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Kylie Bisutti #fundie imnoangel.org

What Josh did is inexcusable. NOT UNFORGIVABLE.
Proverbs 28:13
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

He confessed his sins and asked for forgiveness. His victims as well as the Lord have forgiven him and he has changed and become a better person because of it. I look at this as his testimony of how he came to truly know Christs forgiveness, grace, and love. A testimony to how they grew as a family and grew closer to God. A testimony of how God can forgive even the most inexcusable sins.

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God doesn't just forgive sins like anger, lying, and stealing... He forgives murder, adultery, and rape. This is a testament to how only CHRIST can change a persons heart through his total love and grace towards that person. Parents may do everything they can to raise up Godly children (and I believe we should) but at the end of the day God has to be the one to change the heart.

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.

We are all born into sin. We are all born DEAD to sin and it is not until we become born again that we even have the power of the Holy Spirit to flee it. Josh has shown that after God changed his heart, he became a new person.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

He has changed since this time. All because of Christ.

God can change anyone. I'm thankful he changed me and my wretched heart. I'm thankful he forgave and still forgives me of my sins. This doesn't mean that my sins were ok. It's quite opposite. They were inexcusable. Like Josh's. But only a God as big as king Jesus can take the inexcusable and transform him or her into a new creature -- all for His glory. What a testimony of Gods power to restore love in such a hard situation. I look at this and rather than seeing hate and wanting to judge. I SEE CHRIST. I SEE HIS POWER. HIS GLORY. HIS PRESENCE. HIS GRACE. I support the Duggars and I will be a vessel of encouragement to my brothers and sisters in Christ in their time of pain. We are called to love the sinner not the sin and that is what I will do. After all, my family loves me even when I mess up. I don't know what I would do without that love and support. So I will pass it on. The Duggars have never claimed to be perfect or to have all the answers or to be better than anyone -- and they aren't. They are human. We all are. We all make mistakes in our lives. We either learn from them and change our ways (by Gods grace) or we continue in them and play victim. I see that Josh Duggar has learned from his mistake and that he is a child of God. He changed his life and that's an awesome testimony. If we didn't have sin why would we need a savior? We all have sin and are all in DESPERATE need of a savior. And when you experience that saviors unfailing love and forgiveness.... It changes you!