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I agree with you that a believer can be blameless at a certain point of time, but always, I doubt it. Are we sure the first numbered psalms were written before the "later" ones? Anyhow, didn't David sin in other ways, it was not only the Bathsheba incident, was it?
I believe it is talking about from the point of him being a converted believer as a child to the time he wrote that Psalm. I do not believe he wrote this after he murdered and committed adultery. That would send the wrong message to believers today. It would mean we can murder, and commit adultery and yet be blameless.
You said:I agree to that. But what does it take? Only one sin? If so I lost my salvation the first week I was saved, because I disobeyed God, shamefully I might add.
It takes only one mortal sin to be separated from God, unless we confess of such a sin and forsake it (i.e. we need to battle against mortal sin in overcoming it instead of justifying it).
You said:There have been so many times I have read scripture and seen something, to at a later time find something I've missed that changes the whole meaning of the passage. So I don't just read what "it's says", but look for the deeper meaning, the purpose of each text. To be without blame or be righteous can mean different things. Not saying you are wrong, but I'm not convinced.
When Scripture tells us to be a certain way that is good, men's natural reaction is to defend that which is wrong and evil. They do not like certain verses in the Bible, so they simply change them. We are not talking about one isolated verse here, either (Whereby one could say that this word could mean something else). But there are three clear testimonies in Scripture about men of God who walked uprightly with God for a period of time in their life.
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