need answers....people have told me that as christians we cannot sin. in first john
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We are not supposed to sin but we still do sin but we are forgivin because of Jesus dying for all of our sins.need answers....people have told me that as christians we cannot sin. in first john
What you're finding about habitual sin is from a difference in the way the Greek language uses its verbs. "Someone born of God does not continue sinning [but seeks to stop his sins]." A few notes about context will make this clear, too.need answers....people have told me that as christians we cannot sin. in first john
What you're finding about habitual sin is from a difference in the way the Greek language uses its verbs. "Someone born of God does not continue sinning [but seeks to stop his sins]." A few notes about context will make this clear, too.
At the end of his life John had serious conflicts with a group of people called "Gnostics". Among them, Cerinthus thought that the division between the spirit and the body was so great, that it didn't matter how much we sinned. John reacted with disgust. But many in his church were attracted to this teaching. It seemed logical -- if my sin doesn't keep me from God, then it must not matter, right?
So I believe John wrote this homily as a direct address to this problem. In it John points out, the problem with this view is, it makes sin out to be nothing -- so you're not really sinning. But John pointed out, Jesus came to put an end to sin. ( 1 Jn 3:5) It would make no sense if Jesus wasn't at this very time accomplishing what He set out to do. Jesus is indeed in the process of ending sin. Yet we see we have sin, and we'd be lying to say we don't sin (1 Jn 1:8-10). We're in the process with Jesus. We still sin -- yet by His work and His Spirit we are also putting an end to sin.
John went further, so that people could see who was causing them problems by their teaching.
How do you identify true teachers? They agree Jesus came in the flesh. They don't persist in sin, but they struggle to leave it behind. They never really do lose it all, though, and they tell the truth about their own sins, confessing them and receiving forgiveness. And even the mature believers, they love the brothers -- babies in Christ as well as the older people. They don't act superior to them as if they have something special that the newbies don't. For all of us have that One Part that is so important. We have Christ.
If you read John carefully, where the word "sin" in the present tense is understood to be "continue sinning", you'll see what John is getting at.
It wouldn't be an oversight in Greek. It'd only be an oversight of the translator in not taking the Greek tense into account.The reason John did not write "continue sinning" is because he did not mean to. It is not an accident or oversight.
John doesn't allow this:The seed of God CANNOT sin. That is, your new born again nature. And it does not nor cannot sin. It is made new and alive by the Holy Spirit.
You still have your soul, old man, which needs to be crucified.
need answers....people have told me that as christians we cannot sin. in first john
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