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Well that's not quite what Paul says in 1st Corinthians 6 and we really don't need you paraphrasing it to know what it does say all we have to do is read it. Paul is referring to unrepentant sinners which is very evident by the fact that he says in v11; "that is what some of you were."
Paul is saying that they used to be sinners.
But they are not that way anymore.
Meaning they do not live like that anymore.
This does not equate with Paul agreeing that they will sin on occasion the rest of their lives (as part of their new life style). Paul says in Romans 6 that you are either a slave to sin or you are slave to righteousness. Jesus says he that sins is a slave to sin.
I mean, are you saying that a person can be an axe murderer on occasion and yet be a Christian?
Are you saying a person can sleep around with others on occasion and yet be a Christian?
How many sins does it take for you to be called a murderer or a liar or a fornicator?
Do you not know that Jesus defined repentance for us?
Jesus said in Matthew 12:41 that the Ninevites will rise up in Judgment against this generation because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. In Jonah 3:6-10 we learn that the King of the Ninevites had said for the people to cry out to God and to turn from their evil ways. Then God had seen that they turned from their wickedness and He did not bring Judgment or Wrath that He had originally planned for them (if they did not repent).
StanJ said:Jesus is our righteousness and we receive that righteousness when we confess him as our savior just as Paul says in Romans 10:9-11.
The passage says, confession is made UNTO salvation.
Paul does not say that we can have the mind set that we will always sin on occasion and that confession is our magic rabbit's foot to justify our sin. True repentance is when you are truly sickened by your sin and you want to put it away from your life. Yes, a believer can struggle with sin, but they do not seek to justify a lifestyle of remaining in their sin even on a occasion.
Let me give you a real world example.
Bob cheats on his wife Sarah and she finds out and admits his sin to her.
Now, if Bob told Sarah that he was going to cheat on her only on rare occasions as long as he admits his fault or sin to her, do you think she would be happy with that agreement? No. Of course not. Do you think she would think he repented of his sin? No. Of course not.
Yet, this is the same agreement you think you can get away with involving God.
It is absolutely preposterous.
Now, if Bob honestly struggled with trying to be faithful with his wife, then that is another matter. I believe God is merciful and can forgive a lot. 77 x 7 (Matthew 18:22). The Tax Collector vs. the Pharisee (Luke 18:9-14). But even still, if Bob did not clean up his act in time, Bob would have to realize that he could lose his wife. Why? Because it would show Bob loves his sin or another woman more than he does his wife. It is no different with God. If you love your sin more than you do God by remaining in your sin in this life (even if you hold onto doing just one sin on occasion the rest of your life - it is showing that you love your sin more than you do God). Jesus says you cannot serve two masters. For you will hate the one and love the other.
StanJ said:What both Paul and John indicate is a sinful unrepentant lifestyle not a repentant person who occasionally sins.
1 John 2:1-2
My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
So God is just interested in you paying lip service with no real ultimate change in your life? No real recovery over your sin? No doubt you believe Jesus can heal a person physically. But heal somebody of their sinful condition? That would be wrong? That would be impossible? Is your sin stronger than God?
I say thee nay.
Jesus says, with God all things are possible.
As for John. John tells us to, "sin not." John does not say, "I know you will always sin occasion so please confess those sins when you do."
John says, "sin not." This means you are not to sin. Jesus says to a man he healed to sin no more unless a worse thing were to come upon him. In your belief we have to conclude that Jesus was playing a cruel joke on this man and that he was telling this man to do the impossible whereby this man was going to face a worse thing coming upon him anyways.
28 "But what think you? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work today in my vineyard.
29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.
31 Which of the two did the will of his father? They said unto him, The first. Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
32 For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and you believed him not: but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him: and you, when you had seen it, repented not afterward, that you might believe him."
(Matthew 21:28-32).
"...if your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness!"
(Matthew 6:23).
For how many sins did it take for Adam and Eve to commit for them to cause a separation between God and man?
It only took one sin.
God is not a respecter of persons.
God is fair and good in His Judgment with all people.
Yet, you somehow think God has changed.
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