I would seriously like an answer to this question: What does it mean to be “backslidden” or as they say here in the south, “backslid as a convict”? I am very curious as to what professing believers think this is.
Hosea 11:7 (KJV)
[SUP]7 [/SUP]And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
Jeremiah 3:22 (KJV)
[SUP]22 [/SUP]Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
Hosea 14:4 (KJV)
[SUP]4 [/SUP]I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
Jeremiah 3:22 (KJV)
[SUP]22 [/SUP]Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
Hosea 11:7 (KJV)
[SUP]7 [/SUP]And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
Jeremiah 3:22 (KJV)
[SUP]22 [/SUP]Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
Hosea 14:4 (KJV)
[SUP]4 [/SUP]I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
Jeremiah 3:22 (KJV)
[SUP]22 [/SUP]Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.