The esteemed apostle Paul also intended well, when persecuting the church, prior to the Lord opening his eyes.

Yet, although he was pardoned for those sins, he was still sinning, even if, as he himself writes, he committed them 'ignorantly, out of unbelief'.

And even that sinful act God used to scatter the church away from Jerusalem, so that the Gospel was, as a consequence, brought to the surrounding contries.

Still, that does not lessen the sin.

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Bert Mulder
Elder of the First Protestant Reformed Church of Edmonton
Edmonton Alberta Canada