Gal_2:11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
Gal_2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
If any man claims that he no longer sins, talk to his wife and you will find out he has just broken the 9th commandment...
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baberean2,
1. How long will you stay ignorant in understanding?
2. I don't disagree with whether or not Paul rebuked Peter and being hypocritical which was not walking to the truth.
3. I wouldn't say that a person will not commit a sin in his lifetime after they become a christian.
4. The point to begin with was whether or not one could live the whole Mosaic law at one time blamelessly and the scriptures point it out that it was possible and it happened. I didn't say it happened during their whole life like Christ who never sinned at all in his whole life.
5. Under the Mosaic law it was harder to stay consistent across the board because of the law of sin and death taking advantage of the law that was holy and good that could not help them perform it and the result was living in sin.
6. The bible says the law of Moses which was the old covenant had weaknesses and that the new covenant which is Christ death and resurrection was built on better promises.
This was not and is not because the law wasn't holy and good but Christ can give power to perform the commandment and the law and Christ has given the full measure of the Holy Spirit to be with us and not have interference with the law of sin and death to make us live into self effort.
7. God has done his best to give us everything for our advantage to live free from sin and overcome the enemy.
8. We can still sin just as much as the old covenant believers because we have freewill choice and we still are in a fight of the spirit versus the flesh not because Christ didn't give us every advantage through the new covenant.
9. Technically, if we lived in the Spirit every second of our life we could live sinless because the power of God is that strong. If we can overcome and abstain from sin for one second, one hour, one day, one year, etc. can be done all the time.
10. At the same time, John said all unrighteousness is sin and that covers alot of ground and because we have freewill choice and the fight of the flesh against the spirit we can tend and most likely will sin.
11. The point is not whether one can sin or not for the possibility is always there and we are not perfect in our knowledge and miss the mark. We have to have a greater mindset about being able to overcome sin instead of being defeated with "I can't help but sin" syndrome. This is why to understand Romans 7 in it's proper context is important for those christians who have a defeated attitude because they "can't help but sin" or that they are "only human thinking" to the extreme.
12. The bottom line is that the jews were able to do the rules of the whole law at one time but no one ever did it across the span of their lifetime like Christ.
You were saying that no one could ever keep the whole law at all and this was not true.
13. Today, we have greater promises and we are to be perfect in love and this is possible through the power of Christ.
14. John said if we are born of God doth not commit sin and James said if we sin we have an advocate with the father. There is a possibility not to sin but there is a condition to make sure that you don't sin.
15. I agree with the fact that we will not always be perfect about every single thing we do until we have a resurrected body, then we will have no potential to sin.
16. A conscience of sin will breed giving into sin. A conscience of overcoming sin will breed not giving into sin.
17. Defeated mindset or Victorious mindset? Does a person want to sin more or less? The more you sin the less you are being like God.
If I sin I admit I sin but if I don't sin I don't say I sin because I can't help but sin because I'm human and I sin everyday etc. That is legalistic thinking.
18. If one wants to prove how much a christian can save read Solomon and how vain man is without God.
19. Sinless perfection is not about never being able to sin which some teach but it is about the power of God in one's life so much that the struggle against sin is not a dominant thing. If one has an extreme belief of can't help but sin because you are human says subconsciously Satan has more power to keep you in sin than God has to keep you from sin.
20. So performing the code of ethics of the Mosaic law was possible and did happen scripturally. Abstaining from all appearance from evil is possible and Paul proved that he did everything to mortify the members of his body otherwise he could become a reprobate and he gloried in the cross. Paul never had a mindset of he couldn't help but sin after he became a christian and had received his revelations and went through his trials and sufferings.
21. Being sinless today and being perfect in love is possible and should be manifested more than a christian who believes in sinning more because this is why most believe they are just as good and better than believers.
Once again you are confused about what the true point is. Jerry Kelso