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1 | verse explains nonChrist knowing savior | 2 Cor 5:15 | mark d seyler | 178630 | ||
Hi Paul, As far as I can tell from reading the Bible, sin is death, and sin is what Jesus died to save us from. Sin is not part of the path to knowing God. I do not consider the line of thinking which you are presenting to resemble any true Biblical concept, and in fact, seems to directly fly in the face of much that is written. The sinner has not "gained vital information", the sinner is dead. Unless Jesus saves that sinner, the sinner remains dead. When Jesus saves a sinner, He tells them, "leave your sin, and do not return to it. Go and sin no more." Love in Christ, Mark |
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2 | verse explains nonChrist knowing savior | 2 Cor 5:15 | brother paul | 178637 | ||
Dear Mark, Are we not all sinners? I am the greatest, like the apostle Paul, and sin brings death. But to die is gain. (Phill 1:21) In death is the resurrection, indeed we have to be dead to ourselves before we can be resurrested. Jesus came to teach us how to die, death to self. We die daily. The process of God. Yes, 'sin no more', but that 'sin' can be offending the 'least of these. my brothers'. and that 'sin' can be anything that would offend the most delicate of misguided conscience. This enters an area outside of law, we are now talking about their individual 'rights and wrongs'. the concept goes higher. It no longer rests on rules but love and understanding. This is the love of Christ, it goes deeper than orthodox legalism, it is now talking about love. This is empathy. coming to where a person is, like the good samaritan who met the man where he was. Not like the preists who passed by, because they walked in judgment and legalism. it is not that simple, I would love the body of Christ to start searching, raise the questions that the Holy Spirit might bring in us into all truth. Yours and His Paul |
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3 | verse explains nonChrist knowing savior | 2 Cor 5:15 | mark d seyler | 178669 | ||
Hi Paul, Rather than just give us your own claims, please share with us those Scriptures that teach these things. I don't beleive they exist. The Bible says: Eph 2:1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, Eph 2:2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Eph 2:3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. Eph 2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, Eph 2:5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), You were dead, but God has made you alive. You say that in death is the resurrection, yes that's true, but only for the redeemed. Those who have not been redeemed, who are still facing the result of their sin, are lost, there is no resurrection for them, only eternal death. Sin is not to be tolerated, condoned, looked on as good, or any such thing. The least sin you can imagine was sufficiant to separate you, or me, from God forever. But He died to pay for it, so that we might live. I will never waver from that truth. Love in Christ, Mark |
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4 | verse explains nonChrist knowing savior | 2 Cor 5:15 | DocTrinsograce | 178672 | ||
Amen... well said, Brother Mark. Thank you! A solidly, Scripturally grounded understanding of Hamartiology is as important as a solidly, Scripturally grounded understanding of Soteriology. By God's grace we will, indeed, stand firm on these truths without wavering. |
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