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The reborn's flesh is of God, of His seed, and incapable of bearing evil fruit. (1 John 3:9)No one who Loves God believes their flesh is as good as God’s.
A seared conscience can be the only cause of such a claim... to fleshly Righteousness that is sinlessly perfect.
The reborn's flesh is of God, of His seed, and incapable of bearing evil fruit. (1 John 3:9)
Yep, among other things.The evil fruit is lies, lack of mercy, back biting, Pride, deciept!
But those in Him aren't?Only God is GOOD!
No one (Jesus doesn't count) has ever been holy, not from Adam down to the present. We're saved in SPITE of our unrighteousness. We're cloaked in the righteousness of Christ: We have no righteousness of our own. We are wholly incapable of following the Commandments, whether those of Moses or of Christ. That's why we need a savior If we could achieve salvation by obeying the Law, we would have no need of Christ.God is Holy, we are not.
God is our atonement... we are not!
That's the story of life without being reborn.No one (Jesus doesn't count) has ever been holy, not from Adam down to the present. We're saved in SPITE of our unrighteousness. We're cloaked in the righteousness of Christ: We have no righteousness of our own. We are wholly incapable of following the Commandments, whether those of Moses or of Christ. That's why we need a savior If we could achieve salvation by obeying the Law, we would have no need of Christ.
No one (Jesus doesn't count) has ever been holy, not from Adam down to the present. We're saved in SPITE of our unrighteousness. We're cloaked in the righteousness of Christ: We have no righteousness of our own. We are wholly incapable of following the Commandments, whether those of Moses or of Christ. That's why we need a savior If we could achieve salvation by obeying the Law, we would have no need of Christ.
That's the story of life without being reborn.
That's the story of life even after being reborn.That's the story of life without being reborn.
The truth is, even after being born again, a Christian will still sin every second of every day for the rest of their lives, with every breath they take. Anything that isn't done out of pure love for God is a damnable sin. Every breath a Christian takes is a damnable sin! No one not named Jesus Christ has EVER been able to do anything out of a pure love of God. The difference is that a Christian has his damnable sins cloaked in the righteousness of Christ, while a non-believer does not. Our sin is covered by Christ like a dungheap is covered by snow.
It seems you can see that sanctification means "cleanse", and the verse above shows it was already done.
I never said anything about giving yourself permission in committing willful sexual sin or weaning yourself off of committing willful sexual sin gradually or turning the grace of God into licentiousness. That is a straw man argument.
Those who believe they live a sinless, without fault or defect, flawless, absolute perfect life 100% of the time (exactly as Jesus lived) are suffering from a terminal case of self righteousness. (1 John 1:8-10)God is Holy, we are not.
God is our atonement... we are not!
Those who believe they live a sinless, without fault or defect, flawless, absolute perfect life 100% of the time (exactly as Jesus lived) are suffering from a terminal case of self righteousness. (1 John 1:8-10)
God can save any soul from any sin under the Sun... except for that one!
To be blunt.
Yes, who needs Jesus to cleanse ALL your sin, when you have no sin to begin with.
1 John 1:8 - self righteous man
1 John 1:9 - how to truly be made righteous - Jesus
Jesus changes us from slaves of sin to slaves of righteousness; and sons, not sinners. John 8:34-36; Romans 6. The misinterpretation of John in these verses has been used for centuries by Reformationists to proclaim the lie that we will always be sinners - not heirs of God. This demeans the power of the blood shed by Jesus. Don't let the author of lies win. Pluck this lie from your minds, and reckon in your mind that you are dead to sin, and walk in this truth.
cc: @Danthemailman
Paul also introduced sin, weakness, into the Body of Christ, but the function of the Body is to be the atonement, kaporeth, the sin covering!Amen to that.
There are no holy sinners.
Pick a team!
You can't play both sides of the net.
"Considered clean"?
Then you have introduced sin into the body of Christ.
Oh, my “Old Man” is indeed buried... but to be sincere... he stinks so bad in the decomposition... I know my place.
John wasn’t a reformer. The verse is in direct accusative, audience intended present tense. John opens his message up with that in mind.
How is that verse false?
John reiterates the same message in 1 John 1:10
He states it twice... (1 John 1:8-10) ..the repentance is emphasized and encapsulated in between the perpetual need to acknowledge that we still have sin. It is a call to perpetual repentance to be freed from sin.
It is a permanent “Change Of Mind”, that no longer believes in self sufficiency.
How is it false?
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