Rape does fall into the category were talking about... that category being evil. So yeah it does fall into it. If your ok with allowing evil a little... then your ok with allowing a little rape.
Another reason why I use rape, aside from it being absolutely relavent, is because that's how God see's evil, that's how bad evil is.... how bad a lie is, or stealing 1 penny.
Ok next thing, repentance, woah man you gotta read James. Yeah your right God can forgive anything because that's how great and mysterious his love is, true love.
Now when you ask for forgiveness... you really onlyonly
need to ask once. Not over and over again, because the sacrfice of Jesus Christ covers all sin, including future sins but sure I don't see why not out of affection say sorry when you mess up, because Christians are not perfect and are being cleaned up by God still.
Another thing is Faith without works is dead faith. Here's a verse that'll help you understand...
17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Basically... in english... hey do you believe in God and his teachings? God literally BEING love, BEING truth, BEING respect... so when you believe in God, it's like believing in Love, believing in Truth... so now that being said, if you believe in Love... are you gonna go around parading the streets doing sins cause your "forgiven".... nope, heck I would suspect that your not forgiven if you think like that because a believer understands that sin is a terrible thing and that there is a God.
Here's a passage on it..
James 2:14-26 NKJV - Faith Without Works Is Dead - What does - Bible Gateway
So if you have Faith, then there will be works... if your just fooling people and saying HEY I believe and then turn around and burn a church... nobody, even non-christians won't believe you (idealy, unfortunatly some non-christians don't think logically sometimes tho)
So yeah, I'd question if your saved and have faith if your going around burning churches lol
It's a new life and also on that note, I want to also say that it's also a process.... people don't turn into angels in a second... God timely removes all the garbage in us.
Years ago, I used to be racist, to the point of possibly going underground, like KKK sorta thing. Now, I just think it's very foolish to think like that and apprecaite people much more for who they are instead of the color of thier skin.
So yeah people could be saved and still be dirty with sin, at first just so you know but your life slowly changes. I have works, I'm not thinking of joining some underground group like I was before... thats one works that shows my faith, and how God seriously helped me.