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I'd consider those 2 separate and not necessarily connected statements. Joseph's DNA alteration is nowhere to be found other than imaginations.
but it's a an orthodox doctrine that believers are sealed by the Holy Spirit and cannot be possessed by devils.
One does not have to be "possessed" to be tempted internally, which places the tempter where?
That's the accuser of the brethren's methodology. Blame anyone and anything BUT the devil
There is personal responsibility involved too, angels are tempters but we make the decision.
No one stops devils from sinning via their decisions because they are not the decision makers for those entities
a devil is outside, not inside, as someone who battles them, I always know it's outside trying to whisper in.
You'd like to think so, but no, temptation via the forms of evil thoughts does transpire within and defiles us all, in our thoughts/minds and it is demonic, i.e. of the tempter. Even moreso in fact after salvation. That is in fact where the "battles" take place. Internally.
That is in fact exactly what happens. Your will never justified the tempter in you, ever. No matter how good you think you are isolated from the fact. I think such believers just fell asleep at the wheel and forgot from whom they were divided from.
Brilliant deduction. Neither do right or moral decisions or acts remove sin. Dominate? Yes. Cover? Yes. But eliminate? NOPE
This is what the Bible teaches
IF sin were only of the person, you'd have a point.
Its not my point its Scripture
Sin is of the person, under the influence of the devil. Its all a matter of who we are submitting ourselves to and serving. Many serve the devil, some without realizing because they like their sins more than they love Jesus to ask His help in forsaking them. Many refuse to allow God to define sin 1 John3:4 and righteousness Psa 119:172 Isa 56:1-2, so they cover their sins and stay in darkness.
Many of the law of Moses was meant for the Israelites during the trial of the wilderness. There is nothing in the NC about mixing fabrics, but the Sabbath in the NC is still a commandment of God Luke 23:56 that remains for the people of God Heb4:9NIV
Half siblings.
Except for the parts that shows the devil is completely involved in sin IN MAN.
Well, I guess we can entertain your circular logic, trying to claim it's just the person, but not just the person.
As I said, sin is of the devil, no doubt, but its a matter of who is bigger in our life. The devil or God. I believe our God is bigger to keep us from sin, than the devil is to keep us in sin. Its all about choices.
The individual makes a choice on who they choose to yield themselves to. I do not think standing before Christ on Judgement Day saying its all the devils fault is going to work- the devil deceived 1/3 of the holy angels, not all of them just like he will not deceive all of us, but the majority. Mat 7:13-14 Christ gave us another option of who to yield ourselves to Rom 6:16 John 14:6 1 John 2:6 1 Peter 2:21-22. If we have no choice, no way to control ourselves from temptation and sin and its all the devils fault, than there would be no point of the trial we are in today, just as those before us. Heb 3:7-19 Heb 4:11.
