Here you are from the original post. I cannot see where you addressed the
specific points raised. Please respond by copy pasting your response to the
specific points raised:
By stating you are not perfect, you must be aware you break Gods laws/commit sin. if you were sinning in ignorance you would not know you weren't perfect would you. For anyone who never commits sin is perfect are they not, for they must perfectly obey the entire law of God. Therefore, you must commit knowing sin, and, according to what you wrote, knowing sin brings condemnation under the law. it also means we do not have the Holy Spirit nor are you therefore walking after the Spirit. So you are making very conflicting statements once we dig into them I'm afraid.
But lets consider your idea of committing unknown sin. We can commit sin/break Gods laws without being convicted we are doing so.
Who is the convictor of sin in the believers life? It is the Holy Spirit as I hope you would agree(eg
John 16:8-11) Therefore, anyone who claims to commit sin without conviction they are sinning would, it stands to reason be living a life where the Holy Spirit does not have the dominance in their life he should have, to put it mildly. Your thoughts on this do bear out my experience in an SDA church I went to for a couple of months to please a friend. In the church. many relentlessly stated: you must obey the TC.
Yet, in that church many people were casually taking the Lords name in vain, some even laughing as they did so, apparently unaware they were committing sin. They must have believed, as you appear to believe, you can commit unknowing sin. As I previously told you, in no other church I have ever been to have I heard anyone casually taking the Lords name in vain as I often heard in that SDA church. So from practical experience with them, and from what you write, it seems the average sda member is far less convicted of sin in their lives than in any other church I have personally belonged to. For every single christian I know
would instinctively know they should not take the Lords name in vain, and
would be aware they sinned by doing so.
Of course, this reflects the core of the covenant the Christian is under. the law God requires them to follow is written in their minds and placed on their hearts. And what is in your mind, you in your mind must know, obviously. So how come SDA seem to accept they can sin unknowingly?
I'm just being honest here, nothing more. It was when I saw the casual taking of the Lords name in vain in that SDA church, I realised something was radically wrong.
I have said nothing that you have said above. Your answered questions from the posts you would not look to from
Post 629 and
Post # 639 as mentioned earlier......
Your question...............
Do you claim to be ignorant of any of Gods laws? I'm sure you must answer no to that. Therefore if you commit sin you must commit knowing sin.
The answer you chose not to see...........
Well this is a good question. My answer would be yes and no. I say this because yes I know God's Law (10 commandments) but everyday I am growing in grace so I do not perfectly know the depth of God's Law. This is called growing in grace (
1 Peter 2:1-21;
Ephesians 4:15;
2 Peter 1:2-12;
2 Peter 3:18;
1 Corinthians 13:9-13)
Your question...............
So the next question is: Do you ever commit any sin? You are not going to answer that are you!!
The answer you chose not to see...........
Without Jesus all I can do is sin because I am a sinner. I am blind, deaf, lame, poor and naked. Sick in sin and in need of a physician. He is my Physician because I am sick in sin and cannot heal myself. He changes my filthy rags for his white robe of righteousness which he swapped for my filthy rags and by his stripes I am healed. Now I walk in him by faith and not by sight because I am blind. He is in me and His Spirit guides my steps. I am growing in grace and not yet perfect but I am perfect in him as I believe and follow his Word. Now he strengthens me to do all things. I was a servant to sin now he sets me free to love him because he first loved me.
Then based on my responses to your question answered above I said (not what you said) I responded with.......
Jesus says; Now you are
CLEAN THROUGH THE WORD which I have spoken unto you.
ABIDE IN ME <the Word>, and I IN YOU. As the branch cannot
BEAR FRUIT of itself, except it abide in the vine;
NO MORE CAN YOU, except you
ABIDE IN ME. I am the vine, ye are the branches:
HE THAT ABIDES IN ME AND I IN HIM, the same brings forth much
FRUIT: for
WITHOUT ME <the Word> YOU CAN DO NOTHING. If a man
ABIDE NOT IN ME <the Word>, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye
ABIDE IN ME <the Word>, and
MY WORDS ABIDE IN YOU, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified,
THAT YOU BARE MUCH FRUIT; SO SHALL YOU BE MY DISCIPLES. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
IF YOU KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, YOU SHALL ABIDE IN MY LOVE; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love (
John 15:3-10).
This is the same as ............
WALK IN THE SPIRIT and you shall
NOT FULFILL THE LUSTS OF THE FLESH (
Galatians 5:16: 25;
Romans 8:1-4; 14)
The keys .........
It is the
SPIRIT that quickens; the flesh profits nothing:
THE WORDS THAT I SPEAK UNTO YOU THEY ARE SPIRIT AND THEY ARE LIFE (
John 6:63)
You must be born again to know God's power to be free from sin and bare fruit.........
Whosoever
ABIDES IN HIM SINS NOT: < this is the same as John 15:3-10 above> WHOSOEVER SINS <the fruit> hath not seen him, neither known him
<not abiding in him>.
Little children,
LET KNOW MAN DECEIVE YOU: HE THAT DOES RIGHTEOUSNESS IS RIGHTEOUS, EVEN AS HE IS RIGHTEOUS. HE THAT COMMITS SIN IS OF THE DEVIL; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD DOES NOT COMMIT SIN; <why?> FOR HIS SEED REMAINS IN HIM: <What does the seed represent?; Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God - Luke 8:11> and
HE CANNOT SIN BECAUSE HE IS BORN OF GOD <through faith in God's word>. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother (
1 John 3:6-10)
We are born again by faith in God's Word. Faith is the victory......
BEING BORN AGAIN, not of corruptible
SEED, but of incorruptible,
BY THE WORD OF GOD, which lives and
ABIDES FOREVER (
1 Peter 1:23).
Faith is the victory...........
For whatsoever is
BORN OF GOD OVERCOMES THE WORLD: and
THIS IS THE VICTORY THAT OVERCOMES THE WORLD, EVEN OUR FAITH (
1 John 5:4).
Let's put it all together.................
It is only through faith by believing and following the word of God that we have victory over sin and know the power of God unto salvation. God's Word is God's power (
Jude 1:24;
Romans 1:16;
2 Corinthians 6:7;
1 Peter 1:5) The power of God is according to the Spirit of holiness (
Romans 1:4). If we do not know God's Word we do not know his power (
Matthew 22:29) If we are sinning we do not know him (
1 John 3:6). If we break one of God's commandments we stand guilty before God of breaking all of them (
James 2:8-12). Jesus says if we follow the teachings and traditions of man over the Word of God we are not following God (
Matthew 15:3-9) Sunday worship is a teaching and tradition of man that breaks the commandments of God. If we have unrepentant known sin in our lives we do not know God and are not following him...
Well there you go, your questions were indeed answered from
Post 629 and
Post # 639 as mentioned earlier......