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1 | Two Natures or One? | Rom 6:6 | Nevvvvine | 209938 | ||
Hi again Tim:: Thank you for the welcome I guess I could probably call this my Part-1 (you say) 1 John 3:9. This is the only verse in all of the Bible that seems to say that it is impossible for a Christian to sin. That fact alone makes it quite unusual. (answer) The fact it "IS" the only one, making it unique to the rest of the religious canon. That should make us ask the question all the more. Why is it here, what does it mean to us as christians, how does it fit with the rest of the teachings in the Bible? Instead we have automatically discounted it, based on our Doctrines, Dogmas, Traditions, Rituals. That kind of action on our part, would turn us into the equivalent of a 21st. Century Pharisee. (you say) Does it really mean what it appears to say? (answer) Well I'm here to tell you, "it sure does". (you say) Thus, it would appear that sin is a possibility for a Christian even as obedience is a possibility. (answer) John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, (and shall not come into condemnation;) ( but is passed from death unto life.) Rom. 8:1 There is therefore now (no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,) (who walk not after the flesh,) (but after the Spirit.) "Why?" you might ask. Rom. 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world:) (but sin is not imputed when there is no law.) Rom. 6:2,11 God forbid. (How shall we, that are dead to sin,) (live any longer therein?) (Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin,) (but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.) Rom. 6:4 (Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death:) (that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father,) (even so "we" also should walk in newness of life.) The point you are failing to see is very simple. Upon the event of our baptism, our identifying with Christ by dying to the flesh, we are resurrected with Christ, this is the point of our regeneration, in newness of life. As spoken of in Rom. 6:4 This is the New birth, Born Again. Newness of life, New Creation, means just that, we have truly become a Peculiar People. We are in the flesh, (But we are dead to the Flesh) We are in the flesh, (But we are alive to the Spirit) This is not something we choose to do, this is something God has done for us, through the sacrifice of Jesus. Our flesh will still go through the motions of sin (Rom. 5:13 above) I have to split part 1 and make a part 2 Nevvvvine |
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2 | Two Natures or One? | Rom 6:6 | Nevvvvine | 209939 | ||
Hi Tim This is the Part 2 so you will have to go down to read part 1 sorry Rom. 7:15 (For that which I do) (I allow not:) (for what I would,) (that do I not;) (but what I hate,) (that do I.) Rom. 7:24,25 O wretched man that I am! (who shall deliver me from the body of this death?) I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. (So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God;) (but with the flesh the law of sin.) Paul in this description is calling himself the wretched man, as the example for us in order for every man that call them selves Christian, to be able to understand the Grace of God, and the Power to be found in this Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, for us who believe. John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, (ye shall be free indeed.) 1 Cor. 6:12 (All things are lawful unto me,) (but all things are not expedient:) (all things are lawful for me,) (but I will not be brought under the power of any.) 1 Cor. 10:23 (All things are lawful for me,) (but all things are not expedient:) (all things are lawful for me,) (but all things edify not.) Eph. 2:1-6 (you say) Paul, in Galatians 5, Romans 6, and Romans 8, deals with our need to walk according to the Spirit so that we will not gratify the desires of the flesh. So, evidently, it is possible for a Christian to sin. (answer) Rom. 8:7 Because (the carnal mind is enmity against God:) (for it is not subject to the law of God,) neither indeed can be.) Gal. 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: (nevertheless I live;) (yet not I, but Christ liveth in me:) (and the life which I now live in the flesh) (I live by the faith of the Son of God,) who loved me, and gave himself for me. Gal. 5:24,25 And they that are Christ's (have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.) (If we live in the Spirit,) (let us also walk in the Spirit.) Rom. 6:11 Likewise (reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin,) (but alive unto God) through Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 Cor. 15:48,49 (As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy:) and (as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.) And (as we have borne the image of the earthy,) (we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.) John 3:6 (That which is born of the flesh is flesh;) and (that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.) It is all done for us, we do not have to wait to die before we can gain this freedom, it has already been provided for us, we just have to acknowledge it now. I guess that is a lot to absorb for now. Your brother in Christ Nevvvvine |
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