Yes, he doesn't believe this passage
(on several different levels) ...
Your statement is far from true. In fact, it's an untruth. What I noticed is that you cited 4 verses, but didn't include all of them in the quote. Instead, you covered for your coverup by not including the verse #s. Why was that?
“Little children, let no one deceive you.
He who practices righteousness is righteous,
just as He is righteous … In this the children of God
and the children of the devil are manifest:
Whoever does NOT practice righteousness
is NOT of God, NOR is he who does NOT
love his brothers/sisters.” (1 John 3:7-10)
So, let's look at ALL the verses:
7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.
8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.
9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.
10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
So, you left out v.8,9. Why?
So, let's examine each verse.
v.7 is a warning about being led astray by false doctrine. And of course a righteous person will 'do what is right'.
v.8 links all sin (does what is sinful) to the devil. And the final sentence states the goal of Christ's First Advent; to destroy the penalty of sin.
v.9 appears to state that born again people do not sin any more. But other verses clearly indicate that we all continue to sin. The key is to understand what being "born again" includes and really means. John noted "God's seed" remaining in the born again person. This is the Holy Spirit. The phrase 'born of God' occurs twice. So we have to take this phrase literally. So, what has been "born again", specifically? The only thing that makes sense is what "died that day" in the garden when Adam ate the forbidden fruit; the human spirit. Jesus told the woman at the well one must worship God in spirit and in truth. I believe Jesus was telling the woman she needed her dead human spirit to be reborn in order to worship God. When a person believes in Christ, they are said to be born again. I believe it is the human spirit that is regenerated, and I believe that is where the Holy Spirit resides in us. It makes no sense for the Spirit to reside in our flesh, which is corrupt.
So, v.9 teaches that when the believer functions from the human spirit, rather than their "flesh", where the human nature is, they can't sin. Remember that ch 1 is all about fellowship with the Lord and other believers. So, believers who don't want to sin must be in fellowship with the Lord, through confession of sin (1 Jn 1:9), and be filled with the Spirit (Eph 518) which means to "walk by the Spirit" in Gal 5:16a. Those who do "will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh" per Gal 5:16b.
Believers who don't confess their sins, aren't cleansed (purified), and are grieving the Spirit (Eph 4:30) or quenching the Spirit (1 Thess 5:19). These believers, though born again, are functioning from their human nature, in opposition to the Spirit. They cannot avoid sin.
v.10 has been wrongly translated. Rather than "not a child of God", the Greek does NOT include the word for "child". So, it should read, "not of God".
When children of royalty aren't acting like it, their behavior is "not of their parents".
So the passage doesn't say a born again believer changes spiritual DNA from a child of God to a child of the devil. But Arminians generally think that's what it says.
The following BACs actually are children of Satan, and who obviously are not on their way to heaven:
-- BACs who do not practice righteousness
-- BACs who do not love their fellow believers
These BACs have fallen from grace, and
unless they sincerely repent, they are forever lost.
No, they actually aren't children of Satan, on their way to hell.
Eph 1:13,14 refutes any notion of any who "have believed" ever going to hell.
13 And
you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation.
When you believed, you were
marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,
14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.
The red words speak of HOW a person is placed in union with Christ; when they believe.
The blue words describe the Holy Spirit as a mark or seal, who is a deposit.
The green words explain what the indwelling Spirit or deposit does: GUARANTEES our inheritance.
The purpose words explain the time frame for this GUARANTEE; until the redemption of God's possession (His children).
You are free to address each color coded point to show me how I'm wrong.