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What does it mean if you say someone is reprobate?

C
Christisking

I have a question.

What does it mean (in the Biblical sense) if you say someone is reprobate? Is it the same or different then if someone is apostate? If so how?


Thanks for any help you can give in sorting this out!


Patrick
www.revivalarmy.com

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[b]reprobate[/b] (online dictionary)

[i]–noun[/i]

1.\ta depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person: a drunken reprobate.
2.\ta person rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation.

[i]–adjective[/i]

3.\tmorally depraved; unprincipled; bad.
4.\trejected by God and beyond hope of salvation.

[i]–verb (used with object)[/i]

5.\tto disapprove, condemn, or censure.
6.\t(of God) to reject (a person), as for sin; exclude from the number of the elect or from salvation.

[b]apostate[/b] (online dictionary)

[i]-noun[/i]

1.\ta person who forsakes his religion, cause, party, etc.

[i]–adjective[/i]

2.\tof or characterized by apostasy.

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