Revelation 22:19 teach that their part is taken out of the holy city and the book of life?
Are they taking away from the word of God?
I will not answer this question myself lest my answer be deleted.
But I think that my opinion on the matter should be quite clear: that I believe that when messages contain the word of God, for someone to delete them is to commit a grievous sin in the sight of the Lord.
Is there cleansing and forgiveness for such a sin?
Perhaps only if the thing that was deleted can be restored and is restored by the one who deleted it.
If it cannot be restored, then there is definite condemnation there in my pov; but if the person humbles himself/ herself in the sight of the Lord, tearing his/ her heart and not his/her garments; if they come to Him with a contrite heart and turn their laughter into mourning and their joy into heaviness: if they cleanse their hands and purify their hearts, and repent: perhaps the Lord will hear from heaven and forgive them of their iniquity.
There was a king in Jeremiah's day who hardened his heart and burned in the fire the prophecy that Jeremiah wrote. God told Jeremiah to rewrite the prophecy in another scroll; and many things were added over and above the original prophecy. But the king who hardened his heart and did this was judged severely by the Lord God. He never saw the second scroll; but you can be sure that it condemned him.
"Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your heart, as in the provocation."
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