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1 | does this mean we aren't born of God. | 1 John 3:9 | Elice Fox | 56862 | ||
is this verse for baby Christian or a mature one. | ||||||
2 | does this mean we aren't born of God. | 1 John 3:9 | kalos | 56864 | ||
Elice Fox: We know what the Bible means by what it says. May I suggest that you prayerfully and carefully read the verse in context several times, especially in the Amplified Bible (provided below)? After you have done so, if you still have questions as to the meaning of this verse or to whom it applies, someone here on the Forum will be glad to help you. Grace to you, kalos ------------- Those who have been born from God don't live sinful lives. What God has said lives in them, and they can't live sinful lives. They have been born from God. (1 John 3:9 GOD'S WORD Translation) No one born (begotten) of God [deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin, for God’s nature abides in him [His principle of life, the divine sperm, remains permanently within him]; and he cannot practice sinning because he is born (begotten) of God. 1 John 3:9 (Amplified) ------------- 1 John 3:6-10 (Amplified) 6 No one who abides in Him [who lives and remains in communion with and in obedience to Him—deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] commits (practices) sin. No one who [habitually] sins has either seen or known Him [recognized, perceived, or understood Him, or has had an experiential acquaintance with Him]. 7 Boys (lads), let no one deceive and lead you astray. He who practices righteousness [who is upright, conforming to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action, living a consistently conscientious life] is righteous, even as He is righteous. 8 [But] he who commits sin [who practices evildoing] is of the devil [takes his character from the evil one], for the devil has sinned (violated the divine law) from the beginning. The reason the Son of God was made manifest (visible) was to undo (destroy, loosen, and dissolve) the works the devil [has done]. 9 No one born (begotten) of God [deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin, for God’s nature abides in him [His principle of life, the divine sperm, remains permanently within him]; and he cannot practice sinning because he is born (begotten) of God. 10 By this it is made clear who take their nature from God and are His children and who take their nature from the devil and are his children: no one who does not practice righteousness [who does not conform to God’s will in purpose, thought, and action] is of God; neither is anyone who does not love his brother (his fellow believer in Christ). |
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3 | does this mean we aren't born of God. | 1 John 3:9 | New Creature | 56891 | ||
Dear Elice; Here is an excerpt from Spiros Zodhiates commentary on the Epistle of 1 John 3:9 Who ever has been born of God does not practice sin, for His seed abides in him and he cannot be habitually sinning, because he has been born of God. This verse starts with (pas - 3956), whoever or every one. It refers not only to one individual, but to every individual within the group of all those who have been born of God: "whoever has been born (ho ge-gennemenos) of God." (See also 1 John 2:29; 3:3 (twice), 9; 4:7; 5:1 (thrice), 4, 18 (twice). Ho gegennemenos is a participal noun with the definite article ho (3588), the one; gegennemenos, the perfect participle passive singular of gennao (1080), to beget or bear. Thus we have one who has been born of God and is now His child, indicating a specific time when the new birth (John 3:1-12) occurred which resulted in the possession of eternal life (John 3:16). John uses the perfect tense consistently when indicating those who were born of God and continue to be in Him (2:29; 3:9; 4:7; 5:1,4,18). God does not give birth to children and then abandon them. In 1 John 5:1 we find gegennetai, has been born, the perfect third person singular, in the expression, "Whoever (pas) believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God." And the verse continues, "and whosoever (pas) loves Him who gave birth (ton gegennemenon, the perfect participle passive of (gennao)." When it comes to God who gives birth to the believer, it is the aorist active that is used, gennesanta, Him who begot or gave birth to, which indicates the importance of the actual giving of life to everyone who believes and loves. The stress in 1 John 3:9 is on the believer who was born of God and now possesses the life of God. He is a child of God. The one who has been born of God does not (ou (3756), the absolute not) practice sin (poiei, the present indicative of poieo (4160), to practice, do habitually, hamartian, the accusative of hamartia (266) without the definite article, indicating sin of any kind). This is a statement of fact. A born- again believer has God's Spirit in him and does not habitually sin. He is asked not to sin. He simply does not. Why? Because God's seed (sperma (4690), sperm, a seed or germ of the divine life) abides in him (menei, the present indicative of meno (3306), to remain, abide, a favorite word in the epistles of John (1 John 2:6,10,14,17,19,24 (thrice), 27 (twice), 28; 3:6,9,14,15,17,24 (twice); 4:12,13,15,16 (twice); 2 John 1:2,9 (twice). It is the Holy Spirit in the believer who abhors sin and does not permit him to engage in habitual sin. Then John goes one step further. "And he cannot be habitually sinning." Here we have the absolute negative ou, not, and dunatai, the present indicative of dunamai (1410), to be able; thus he cannot be sinning because he is born of God, and God's Spirit indwells him (see 2 Pet. 1:4). Regrettably, the believer may fall into sin. 1 John 2:1 states, "and if one were to fall into sin (hamarte)." The verb is the subjunctive aorist which means the falling into an occasional sin for which there is confession (1 John 1:9) and forgiveness. A person who sins habitually without a sense of conviction and repentance cannot claim to have the Holy Spirit within him, and he who has Him cannot sin habitually. The two states are mutually exclusive. The reason for the inability to habitually sin is that he has been born (gegennetai, the perfect indicative passive of gennao) of God. From Spiros Zodhiates Th.d (pages 183-185 of the Exegetical Commentary Series - The Epistles of John) - ISBN 0-89957-107-7 |
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