Doug Melven
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I personally don't care for Luther's "Sin boldly" comment.Century lady. Please. Don’t have a heart attack..... I like you too much for that!
I know it is not what Luther meant, at least I hope not, but I believe he did mean all our sins are paid for no matter how many or how heinous.
It is like saying, "Jesus paid for all of my sins, so I can just go out and sin all I want".
No one who gets an understanding of the fact that Jesus paid for all of our sin would want to do that.
But, some people see the doctrine that Jesus paid for all our sin and without an understanding of it go to the other extreme and say it can't be true and we have to have good behavior/law keeping.
And then they use Luther's statement as ammunition against the truth that Jesus did pay for all our sins, no matter how great a sinner we are and we still sin even as believers.
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