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4121 | Can a born again sin as they did before? | 1 John 1:8 | Hank | 67782 | ||
Hi, Johnny. If you are saying that the born-again believer should not sin, I agree. If you are saying that he cannot sin (that he no longer has the ability to sin), I disagree. Please read 1 John 1:8 in the context of 1 John 1:5-2:1. Agape. --Hank | ||||||
4122 | Can a born again sin as they did before? | 1 John 1:8 | Hank | 67879 | ||
Johnny: My point was and still is that the born-again believer will not cease to sin; that is, that he will not and cannot live a totally sinless life from the moment of his regeneration till he departs this world through physical death. Conversion does not mean the eradication of the sin nature. It means the implanting of the new, divine nature, with power to live victoriously over indwelling sin. The letter of 1 John was written to believers (2:12). In 1:8 the Apostle says, "If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us." That, mind you, was addressed to believers. And the Apostle continues, still speaking to believers: "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us." (1:9,10). Now, Johnny, please consider what the Apostle is saying in 2:1: "My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin." John is not saying that they cannot sin (i.e., that they are now totally lacking in the ability to sin); neither is he telling believers to sin as little as possible. Because God is perfect, His standard for His people is absolute perfection. He would not be God if He had inspired John to write, "Sin just as little as you can." God cannot condone sin even in the most minute degree. So He sets perfection before us as the goal. The Lord Jesus did this with the woman who was caught in the act of adultery: "Go. From now on sin no more." (John 8:11). At the same time, the Lord knows our frame. He remembers that we are dust. He has graciously made provision for us when we fail to meet His standard. This John expresses as he continues with 2:1,2: "And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and He Himself is the propitation for our sins..." Propitation refers to the turning away of God's wrath. God's righteousness demands punishment for man's sin, but out of His love God sent His Son (John 3:16) to make substitutionary atonement for the believer's sin. It is in this way that the Father's wrath is propitiated (satisfied, appeased). His wrath against the sin of the believer has been turned away and directed toward Christ who paid the price of atonement on the cross. John uses the word "Advocate" in reference to Christ. That means defender. When the believer is lured by Satan to sin, Christ in effect points to His finished work on the cross and says on our behalf, "Charge that to My account!" Johnny, when we teach that the believer forfeits his free gift of salvation, received by the marvelous grace of Almighty God through faith in His glorious Son, because he cannot live the perfect life, before or after salvation, we are back on the seriously flawed doctrinal road of salvation by our own works, a tenet that the Bible does not support and one that makes man and his works the determinant factor in salvation and reduces to nothingness the redemptive work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Salvation is of God, from the alpha to the omega of it. All glory and praise to God and His Christ, now and forevermore. --Hank | ||||||
4123 | who is pure from sin | 1 John 1:9 | Hank | 38076 | ||
bgg, never did I say that the phrase 'living in sin' didn't exist in many English translations of the Bible. My statement was this: "Insofar as I've ever been able to determine, the Bible makes no distinction between 'sinning' and 'living in sin' -- sin is sin." I stand to be corrected, of course, but I believe this is true. May the good Lord bless you. --Hank | ||||||
4124 | who is pure from sin | 1 John 1:9 | Hank | 38078 | ||
Norrie, I know a man, well and personally, who was saved. But he was an alcoholic. He did not recover from his addiction in the twinkling of an eye. After he was saved, he had relapses and got as drunk as a fiddler. He would repent and vow never to touch liquor again. In another week or two, he hit the sauce again. This pattern continued for nearly a year after he became a Christian. According to his own testimony, he found release in this way: He said he finally came to the stark realization of what the real problem was -- that it was always he who vowed, he who promised, he who willed, that he would not touch liquor again. So he prayed. He confessed that he was powerless over alcohol. He quit making promises he could not keep and totally surrendered his will to the will of God, asking God to take over every aspect of his life. He gave himself up in total, absolute surrender to God. He found the answer; God healed him. He has not touched a drop of booze in over 15 years; he is now a minister, and a very effective one, in service to Jesus Christ. --Hank | ||||||
4125 | WHO pays the wage? | 1 John 1:9 | Hank | 134259 | ||
Salvation a reward for being good? Whatever happened to grace? See Ephesians 2:8,9. --Hank | ||||||
4126 | If you live right, you are rewarded? | 1 John 1:9 | Hank | 134304 | ||
survivor - You wrote, "I'm just trying to break the stifling environment of this Forum that is restriced by severe prejudice, which of course is hatred based on ignorance." .... Well, thanks a heap for looking out for us. We really don't know what we'd do without you, but we'd be willing to try. By the way, you still dodge the question about whether you're a Jehovah's Witness. Are you, yes or no? --Hank | ||||||
4127 | WHO pays the wage? | 1 John 1:9 | Hank | 134399 | ||
Angel - I'm as confused about your position on eternal security as a goose in a hen house. Does a regenerated believer truly have eternal life or not? Another way of asking this, I suppose, is, Does a born-again believer cease to be born again every time he sins, and must he be born again, again and again? If he "loses his salvation" every time he sins, does he cease to be a regenerate believer? And if man's confession of sin restores him to a born-again status, then is it not man's confession instead of God's grace that saves him? In other words, is God's gift of eternal life based solely on God's grace or are man's works, including confession of sin, a determining factor also? If works are a factor, then grace becomes insufficient and salvation becomes a joint enterprise between God and man, between God's grace and man's works, doesn't it? Do you know of Scriptures that clear up this confusing issue so that they who read may understand and they who search may find? --Hank | ||||||
4128 | WHO pays the wage? | 1 John 1:9 | Hank | 134745 | ||
Hi, Steve - Hmmm....I seem to have a Bible just like yours...inspired by the Holy Spirit, not by an Angel :-) --Hank | ||||||
4129 | How do we preach the Gospel? | 1 John 2:2 | Hank | 100521 | ||
Jehonadab - Why do you use B.C.E. instead of B.C. and C.E. instead of A.D.? I KNOW what the abbreviations stand for. I'm just curious why you use them. Something to do with your view of Christ perhaps? --Hank | ||||||
4130 | How do we preach the Gospel? | 1 John 2:2 | Hank | 100667 | ||
GeorgJoy - No need to coin "explainist" really. Just use "explainer" which is already coined and means the same thing! Or use "expositor." ..... If you are unhappy with the word "apologist" you might test drive words like defender, vindicator, advocate, and supporter. ..... Even though "apology" and its forms are perfectly good words to use in connection with theological matters, they certainly do have, as you say, other and very different meanings. Language is like that. The English words "flammable" and "inflammable" mean exactly the same thing. And if one said the Psalms are simply awful, would he be giving them a thumbs up or thumbs down? --Hank | ||||||
4131 | How do we preach the Gospel? | 1 John 2:2 | Hank | 100669 | ||
Radioman - Birds of a feather flock together. Watchtower uses the secular designatons "B.C.E." and "C.E." and so does Jehonadab, who is a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses. See Posts 99657 and 99665. --Hank | ||||||
4132 | How do we preach the Gospel? | 1 John 2:2 | Hank | 100672 | ||
Radioman - Of course, my original question to Jehonadab (and the follow-up question that's still hanging) was WHY did he use the secular forms instead of B.C. and A.D. Whether by accident or design I cannot say, but he nevertheless "answered" by telling me what the various terms meant, which I already knew and told him so in my question. And he added the notation about "some informed scholars prefer to use the secular designations 'B.C.E." and 'C.E.'" without saying who these "informed scholars" are and why they prefer the secular designations -- or why he used them. Perhaps he's one of the informed scholars. :-) --Hank | ||||||
4133 | How do we preach the Gospel? | 1 John 2:2 | Hank | 100678 | ||
Radioman - Well, yes the terms 'some scholars' and 'some authorities' are nebuluous enough, but what about the term 'informed scholar' (those who use B.C.E. and C.E.) -- did you ever hear of an UN-informed scholar? I gather that if a redundant informed scholar were a mathematician, he would draw round holes and square cubes, perhaps go skating on frozen ice, die dead, and leave behind a grieving widow woman. --Hank | ||||||
4134 | How do we preach the Gospel? | 1 John 2:2 | Hank | 100679 | ||
Radioman - In previous post I meant to say 'round circles' which is a redundancy, instead of 'round holes' which of course isn't. --Hank | ||||||
4135 | Jehonadab, Why C.E. and B.C.E.? | 1 John 2:2 | Hank | 100795 | ||
Emmaus - Yes, difficult for some to say that Jesus is Lord. Could it be because they don't believe that He is? [Asked rhetorically, no answer indicated.] --Hank | ||||||
4136 | Jehonadab, Why C.E. and B.C.E.? | 1 John 2:2 | Hank | 100809 | ||
Jehonadab - Thank you for your answer. But isn't this October 20, 2003 A.D. and October 20, 2003 C.E.? So, I fail to see the point of using C.E. in place of A.D. -- anno Domini, in the year of the Lord. Speaking of the Lord, what think ye of Christ, Jehonadab? Is He Deity, is He God the Son, is He indeed God -- or is he a god, as the NWT has it? --Hank | ||||||
4137 | How do we preach the Gospel? | 1 John 2:2 | Hank | 101168 | ||
John Reformed - Dear John, citing John 3:18 as a reference point, you write: "Those who do not believe, do not, for they are condemned already." ...... John, this is not what the passage says. John 3:18 says, "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." ..... Man does not believe because he has already been condemned, and the passage does not say that. He is condemned because he has not believed, and that's what the passage says. ..... The former is a Calvinistic spin. The latter is what the passage actually says. And the two don't mean the same thing at all. --Hank | ||||||
4138 | How do we preach the Gospel? | 1 John 2:2 | Hank | 101176 | ||
EdB - Search the world over and my guess is you will find a few human beings on the planet who admit to be Calvinists, but you won't find one of them who admits to be a hyper-Calvinist. --Hank | ||||||
4139 | How do we preach the Gospel? | 1 John 2:2 | Hank | 101180 | ||
John Reformed - In no way am I inviting you to a doctrinal duel over John 3:18. You made a statement. You cited this verse to back up your statement. It does not back up your statement. I pointed that out. All that was necessary of you was to admit candidly that you erred. Instead of that, you dragged into the discourse a lot of unnecessary smoke and mirrors, including the ridiculous insinuation that I am exempt from the rules of the Forum but you are not. --Hank | ||||||
4140 | How do we preach the Gospel? | 1 John 2:2 | Hank | 101185 | ||
John Reformed - "Where have I erred?" you ask. In post # 101168 I stated clearly and precisely wherein you erred. Did you or did you not err? If you didn't put a Calvinistic spin to his verse, John 3:18, then what would YOU call it? --Hank | ||||||
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