Are the Nazarene stuck in Romans 1 like the Pentecostal are stuck in Acts? Regardless, there are no requirements that a man must meet in order for God to change the heart, lift the veil and give them new life. No man is free. He is either a slave to sin, or a slave to righteousness and he will only act according to his nature. If people are not born in sin, how they can be held accountable for debt owed to God? Why would Christ had need to die for those who are not sinners? If people were not born in sin then there would be the possibility that they may NEVER sin. As far as I know, Christ is the only one to have lived sinless. Man and his control is fleeting in comparison to God. Why pray if he can just do it himself? Why look to God, if he has no need of Him? If you don't like the fact that God is sovereign in ALL things, I can't fault you there but you may as well accept it. What YOU say comes from your mind bent on twisted ideas concerning salvation.
My views on soteriology, minus my position on the Law of Moses, were the unanimous position of the entire Christian community pre-Nicea. Your views are the novel twisted ideas.
It is just that Romans 1 decimates you. And confirms what people already know deep down to be true unless they suppress the truth and sear their God-given conscience.
O how horrible it would be if anyone other than Christ could live without sin! I'm sure God would just hate that seeing how he constantly complains in Scripture about how he hates sin and expresses strong emotional desire for people to stop it.
Even angels without any sinful flesh chose to sin, sir. But to this day most of the angels have not sinned. People are not compelled to become sinners. Maybe Enoch and Elijah didn't sin, at the very least in such a way as to be deserving of the Lake of Fire, and maybe that is why they were chosen to be taken to heaven to not see death to be the two witnesses for the Last Days.
Nobody here is saying that we can actually be exactly righteous as God. BUT Christ did tell us to be perfect as our Father in heaven is, and there is nothing in the context of that verse which implies it is impossible and is a hinted meaning to "Christ's imputed righteousness" but is clearly talking about doing what Christ has commanded in the surrounding context and going beyond that mediocre law-keeping of the scribes and pharisees.
And again the fallacy that if what I'm saying is true it means we don't need God and can do without him.
And in your position even after you have supposedly become a slave of righteousness through conversion in reality you are not but are still the slave of sin till you die and go to heaven and lose your free will by becoming this angelic being, even though even angels sinned. Totally contradictory.
Your views were concocted by pervertedly minded men that came way later in the Christian era who were far removed from the Apostles and some couldn't even read the NT in Greek, like Augustine.
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