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Believer is pretty general.
Whosoever is born of God, ie a son of God, is very specific, and can not sin. 1 John 3:9.
You do recall, Jesus was called, A Son of God, and could not sin. Yes?
When God reconciles us to Him, we become forgiven of our sins, our sins covered with His Light, remembered no more, and forward can sin no more, By His Power within us.
God Bless,
SBC
And so you never fail, not even slightly, in perfect obedience and imitation of God? In your thoughts, words, feelings, or actions you perfectly--by your own efforts--complete and fulfill God's Holy Law in which He says, "Love the Lord your God with all your strength, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all you mind; and love your neighbor as yourself"?
When someone asks of you, you never deny it to them? For Christ commands us that if someone asks for our coat we should give them our shirt as well.
When someone hates you or hurts you, you love them perfectly, having nothing but compassion toward them; never bearing a grudge, never thinking ill thoughts or having ill feelings toward them? You perfectly love your enemy as you would your own brother, offering them food and drink as is commanded of you?
Our God and King has told us that if we so much as have anger in our hearts against another we have violated the command against murder. If we have so much as lusted after another person we have violated the command against adultery.
He has told us, "You have heard it said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but I tell you that if someone strikes you on the right cheek to turn and offer the other as well."
So you uphold the Law of God by your own efforts with the same perfection as Christ?
Or do you fail on all these point, but claim it is not sin because you are forgiven. So that when you have failed to uphold the Law you say "It is okay, I am forgiven" and you do not repent, tremble, and have remorse for what you have done; when you have said ill things to your neighbor you say "I am forgiven" but you do not go to your neighbor to make amends as Christ commands you when He says, "If you are offering a gift to the altar and you remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift at the front of the altar and go be reconciled with your brother first"
-CryptoLutheran
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