Oloyedelove
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Being justified, aka made righteous, is different from the process thereafter, sometimes called sanctification. We are guilty before God, who is our judge, but through Christ the verdict is “not guilty”. That is one moment that happens when we give pur lives to Christ.
Galatians was written by Paul. In fact, he addressed a very similar issue in Romans 6:1-2.
“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”
Do you think he’d contradict himself?
He is addressing the main argument against being saved by faith, namely that if we are saved by grace, why not continue sinning. The situation described in Galatians is about the Jews going further and saying that if his identification with Christ led him into sin, then Christ was the cause of his sin.
This would be true, but Paul already gave an answer that shatters this statement in Romans 6:1-2.
It was said in the OT that the Christ would come and free the prisoners, among other things (Isiah 42:7). Such is the case that by professing our faith in Christ and dying to sin, we are no longer under the power of our slavemaster, which is our sin, but through Christ have the power to resist.
Being made righteous does not mean being holy. Upon receiving Christ and dying to sin through his crucifiction start the Christians life, which is marked by the conflict of the soul that is made righteous against the sinful flesh. THAT is the process that lasts a lifetime. But only by putting our faith in Christ can we get started in the first place.
Saying that being saved is the result of a lifetime of work is to ignore a good chunk of the NT and devalues the free gift of salvation. Or are you saying that Christ’s death for our sins was imperfect and requires some help from us?
Now if after receiving ability to overcome sin some so called believers still think they could continuously live in sin and still be saved, what becomes the state of such?
Are they going to save or not?
1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? BE NOT DECEIVED: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Can u kindly explain the statement be not deceived. Go through the books of Paul and check the places he uses the statement BE NOT DECEIVED and check he means by those words. Then u will discover that in each of the verses he used that phrase he is always talking about living a sinful life and somebody deceiving the believer he would still be saved when Christ comes.
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