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1 | You didn't "go on sinning"? | John 3:16 | welldigger | 65028 | ||
Are you saying that you didn't "go on sinning" when you continued to commit sins even though you knew better? Also, I'm not saying that that scripture isn't talking about forsaking the truth, rejecting Christ. It is based on what's after the 26th verse, but God is defining turning from the truth to be to "sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth" (or knowing better). |
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2 | You didn't "go on sinning"? | John 3:16 | Searcher56 | 65066 | ||
Welldigger, this thread must stop, now ... I agree that you appear to try to dig EdB in a hole ... and you are not reading what he says carefully. Searcher |
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3 | You didn't "go on sinning"? | John 3:16 | welldigger | 65101 | ||
I ask EdB these things and bring these scriptures to his attention because God showed me something awhile back that I had never seen before. I believed very similarly to the way you all do now. But He showed me that what I was believing was a lie, and then He showed me the truth. Please consider these things, because if you see the same things He showed me, then I want you to allow Him to show you the rest of what He showed me. It’s truly priceless. I am just asking EdB questions. If his answers to those questions dig a hole, is that my fault? God says plainly in Hebrews 10:26 that He does not forgive sins committed when you know better. EdB said that he has committed such sins. Where does that leave EdB? In a hole? Did I write the scriptures? Did I make EdB commit sin when he knew better? If I walk by and EdB is in a hole, but doesn't know it, does EdB not want to know he is in a hole??? If EdB is walking toward a cliff, but doesn't know it, does EdB not want to be alerted to that fact? God tells me that if I see a “sword coming”, I’m supposed to “blow the trumpet”. And if I don’t, that MY soul will be in jeopardy: Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But IF THE WATCHMAN SEE THE SWORD COME, AND BLOW NOT THE TRUMPET, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but HIS BLOOD WILL I REQUIRE AT THE WATCHMAN'S HAND. (Ezekiel 33:2-6) EdB said "We should have a desire to draw nearer to God". When is it that EdB was planning on doing that? When is it that EdB was planning on ceasing from committing sin? When is EdB planning to "abstain from things that aren't" "righteousness" and "holiness"? EdB said "Does that mean we will never sin, no..." Evaluate for yourself, does that agree with these scriptures? WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST IS BORN OF GOD: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. (1 John 5:1) 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. (1 John 3:9) |
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4 | Sinless perfectionism? | John 3:16 | John Reformed | 65111 | ||
Dear Welldigger, I'm curious. Are you saying that you have discovered a way to live in perfect obedience to the Law? John |
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5 | Sinless perfectionism? | John 3:16 | welldigger | 65287 | ||
Yes, but I really didn't "discover it", God showed it to me. I know it SOUNDS crazy, but you have to let Him show you in the scriptures FIRST and then you make that call yourself. It's just like Nicodemus said: Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,) DOTH OUR LAW JUDGE ANY MAN, BEFORE IT HEAR HIM, AND KNOW WHAT HE DOETH? They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet. And every man went unto his own house. (John 7:45-53) Were they wrong about no prophet being fortold to come out of Galilee? What would have been the difference if they just had been willing to hear the Word (Jesus), and THEN judge whether or not He was true? All that is required is that someone will be honest with themselves and with God and be willing to reason with God in the scriptures. If they are willing, He will show them by studying the scriptures with a person who He has already shown (Acts 8 - Philip and the eunuch). I am nothing, He is everything. He has shown me, and if you want Him to show you, all you have to do is be honest and believe what God says plainly in the scriptures as we study them together. There is only one Way, one faith, one belief about Jesus that does NOT disagree with any of the witness from God about Jesus, the scriptures. Any belief that DOES disagree with one or more scriptures cannot be the truth from God, because God cannot lie. Let me know if you are willing to hear Him. |
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6 | Sinless perfectionism? | John 3:16 | John Reformed | 65295 | ||
Dear Welldigger, You said: "Any belief that DOES disagree with one or more scriptures cannot be the truth from God, because God cannot lie. Let me know if you are willing to hear Him." Rom 7:25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin. 1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. I am afraid that you have been decieved. If it were possible to be saved by keeping the Law to perfection, Christ need not have come in the first place. John |
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7 | Sinless perfectionism? | John 3:16 | welldigger | 65375 | ||
I appreciate your concern. It is good to ask questions about this, so He can show us the answers. I had to do the same, before He made me to understand, as we all do. With regard to 1 John 1:8, I am not saying that I do not have any sin, I did commit many many sins in the past, when I was in ignorance of what God would be pleased with. Thank God, Jesus paid for them by the sacrifice of Himself, according to the scriptures: By the which will we are sanctified **THROUGH THE OFFERING OF THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST** once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after **HE HAD OFFERED ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS** for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; (Hebrews 10:10-12) Only by the mercy of God, those sins are covered by the righteousness of Jesus, the blood of Jesus according to what the scriptures say: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom **WE HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD, EVEN THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS**: (Colossians 1:13-14) Those past sins are redeemed and covered by His blood, by His righteousness, by His sacrifice, so that God will never "see" those any more. However, they are redeemed by promise. That is, the Holy Spirit reveals the knowledge of the PROMISE from God that, because of the sacrifice of Jesus, He will not hold us accountable for those past sins at the end of the world. They do remain there, covered, until the actual redemption of the purchased possession at the end of this world: In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, YE WERE SEALED WITH THAT HOLY SPIRIT ***OF PROMISE***, ***WHICH IS THE EARNEST [[guarantee from God]] OF OUR INHERITANCE UNTIL THE REDEMPTION OF THE PURCHASED POSSESSION***, unto the praise of his glory. (Ephesians 1:13-14) And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed ***UNTO THE DAY OF REDEMPTION***. (Ephesians 4:30) And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; **FOR YOUR REDEMPTION DRAWETH NIGH.** (Luke 21:27-28) But that's the thing, God cannot lie, so His promise is sure, and we just have to believe His promise, believe Him. If we have that faith toward God, that faith will save our soul from hell, because He is faithful that promised. It's a yes and no with God (as are almost all things from Him). So, the actual redemption from God will be at the end of the world, but we already have redemption in the following sense: God already did the work, and promised to us that redemption at the end of the world, and God cannot lie. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, ***WAITING FOR THE ADOPTION, TO WIT, THE REDEMPTION OF OUR BODY.*** FOR WE ARE SAVED BY HOPE: BUT HOPE THAT IS SEEN IS NOT HOPE: FOR WHAT A MAN SEETH, WHY DOTH HE YET HOPE FOR? BUT IF WE HOPE FOR THAT WE SEE NOT, THEN DO WE WITH PATIENCE WAIT FOR IT. (Romans 8:23-25) So, yes, we already have redemption, in that, He already paid the payment that covered our pasts sins committed when we were “in ignorance”. And He makes known to us the promise of the actual redemption to come, by the Holy Spirit, and if one believes that promise from God, then, by faith, that person is already redeemed (because God cannot lie). But also, no, we won’t actually be redeemed until the end of the world. |
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