“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. By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.”
1 John 3:9-10 NASB
Have you ever met a Christian who doesn’t sin? Brother John is saying that a child of God cannot sin. That’s exactly what I’ve been saying. When a person sins they are not acting like a child of God they are acting like a son of disobedience. Again we are servants of the one whom we serve. Either servants of righteousness resulting in life or servants of sin resulting in death. A child of God one moment and a son of disobedience the next.
And right here we see that you have done the same thing again. YOU have an agenda, something that you believe and now you go searching the Scriptures to find just one verse to validate what you WANT TO BELEIVE.
The first thing you should ask yourself is: What does the rest of the Bible teach about this issue? Christians are still sinners and do sin. They are forgiven but they still are sinners.
John himself in this same letter affirms this:...……………………..
Rom. 3:23......
"ALL have sinned and come short of the approval of God".
Have you read and understood Rom. 7:15-20........
"I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17
As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For
I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it".
Read 1 John 2:1,2.....
"Jesus’ atoning death forgives Christians when they sin.
If John believed that true Christians never sin, he wouldn’t have bothered to say this!
Read 1 John 1:8,10......
"Anyone who claims not to have sin is self-deceived and a liar"
—in fact, they are not saved(?)."
Do you just ignore these Scriptures because they do not help your thinking??????
This is the exact opposite of what 3:6 seems to say!
This should be enough to tip us off that John means something else. Consider a couple other clear New Testament statements on this issue:..........
Read excerpts from Rom.7:14-24. This was written AFTER PAUL WAS SAVED and was an APOSTLE. This is Paul agonizing over the presence of ongoing, indwelling sin in his present Christian life.
Read Jas. 3:2. Even if James had said “
You all stumble in many ways,” he is addressing true Christians! But he says
“We all stumble in many ways”—including himself."
So then what is John talking about????????
HE IS TALKING ABOUT "KNOWN HABITUAL" SIN>
One way to discover this is to look more closely at the actual language of the passage (e.g., semantic range and tenses of original Greek). When we take a close look, it is clear that John is talking about something other than Christians simply committing sins.
He uses present tenses for “sin” in 3:6,9b. In the Greek, present tenses describe ongoing action. John is saying not that Christians cannot commit sins—but that they cannot live in sin
as a settled character or lifestyle.
By adding the verb “practice” in 3:4,8,9a, John is making an even stronger statement. In fact, he is describing people who practice sin like the devil practices sin—that is, they intentionally make it
a settled habit. He is saying...…...
“No one who practices sin as a lifestyle (like the devil does) is born of God.”
So John is describing certain people who claim to know God—but who live in sin as a settled lifestyle and intentionally practice in the same way Satan practices sin.
So then my friend, What I am telling you is that you are just not deeply looking into and doing the Bible study to show yourself approved, a workman!
All Christians sin! YOU and ME are forgiven sinners.