Is there sin "in Christ"? NOK Phil,
My opinion is you don’t understand what it means when it says the flesh is crucified. If you get a day without sinning I would be shocked, but if that’s your journey go for it.
Peace with you
Personally speaking i'm trying to keep to the love all as self path. That is definitely not the default path of mankind or most Christians, especially the politically minded IMO. Theirs is the path of self interest, the adversarial spirit to God.If you are not doing His will, whose will are you doing?
Technically, prodigal by definition means wastefully or recklessly extravagant so the term itself has nothing to do with your claim that only true prodigals return and repent. A prodigal can spend his/her whole life being a prodigal evidencing no repentance.Technically, an Unrepentant Prodigal, is not a Prodigal at all, for only true Prodigals do return and Repent.
Does this mean, an Unrepentant Prodigal, in actual fact was never a SON at all, for only a true Son, has the ability to return to HIS FATHERS house and Repent.
You find the question insulting yet you refuse to answer it. How ironic. Moreover you have failed to respond or deal with any of the texts I previously cited which contradict your view. Why is that? I prefer to believe Jesus instead of your view when He plainly stated that He did "not come to abolish the Law and the prophets" and that "until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished."Frankly I find your question insulting.
You obviously have no idea what I am talking about or you would never need to keep asking such a question.
The Law of the spirit within far surpasses any written Law because Jesus personally indicates through His spirit within what is appropriate for every given circumstance - something the Law could never do.
Here is an example..
Rahab is commended for her faith in saving the spies by lying to the soldiers who would certainly have killed them. Had she followed the written Law and refused to bear false witness it would not have been an act of faith. That which is not of faith is sin.
How many times do I have to repeat that the written Law has past its use by date.
The Law of the Spirit within combined with the Spirit of the Fear of the Lord keeps us from straying to the point of loosing salvation. The Love of God within controls and constrains us for righteousness sake. We are motivated to good fruit by hearing and obeying the heart desires He gives. If we stray He will bring us back because we have been transferred into His kingdom, adopted as sons and daughters. He clearly states at the end of Jude that He keeps us from falling and presents us faultless.
Have you received the Holy Spirit and His Living Law within?
Have you experienced His constraining Love and His terrible Fear that keeps you on the rails?
If you have you will not need to revert to the dead letter, rather you will hear a voice behind you saying this is the way walk ye in it. The voice of the shepherd who knows you by name.
So where does the Scripture fit into all of this.
Without the spirit it is of no value because the truth is spiritually discerned.
By His grace through His inner voice, the Scripture is made alive by the personal Word of the author.
You find the question insulting yet you refuse to answer it. How ironic. Moreover you have failed to respond or deal with any of the texts I previously cited which contradict your view. Why is that? I prefer to believe Jesus instead of your view when He plainly stated that He did "not come to abolish the Law and the prophets" and that "until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished."
I prefer to take Jesus at His word and it's your prerogative to minimize or ignore Jesus' words.
You've got to realize that those NOT on your path are not really Christians.Personally speaking i'm trying to keep to the love all as self path. That is definitely not the default path of mankind or most Christians, especially the politically minded IMO. Theirs is the path of self interest, the adversarial spirit to God.
Need I point out to you the obvious? Your obfuscation continues. I asked you the "insulting" question whether murder, stealing, lying, coveting is okay now since you believe that the law is annulled precisely because it illustrates the absurdity of your view. Obviously we all know that those sins are not okay. However if you bothered to answer the question directly with a simple yes - those sins are not okay, for you or anybody - then by default you would have to acknowledge that the 10 Commandments which are part of the Law still do apply today. That admission would then destroy your contention that the Law is annulled. Any further questions??Utter nonsense...
I answered your question more than once.
You cant dialogue without insulting my walk with Jesus and judging my integrity because I refuse to agree with your theology.
Have a nice day.
Need I point out to you the obvious? Your obfuscation continues. I asked you the "insulting" question whether murder, stealing, lying, coveting is okay now since you believe that the law is annulled precisely because it illustrates the absurdity of your view. Obviously we all know that those sins are not okay. However if you bothered to answer the question directly with a simple yes - those sins are not okay, for you or anybody - then by default you would have to acknowledge that the 10 Commandments which are part of the Law still do apply today. That admission would then destroy your contention that the Law is annulled. Any further questions??
Our church is called...The Church By Christ Jesus (Eph 3:21)...
We do preach perfect obedience to God.
Suit yourself.No further questions.
As for me I enjoy a better covenant with better promises that you seem to fail to understand.
The Law of the Spirit of Christ, which Carl mentioned, is Holy Spirit Power for caring and for virtue. Jesus will look for fruit in others' lives, which He can clock to our account.
That is the only kingdom. For instance, some who were called, will be somehow just about saved but not enter the kingdom.
Isn't every sect a cult at one time or another?Smells like a cult. How you can claim perfection blows me away - even Paul didn't claim that.
Isn't every sect a cult at one time or another?
Christianity was a cult in it's first years.
As for Paul. he wrote..."Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame." (1 Cor 15:34)
And..."...The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity." (2 Tim 2:19)
And..."For he that is dead is freed from sin." (Rom 6:7)
Perfect obedience to God was in his wheelhouse.
We can still open the prayer as Jesus instructed,
He provides our daily "bread" and has forgiven the trespasses of us that have turned from sin as we are to forgive those who sin against us.