Peace to ALL who set their Hands to Peace!
Romans 8:3
For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh
He condemned SIN, not mankind. MANKIND is not SIN.
Sin and Mankind ARE NOT THE SAME...but sin and mankind "currently occupy" ONE place...that being our fleshly containers.
Paul writes: (from Romans 7):
"So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me."
and
"for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me AND through it (the written law) killed me."
The LAW was written AGAINST SIN and FOR MANKIND! That is one reason Paul says "we uphold the law."
The law is for (written to COMMAND) the lawless ones....SIN!
It is THROUGH THE LAW that SIN is SHOWN or revealed TO US! The COMMANDMENTS CAME to show us that SIN that dwells with or within us BUT is not US.
God gave "the law/commandment" in the Garden to "not eat" and sin quickly came to show itself IN AND THROUGH ADAM! The Serpent showed himself IN ADAM and SPRANG UP and was REVEALED by THE COMMANDMENT!
NOT I, but SIN
...SIN...NOT Paul, NOT you, NOT I! --- SIN
It is SIN that is condemned by The Law! It is THE LIFE OF SIN that we are both to HATE and TO LOSE. It is our father, the devil, that we are to hate...and his "wife" all of "his offspring."
Luke 14:26
"If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.
Now read--- If Adam is a SON OF GOD, then SO ARE ALL OF ADAMS OFFSPRING!
"Luke 3:38
the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
There is a POSITION/PORTION of God in EACH OF US that will NOT either SIN or be held ACCOUNTABLE for SIN!
---God has PLACED HIMSELF into the MIDST OF HIS ENEMIES---satan, demons, and their entire "family."
John 9:
As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth.
And His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?"
Jesus answered, "It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
"We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work.
"While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."
"When He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes, and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated, Sent). So he went away and washed, and came back seeing."
Neither this man NOR his parents sinned!
The most interesting part (to me) is the place where he was told to wash...the pool of Siloam. The translators thought kindly enough to put in the meaning in parenthesis which they always do where there is (perhaps) a vagueness. The (possible) reason for the vagueness is that SILOAM also has a ROOT WORD in Hebrew which ALSO means SENT AWAY.
Siloam {sil-o-am'}of Hebrew origin 7975; n pr loc
AV - Siloam 3; 3 Siloam = "sent"
7975 Shiloach {shee-lo'-akh} or (in imitation of 07974) Shelach from 7971; n pr locAV - Siloah 2; 2 Shiloah or Siloah = "sent"
7971 shalach {shaw-lakh'}a primitive root--
1) to send, send away
1a4) to let loose
1c1) to send off or away or out
So AT THIS POOL we have a picture---the place of washing to receive SIGHT.
The Pool of Siloam (can) mean both Shiloah (The Sent One-Blind Man) and Shalac...(the sent away one-SIN!)
The ONE sent AWAY from the blind man WAS SIN!
SEE?!!! IT was NOT THE BLIND MAN, but THE SINN(ER) that JESUS separated FROM HIM!!!
With His Saliva(word/water), and dust (our bodies) mixed...then washed away for OUR vision.
The blind man did not sin. This is how it is with all of us. It is SIN that SINS, not US.
Now read (the subject matter of this post)
1 John 3:9
No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
Yet we know from Paul in Romans that---ALL HAVE SINNED!
Some say The Word does not make sense, and is not inspired BECAUSE OF THESE CONTRADICTIONS. These "supposed" contradictions are NOT WITHOUT A PURPOSE! They POINT and FORCE us to SEEK understanding apart from the natural (sin) mind.
Now we see another ACT OF SIN here:
Galatians 2:11
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.
Paul called Peter Cephas...his old name. His "other" name.
The "name" that SIN spoke through. "Cephas" means hollow Rock. Petros was the "real, solid rock."
Peter was used a few times in text to SHOW that satan(sin-demons) can USE any PERSON, including an "Apostle."
Peter/Cephas----Saul/Paul ----same deal----the old self CONTROLLED BY SATAN and a SLAVE OF SIN...and the NEW MEN. Peter the Rock and Paul the (man of sin put in chains.)
May you wash the mud from your eyes in The Word of the Pool of Siloam and find your way of TRUTH separations through THE WORD!
March through The Word in this way of proper SEPARATIONS on the RIGHT HAND and the LEFT HAND and YOU WILL SEE your MAKER clearly!
There are TWO KINGDOMS....One visible and one unseen...
It is that UNSEEN ONE that will be UTTERLY DESTROYED! Mankind will be SPARED as Sons of God...believing mankind or blinded mankind...Sin will not be HELD AGAINST mankind....
GOD IS LOVE, and HIS WORD is TRUTH! It is SIN that is both the stranger, and the sent away one, NOT YOU!
The PUNISHMENT AND DESTRUCTION scriptures are written to THEM!
and
God is Love to ALL people regardless of what THEY think.
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Romans 8:3
For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh
He condemned SIN, not mankind. MANKIND is not SIN.
Sin and Mankind ARE NOT THE SAME...but sin and mankind "currently occupy" ONE place...that being our fleshly containers.
Paul writes: (from Romans 7):
"So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me."
and
"for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me AND through it (the written law) killed me."
The LAW was written AGAINST SIN and FOR MANKIND! That is one reason Paul says "we uphold the law."
The law is for (written to COMMAND) the lawless ones....SIN!
It is THROUGH THE LAW that SIN is SHOWN or revealed TO US! The COMMANDMENTS CAME to show us that SIN that dwells with or within us BUT is not US.
God gave "the law/commandment" in the Garden to "not eat" and sin quickly came to show itself IN AND THROUGH ADAM! The Serpent showed himself IN ADAM and SPRANG UP and was REVEALED by THE COMMANDMENT!
NOT I, but SIN
...SIN...NOT Paul, NOT you, NOT I! --- SIN
It is SIN that is condemned by The Law! It is THE LIFE OF SIN that we are both to HATE and TO LOSE. It is our father, the devil, that we are to hate...and his "wife" all of "his offspring."
Luke 14:26
"If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.
Now read--- If Adam is a SON OF GOD, then SO ARE ALL OF ADAMS OFFSPRING!
"Luke 3:38
the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
There is a POSITION/PORTION of God in EACH OF US that will NOT either SIN or be held ACCOUNTABLE for SIN!
---God has PLACED HIMSELF into the MIDST OF HIS ENEMIES---satan, demons, and their entire "family."
John 9:
As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth.
And His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?"
Jesus answered, "It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
"We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work.
"While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."
"When He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes, and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated, Sent). So he went away and washed, and came back seeing."
Neither this man NOR his parents sinned!
The most interesting part (to me) is the place where he was told to wash...the pool of Siloam. The translators thought kindly enough to put in the meaning in parenthesis which they always do where there is (perhaps) a vagueness. The (possible) reason for the vagueness is that SILOAM also has a ROOT WORD in Hebrew which ALSO means SENT AWAY.
Siloam {sil-o-am'}of Hebrew origin 7975; n pr loc
AV - Siloam 3; 3 Siloam = "sent"
7975 Shiloach {shee-lo'-akh} or (in imitation of 07974) Shelach from 7971; n pr locAV - Siloah 2; 2 Shiloah or Siloah = "sent"
7971 shalach {shaw-lakh'}a primitive root--
1) to send, send away
1a4) to let loose
1c1) to send off or away or out
So AT THIS POOL we have a picture---the place of washing to receive SIGHT.
The Pool of Siloam (can) mean both Shiloah (The Sent One-Blind Man) and Shalac...(the sent away one-SIN!)
The ONE sent AWAY from the blind man WAS SIN!
SEE?!!! IT was NOT THE BLIND MAN, but THE SINN(ER) that JESUS separated FROM HIM!!!
With His Saliva(word/water), and dust (our bodies) mixed...then washed away for OUR vision.
The blind man did not sin. This is how it is with all of us. It is SIN that SINS, not US.
Now read (the subject matter of this post)
1 John 3:9
No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
Yet we know from Paul in Romans that---ALL HAVE SINNED!
Some say The Word does not make sense, and is not inspired BECAUSE OF THESE CONTRADICTIONS. These "supposed" contradictions are NOT WITHOUT A PURPOSE! They POINT and FORCE us to SEEK understanding apart from the natural (sin) mind.
Now we see another ACT OF SIN here:
Galatians 2:11
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.
Paul called Peter Cephas...his old name. His "other" name.
The "name" that SIN spoke through. "Cephas" means hollow Rock. Petros was the "real, solid rock."
Peter was used a few times in text to SHOW that satan(sin-demons) can USE any PERSON, including an "Apostle."
Peter/Cephas----Saul/Paul ----same deal----the old self CONTROLLED BY SATAN and a SLAVE OF SIN...and the NEW MEN. Peter the Rock and Paul the (man of sin put in chains.)
May you wash the mud from your eyes in The Word of the Pool of Siloam and find your way of TRUTH separations through THE WORD!
March through The Word in this way of proper SEPARATIONS on the RIGHT HAND and the LEFT HAND and YOU WILL SEE your MAKER clearly!
There are TWO KINGDOMS....One visible and one unseen...
It is that UNSEEN ONE that will be UTTERLY DESTROYED! Mankind will be SPARED as Sons of God...believing mankind or blinded mankind...Sin will not be HELD AGAINST mankind....
GOD IS LOVE, and HIS WORD is TRUTH! It is SIN that is both the stranger, and the sent away one, NOT YOU!
The PUNISHMENT AND DESTRUCTION scriptures are written to THEM!
and
God is Love to ALL people regardless of what THEY think.
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