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The same person who teaches a believer will sin, contrasts that with a false believer who lives a lifestyle of sin (1 John 3:4). There is a difference. Might do you some good to realize that difference so you don't keep conflating the characteristics of believers and nonbelievers, because right now you are pushing a false gospel, something Paul claims you should be cursed for doing.
How many sins did it take for Adam to commit in order to cause the fall of mankind?
How many sins did it take for Ananias and Sapphira to each commit before they were killed by God?
It only took one.
In fact....
If a Christian can get to heaven with a “little” sin because their penalty has already been paid, then nothing in this world or the next could possibly “unpay” the largest quantity sin, or even the worst quality of evil committed in the one who is Eternally Secure. Either Eternal Security is a free license to sin, or it is no Eternal Security at all!
What about the prodigal son? Was he saved while he was living a prodigal life?
What about King David? Was he saved while he committed his sins of adultery and murder?
See, the problem in thinking a believer can do a little bit of sin while under God’s grace is that it can lead them to justify doing sin all the time.
Imagine telling a child that all their future sin was forgiven them, and you never got to see them again.
It is possible that they could turn out to be the next George Sodini.
George Sodini is an Eternal Security Proponent who killed a bunch of people and then took his own life and he wrote in his own suicide letter the following words:
“Maybe soon, I will see God and Jesus. At least that is what I was told. Eternal life does NOT depend on works. If it did, we will all be in hell. Christ paid for EVERY sin, so how can I or you be judged BY GOD for a sin when the penalty was ALREADY paid. People judge but that does not matter. I was reading the Bible and The Integrity of God beginning yesterday, because soon I will see them.”
Do you think believers do not lust after woman every day?
Not to worry in your book, right?
Jesus paid for their sins.
No need to worry about sin.
A believer cannot lose salvation.
1 John 1:8 says if we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. This is speaking in the present tense. It also doesn't sound like it is referring to occasional sin, either. It sounds like one is always in some kind of sin if you are to take the erroneous OSAS interpretation on 1 John 1:8.
As for your mention of 1 John 3 that says, "practices sin":
Well, this is 1 John 3:9, and not 1 John 3:4. Also, the King James (Which existed hundreds of years before Modern Translations showed up) says:
"doth not commit sin;" (1 John 3:9). This is in reference to abiding in Jesus (1 John 3:6). When we abide in Jesus, we do not commit sin. Meaning: We cannot see WHILE we are in Jesus. How can we have an assurance that we know the Lord and abide in His love? We abide in Jesus when we obey Him or when we keep His commandments (See: 1 John 2:3, 1 John 15:10).
Also, 1 John 3:15 says whoever hates his brother is like a murderer and no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
You believe that you have to practice sin according to 1 John 3 in order to be condemned. So this means you believe that a person has to practice murder in order to be a murderer. Yet, the Bible teaches in Numbers 35:16-18 that it only takes one act of murder to be a murderer.
As for your reference to Galatians 3:10 that says, "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse":
What Law is Paul talking about?
"This is what I mean: The laws [given to Moses] 430 years after God had already put his promise [to Abraham] into effect didn't cancel the promise [to Abraham]. (Galatians 3:17) (God's Word Translation).
Clearly the "Law" being referenced in Galatians 3:10 is the 613 laws of Moses and they are not the laws or commands given to us by Jesus and His followers.
"For the law was given by Moses,
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." (John 1:17).
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