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1 | Is iT possible to live without sin? | Rom 6:2 | Sir Pent | 24097 | ||
Clarification ................................... Dear Joe, I would like to respond to several of your points. As for Lanny's true meaning, I'll leave that to him to clear up. As for Christ being the only person who lived a completely sinless life, I completely agree with you. Just because I believe that a person can stop sinning does not at all mean that I think that they never sinned before that. All have sinned at some point in their life, and therefore all need Christ's forgiveness. As for our ability to stop sinning cheapening Christs sinless life, I disagree with the statement and the implication. I disagree with the statement because once again Christ is the only person to live His ENTIRE life without sin, and that can't be cheapened by anything. I disagree with the implication that we can't start living lives without sin because Christ is so different than us. We have the same Spirit in us that was in Christ Jesus, and Jesus said that we would do greater things than Him. Finally, as for "no such thing as unknown sins", what would you call the examples that I gave? The person is definately committing an act that is against the known will of God, however, they are not doing it intentionally. What do you call that? |
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2 | Is iT possible to live without sin? | Rom 6:2 | Reformer Joe | 24103 | ||
Not sin, because volition is not there. If a single woman is raped, I would not call it fornication, either. There has to be a moral weakness/willfulness present in order for the action in which we participate to be called sin. You wrote: "I disagree with the implication that we can't start living lives without sin because Christ is so different than us. We have the same Spirit in us that was in Christ Jesus, and Jesus said that we would do greater things than Him." The first sentence proves my point I made earlier. To say we are sinless at this point is to say that we are not-so-different from Christ in his behavior. That is simply false. As for your second sentence, which verse are you citing, so that we can take a closer look at what Jesus actually said and to whom? --Joe! |
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