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Your beliefs, since they are not Scriptural, are laughable. But really, it's quite sad. Especially since 1 Jn 1:8 DIRECTLY addresses your own claims. And refutes.
Sincerity and $2.10 will get you a cup of coffee. Nothing more. People have been sincerely wrong since Adam.
The reality is that you are the one not seeing what the Word clearly says.
Problem is, you've not defended your views from Scripture.
Remember what 1 Jn 1:8 says: those who claim sinless perfection (say they have no sin) have deceived themselves and the truth is not in them.
You push a theology of sinless perfection and defend it. So, that means you yourself must say that you have no sin.
Your view is self deceived and has no truth in it.
The charge of being "out of context" is an easy one to make against anything. However, since that is your charge, please prove it from the Scripture. The fact that the epistle "makes no mention...against sinless perfectionism" is immaterial. FACTS are FACTS.
Those who claim sinless perfection have deceived themselves and the truth is not in them.
Nope. Of course we are commanded to not sin. No one would argue that. But such a command does NOT teach or support the untruth of sinless perfection. Believers are simply NOT to sin. Period. However, just look at the REST of 1 Jn 2:1, which again refutes your notions:
"My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous"
OK, let's break this down:
the phrase "so that you MAY NOT sin" doesn't even suggest that one will cease from sin. And it's in the subjunctive mood, which is the mood of probability. There is a HUGE difference between "will not sin" and "may not sin".
Second, he continues with the statement, "and if anyone sins". Showing that this possibility is real and the solution is found in our Advocate, Jesus Christ. Given what he already wrote in ch 1, which was about fellowship with the Father and Son, and the issue of confession, the solution to our sin is to confess it. And we will be cleansed, NOT SAVED AGAIN.
So, 1 Jn 1:8 and 10 and 2:1 ALL refute the notions of sinless perfection. And Paul wrote in the PRESENT TENSE in Romans 7 about his own struggle with his sin nature.
And he also wrote that those who say they have no sin (sinless perfection) have deceived themselves and the truth is not in them. 1:8
That verse says nothing like what you claim here.
This makes no sense. John wrote 1 John so that believers "MAY NOT SIN". It wasn't a command.
Those who have deceived themselves and don't have the truth in them cannot understand much of God's Word.
I guess you'd put Paul in that silly category as well, huh. The FACT is that believers have 2 natures, a sin nature that came from Adam (Romans 5) and a new nature upon regeneration. And these natures are in CONFLICT with each other.
It seems to me that you have no idea that there is a spiritual battle within each believer.
A statement coming from one who has fulfilled 1 Jn 1:8. Self deceived and no truth in them.
I agee. And this does NOT support or prove sinless perfection. And Scripture refutes that in 1 Jn 1:8 and 10.
Again, I agree. And, again, this does NOT support or prove sinless perfection.
In 1 John 2:1, The word "may" is not in the King James (Which is the Bible that was used for hundreds of years before the Modern Translations came about). John says, "sin not." Jesus says, "sin no more." That means exactly what it says.
Do you believe you can stop sinning for 5 minutes? How about 1 hour? How about an entire day? Do you sin when you brush your teeth?
I say this because the OSAS proponent claims that 1 John 1:8 says that a believer will always have sin in their life.
Let me ask you. How do you tell the good guys from the bad guys when you turn on the news or watch a movie? Is it not by their actions that determines if they are a good guy or bad guy. Granted, in most cases, these are unbelievers, but the point is that we are aware of good and evil by what people do and not by any kind of belief alone. For a person can believe in Jesus but if they act like a Hitler and murder tons of people, I know that they are not of God.
Also, how can one live holy and also live in sin? Is that not a contradiction to you?
Anyways, God's people are known by how they live. They are a holy and separate people from the world.
For why on Earth do you think Jesus told those believers to depart from him in Matthew 7?
Do you not know that the whole point that is being made in that part of text is for the believer to do God's will?
For it says,
"And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it."
(Matthew 7:26-27).
"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 7:21).
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