That is double speak if I have ever heard it Jason. On one had you say it is possible to stop sinning, on the other you say believers struggle with sin.
There is no contradiction. It is an issue of time. It takes time for some (not all) believers to overcome sin (and mature in the faith). Once they matured, then they have learned to overcome sin.
Actually, Eternal Security is a two fold message of contradiction.
In Eternal Security, one message says you are to be more Christ like and holy.
Yet, in Eternal Security, the other message says you can sin and still be saved (on some level) which runs contrary to being more Christ like.
You said:
You Do you not know that our flesh cannot please God?
When you read Romans 8:8, you have to read the context. The "flesh" is not only in reference to a sinful way of thinking (Romans 8:7) but it is also in reference to sinful deeds, too.
12 "Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit
do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." (Romans 8:12-13).
"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).
You said:
It is God's mercy that saves us, not our abilities.
Actually, we are saved by God's mercy, His sacrifice (blood), His resurrection, washing of regeneration of the Holy Ghost, and by Christ working in us (and not in any effort of our own power outside of God or Christ). Any good a genuine believer does is the work of God or Christ done through them because Jesus said you can do nothing without me (See John 15:5). For it's why the 24 elders cast their crowns down before Jesus.
You said:
Again Jason, if your doctrine is true...
Give me the list of men.
Again, you don't get it.
We are in the last days and things are darker.
As it was in the days of Noah so shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
You said:
BTW, Noah was saved by God's grace...read it.
In Christ
Daniel
Then why did God feel heart broken at the world for being so wicked?
What could they have done differently that could have made them right with God?
It is said that the global flood is an example to all who should live ungodly thereafter.
It was not example of OSAS (a sin and still be saved type doctrine).
The flood was an example of showing how ungodly living leads to destruction and death.
"By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith." (Hebrews 11:7).
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