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It's simple...it's okay if you refuse to answer it. I understand.You need to clarify the questions/question so I can answer. It was written a bit odd, and no biggie , but still...
How the standard for sin is lowered in order to make themselves acceptable before God.
So how do you explain this?
Who are God's bastard sons? How did they become bastards, never heard this theology before.
Also, God does not stop loving us and trying to teach us, even when we do not fall in line right away. Christ says that He is the good shepherd and when one of His sheep gets lost, He leaves the other 99 sheep and goes after the 1 lost one until He finds it and then brings it back.
Please explain you calling any of Christ's children bastards.
It's simple...it's okay if you refuse to answer it. I understand.
In Christ
Because I really don't think you and I are that far off.OK..Yes, to both, if indeed they are two questions, something you refuse to clarify.
Why do you ask?
So, in a recent discussion I came across the view that God does not demand perfection in the keeping of His commandments.
Anyone else feel that way?
TRAP!
God Bless!
Bondage!
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God Bless!
Perfection always needs to be defined; perfection needs a subject and a predicate; a marble statue could be (deemed) perfect but as a God it is lifeless.
How would one keep the Commandments perfectly; by standing still, hands in pockets, not doing 10 things? I am sure this is not what God requires. The range of things a person could be infinite and keeping the Commandments the range is restricted to infinity minus ten; each person will select a unique set from infinity. Perfection may be applied to what one does but not to what one does not do.
The Great Command covers commission and omission. Our love of neighbor a self, is a command; therefore require obedience (Christ did this perfectly on our behalf)
I do not believe your teachers have got it right. The great command is quoted from the OT; what Christ has done on our behalf is die in our place, shed His blood for the remission of sin; which is some of God's part in the covenant.
That God or Jesus has fulfilled the Law so that we do not need to is a paraphrase of or simile to Gen 3:1-5.
Genesis 3:1-5 (NKJV)
1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?"
2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden;
3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.' "
4 Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die.
5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
You should read that verse in context.Jesus says in Luke 6:40 that everyone who is perfect shall be as his master.
Clearly there is no doubt that this is talking about perfection in relation to action.
One could say the one that is desperate uses big bold blue text, mixed in with big bold red text.Sometimes certain people are really desperate to not see what God's Word plainly says.
They speak, and they may even appear to shout what they believe, but it is empty and hollow because there is no Word of God in their speech to back them up.
Jesus says be ye perfect as the Father is perfect.
God says in His Word be ye holy because I am holy.
Jesus says in Luke 6:40 that everyone who is perfect shall be as his master.
Clearly there is no doubt that this is talking about perfection in relation to action.
But if that is not enough.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 makes it even more obvious.
Abbreviated (or shortened), It says, "All Scripture is profitable... for instruction in righteousness...so that the man of God may be perfect unto every good work."
Still not enough?
Okay. James says,
"For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body" (James 3:2).
"Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." (2 Corinthians 7:1).
"Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight,through Jesus Christ;" (Hebrews 13:21).
"Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.” (Revelation 3:2).
There are more.
But hopefully this should suffice to crumble the doctrines of men.
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You should read that verse in context.
Luke 6:30-40
30“Give to everyone who asks of you, and whoever takes away what is yours, do not demand it back. 31“Treat others the same way you want them to treat you. 32“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 33“If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 34“If you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners in order to receive back the same amount. 35“But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men. 36“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
37“Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned. 38“Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.”
39And He also spoke a parable to them: “A blind man cannot guide a blind man, can he? Will they not both fall into a pit? 40“A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.
I think that can help us all see the context of that verse, not as you have used it, but in the way it was intended by God.
One could say the one that is desperate uses big bold blue text, mixed in with big bold red text.
But just quoting a phrase in a verse of scripture, does not mean it is in the correct context or that your mixed in explanation is correct.
That is why people always need to double-check on their own.
1 John 1:6, 1 John 1:8, and 1 John 1:10 are warnings to the brethren against the false gnostic belief that you can sin and still be saved. For John was writing to the brethren about those who were trying to seduce them (1 John 2:26). He that says he knows Him (Christ) and does not keep His commandments is a liar and the truth is not in them (1 John 2:4). 1 John 1:8 is a person denying sin's existence or that sin does not apply to them in Christ. It is saying if we say we have no sin (when we do sin) we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. It is not saying you will always be in sin. 1 John 1:8 is speaking in the present tense. Surely you are not sinning while you are knocked out unconcious. Surely you are not sinning every second of every hour of the day. John tells us in 1 John 2:1 to: "sin not." It would be pointless for him to tell us to not doing something that we would always be doing as a part of our present status of existence.
Jason0047 said:There is a difference between newer Christians who need to mature in the faith and put away their sins versus (vs.) Christians who have matured in the faith and overcome their sins. God chastens those who are willing to repent and change and reform. God does not chasten those who are bastard sons. The chastening of the Lord does not make any sense if there is no actual reform in the individual as it's intended goal. For example: A master lightly smacks or disciplines his dog when he poops on the carpet so as to get the dog to stop pooping. The master does not endless smack the dog without seeking a change in the dog's behavior. Now, imagine if the dog had an uncontrollable pooping problem (like you think man has in a way spiritually). Does it make sense for the owner of the dog to discipline his dog in this case? No. This dog is going to release brownie shaped treasures all over the carpet beyond it's own control. The dog needs medical care or it needs a new environment, etc. Punishing the dog for something that you know it cannot help to do does not make any sense.
I am not suggesting that Christians cannot sin. We all have free will. I am saying that once a believer matures in the faith, they will learn to overcome their sin by the power of God and His Word.
I believe Christians can sin. Those who justify sin and do not repent are not going to make it. Those who repent and forsake their sin and overcome their sin and this world will make it.
I agree. So I do not see why you appear to defend the idea that we will always sin as a believer in this life if sin is what separates us from God. I believe sin can separate a believer from God. This is not a new teaching in the Holy Scriptures.
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What's the distinction? Obedience can't be imperfect. Can one imperfectly NOT commit adultery?
You post "It is saying if we say we have no sin (when we do sin) we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. It is not saying you will always be in sin. 1 John 1:8 is speaking in the present tense."
I agree some with this.
1 John 3:9 "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God."
Both verbs "doth" and "sin" are present tense. It does not mean it is IMPOSSIBLE for the Christian to sin, but the Christian cannot continue (present tense) living in sin.
Paul said to the Corinthians "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." 1 Cor 6:9-11
Paul said "such were some of you" meaning they could not become and remain faithfully saved Christians while continuing in those sins mentioned. It does not mean it was impossible for those Corinthian Christians to sin for they did sin and in chapter after chapter of the first Corinthian epistle Paul was giving instructions to correct those sins.
You said:It appeared to me at first you were saying it was not possible for Christians to sin.
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