If you cannot live by what you preach, as an example of what you preach, nobody will want to listen to your interpretation that you cannot even live up to.
That is being hypocritical.
That is what you falsely assume of me. You know nothing about me. You just are throwing false accusations at me with no real evidence. I told you I only confide in those I trust. You are not somebody I trust because you are hell bent on justifying that believers can sin and still be saved. But God's grace is not a license for immorality (Jude 1:4).
You said:
as to Matthew 5:28-30, it shows a seriousness that which we should wage war against sin, but, if Jesus meant you should quite literally seriously injure yourself and risk death because you might look at a woman and have an impulse of lust.. well, is the bible advocating suicide?
We'd have a lot of blind, and quadruple amputees dying of infections if we were to take that literally.
Do you take literally that we're to die daily? Just commit suicide daily?
Probably not.
This is a common tactic in your camp. You do not understand that even when we speak today, we use slang or metaphor mingled in with literal communication. Just because one part is metaphor, does not mean the whole entire thing is metaphor. Besides, Jesus warned elsewhere of sins' destruction to our souls if we do not repent (confess and forsake sin). In Matthew 6:15, Jesus says that if we do not forgive, the Father will not forgive us. This is a condition we have to meet in order to receive forgiveness and or salvation. Just as we have to not look at women in lust (in regards to adultery and fornication), otherwise our whole body can be cast into hellfire.
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You also have me wrong on 1 John 1:9
what I am saying is that when you confess sins to the Father and ask for forgiveness, you are forgiven by the same sacrifice of Jesus' blood, there is no further sacrifice you can perform to atone. Jesus was sufficient. You still have to ask for it.
and the other condition is, you have to forgive others for what you are asking God to forgive you for. So, if someone stole from you and you steal something, and you hold a grudge against the thief and ask God to forgive your theft....
that's not gonna work out.
You have to forgive the person who stole from you, then ask God to forgive you for when you stole (just to give an example, not accusing you of stealing)
I THINK we both understand 1 John 1:9 the same way it's just that you are thinking we'd never need to use 1 John 1:9 and ask for forgiveness because of a belief that you never sin.
A believer should not be hypocritical. If they are being a hypocrite, and it is in regards to them doing mortal sin, then they will be condemned by God. But if OSAS is true, it doesn't matter how you live and you can be a hypocrite and still be saved by having a belief on Jesus. For if a believer tells people to follow the Bible that has righteous instruction and yet they turn around and do not follow those instructions, they are only bring damnation upon themselves.
As for 1 John 1:9:
You still are not reading this verse and believing it at face value.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9).
It says IF we confess our sins.
IF is a conditional statement. IF I take out the garbage, I will not have a smelly garage.
IF I stay away from foods that will make me fat, I will be in better shape physically.
IF we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.
You want to be forgiven before even confessing of sin.
Forgiveness in the Bible deals with salvation.
A person cannot be unforgiven and still be saved.
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I know I fall short of the glory of God. even if I don't know exactly what I did that was a sin, even when I try to avoid sin. There is always some more profitable way I could be using my time and I'm not doing it. Mayhe I only read through 5 chapters of the bible that day and I know I should be reading more, I consider that to be a sin for me. Because James 4:17.
I know that even on facebook, there was a chance to proclaim the gospel in a comment and I didn't do it, that's a sin to me.
Sometimes because of James 4:17 setting such a high bar, I feel like, if I'm doing ANYTHING aside from reading the bible, praying, going to church, singing worship songs, witnessing to people, or doing the basic required things for my physical body to live, I've sinned.
We likely have different definitions for what we consider to be sin, and I have a very low threshold for what I consider to be sin and you may have a higher threshold, and therefore I see myself sinning more and you see yourself sinning less.
But I can't overlook James 4:17
But you propogate a gospel that is no gospel at all. People can be misled to think they can sin and still be saved by your belief. There is no real change. For God's grace teaches us to deny ungodliness, and that we should live righteously and godly in this present world (Titus 2:11-12). The purpose Christ died for us was to sanctify us with the washing of the water of the Word so that Christ can present to Himself a church that is holy and without spot and blemish (See: Ephesians 5:25-27). You just assumed I sin because you believe everyone sins. So you believe that salvation is not in living holy for the Lord, but it is by sinning with you being saved because you have a belief alone on Jesus. But even the demons believe and tremble.