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1 | Is sinless perfection possible on earth? | 1 John 1:8 | EdB | 228633 | ||
You said sin has lost it power to condemn yet others have quoted scripture like 1 Cor 6:9,10 Ephesians 5:5,6 Galatians 5:19,20 allof which cite specific sin for condemnation. What has changed. | ||||||
2 | Is sinless perfection possible on earth? | 1 John 1:8 | Beja | 228638 | ||
EdB, It was I who quoted those passages in the very post you are responding to. And I explained how they fit in. Though I know you are responding to many posts so the mix up is understandable. In Christ, Beja |
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3 | Is sinless perfection possible on earth? | 1 John 1:8 | EdB | 228639 | ||
I think others also quoted them if not I'm sorry. In any case when we look at these verses appear to say various listed sins will cause a person to be eternal damnation. Yet Roman 6-8 says we are dead to sin, free from the penalty of the law, My question if we are still tempted, if we give into that temptation and sin and are condemned to eternal damnation what changed? I'm not being argumentative. But for years I have gave these answers as has proably every pastor ever asked the question. We throw it out and we expect the person asking the question to accept our answer and let it go. Romans 6-8 says we are free yet various other places still list the penalty of sin. Which is it are we free or not. Or have we not been looking at these passages and understandin what they say. I think it might be the latter and that is why I keep asking the question. How do you reconcile these verses? |
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4 | Is sinless perfection possible on earth? | 1 John 1:8 | Beja | 228643 | ||
EdB, I have explained it a few times. Let me try a more ground up approach. 1. All sin will be judged by God. That has always been the problem, sin and judgement from God upon sin. Nothing has changed there. 2. Christ died to pay the punishment for all those who believe upon him. That has always been the answer, nothing has changed. 3. All those who receive Christ has not merely received the benefits of his death, but the benefit of an ongoing union with him in life. 4. All those who enjoy this benefit will continually become more and more holy in practice by the Holy Spirit working in them. 5. Therefore, all those who are saved, will by the power of the Holy Spirit, also be people who practice Holy Lives. Not utterly sinless lives, but lives that have conquered sin such that we, in a relative way, can see a progressed holiness. 6. Therefore it is true, that only those who overcome sin will be saved in that day in which God judges all flesh, as stated in those verses which we are discussing. Therefore it is true there is a holiness without which nobody will see God (Heb 12:14). Therefore it is true that sin will not have dominion over us. Therefore it is true that those with lives completely overcomed by these sins will not be saved in that day. 7. We must understand, the things in point 6 do not "save us" or merit our salvation. They are what God do to a saved person after they are saved. One of the major problems in your attempt to understand this is that you fail to realize who what passages are speaking to. You said: "Romans 6-8 says we are free yet various other places still list the penalty of sin. Which is it are we free or not. Or have we not been looking at these passages and understandin what they say." When scripture says the penalty for sin is death, that is what is true for those who do not have Christ. When scripture says that we are free from sin, or that sin will not have dominion over us, or any such thing, that is said to those who are in Christ, who have through faith had Christ die that death penalty for us. How can you ask which it is? It is one for those without Christ, and the other for those who have Christ. Now if you are inclined to say, "Yes, but what scripture do you use to support any of this?" then I urge you to reread my posts in this thread where I did defend these things with passages, or at least any point of it I thought would be contested. I am saying nothing in this post I have not been saying the entire thread. In Christ, Beja |
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