There you go again with the old "bait-and-switch" of the used car salesman...
1Jn 2:3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.
1Jn 2:4 He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
1Jn 3:22 And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.
1Jn 3:23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.
1Jn 3:24 Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us..
I am sorry but I respectfully disagree. How does this post address anything in
post # 59 that you are responding to? - It doesn't. As shown from the scriptures in the post you are quoting from sin is defined in the scriptures as breaking anyone of God's 10 commandments in *James 2:10-11; 1 John 3:4; Romans 7:7; Romans 3:20. John states that no one can claim to know God by breaking his commandments in 1 John 2:3-4 and 1 John 3:6 while stating that sin is the transgression of the law in 1 John 3:4 agreeing with James in James 2:10-11 where as if you kept reading John it tells us that those who are born again in 1 John 3:6-9 do not practice sin (breaking God's law and not believing and following what God's Word says).
Furthermore according to the scriptures no one loves God or their fellow man by breaking God's commandments as love is expressed in obedience to them and is why Jesus in *Matthew 22:36-40; Paul in *Romans 13:8-12; James in James 2:8-12 and John in 1 John 5:2-3 all show that love is expressed in obedience to God's commandments in fulfillment of God's new covenant promise in Hebrews 8:10-12 from Jeremiah 31:31-34 and Ezekiel 36:24-27. Are you seriously going to try and argue here that we can love God while breaking his commandments? I asked you some questions earlier....
Do you love God by having other Gods?
Do you love God by making idols and bowing down to worship them?
Do you love God by taking Gods' name in vain?
Do you love God by breaking his holy Sabbath day?
Do you love your parents by dishonoring them?
Do you love your neighbor by killing them?
Do you love your neighbor by committing adultery with their spouse?
Do you love your neighbor by stealing from them?
Do you love your neighbor by lying to them?
Do you love your neighbor by coveting their belongings?
This is why Jesus says by quoting Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18 that on these two great commandments of love to God and man hang all the law and the prophets *Matthew 22:36-40. Love is not separate from Gods' law it is linked to Gods' law and is expressed in obedience to Gods' law from the heart. This is why Paul says if we love our neighbor as our self we do well then goes on to say For this we will not break any of God's 10 commandments that are our duty of love to our neighbor in Romans 13:8-10 and that these commandments (love to God and love to our fellow man) are simply summing up obedience from the heart to God's 10 commandments.
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1 John 5:2-3 [2], By this we know that we love the children of God, WHEN WE LOVE GOD, AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. [3],
FOR THIS IS THE LOVE OF GOD, THAT WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS: and his commandments are not grievous.
Matthew 22:36-40
[36], Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
[37], Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
[38], This is the first and great commandment.
[39], And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
[40], ON THESE TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
Romans 13:8-10
[8], Owe no man anything, but to LOVE ONE ANOTHER: for HE THAT LOVES ANOTHER HAS FULFILLED THE LAW.
[9], FOR THIS, THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, THOU SHALT NOT KILL, THOU SHALT NOT STEAL, THOU SHALT NOT LIE, THOU SHALT NOT COVET; and IF THERE SHALL BE ANY OTHER COMMANDMENT, it is BRIEFLY SUMMED UP in this saying, namely, THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF.
[10], Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore LOVE IS THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW.
James 2:8-12
[8], If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
[9], But if ye have respect to persons, YOU COMMIT SIN, AND ARE CONVINCED OF THE LAW AS TRANSGRESSORS.
[10], For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
[11] For he that said, DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, said also, DO NOT KILL. Now if thou commit NO ADULTERY, yet if thou KILL, YOU ARE BECOME A TRANSGRESSOR OF GOD'S LAW
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God's Word does not teach lawlessness (without law) and love is not separate from God's law. Love is expressed through obedience to Gods' law from the heart which is God's new covenant promise in all those who have been born again to believe and follow God's Word *Hebrews 8:10-12 from Jeremiah 31:-31-34; Ezekiel 36:24-27; 1 John 3:6-9.
Take Care.