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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: Sir Pent Ordered by Verse |
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541 | When and how EVIL came about? | Rom 5:12 | Sir Pent | 65751 | ||
A Different View ............................................. I think the question is flawed to begin with. "Evil" is not actually a thing at all. Therefore it was never created by anyone or anything. Instead what we think of as "Evil" is really nothing more than a perversion of something good. For instance, God created sex as a good thing between a married man and woman. However, when mankind takes that good gift and takes it out of the marriage covenant, then it becomes sin and is viewed as "evil". God created all good things, man has perverted many of them. |
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542 | the different between old and new | Rom 5:13 | Sir Pent | 117157 | ||
Request for clarification.......................................... Welcome to the forum B Hancock, Could you please state who that phone number is contacting. Since this is your first message on the forum, it is impossible to determine who you are affiliated with. |
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543 | Is iT possible to live without sin? | Rom 6:2 | Sir Pent | 23574 | ||
Contrary View .............................. Dear Resurrectioner, I am not prepared at this time to do a full discussion on this topic, but I just wanted to let you know that I think that it IS possible to live a life without sin after salvation (not before). This doctrine is called "Entire Sanctification", and you can find some posts on the subject by doing a search for those words. |
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544 | Is iT possible to live without sin? | Rom 6:2 | Sir Pent | 24069 | ||
Support .......................................... Dear Tim, If I understand your post correctly, you are saying that Christians have the ability to choose to sin. However, as new creations, they also have the ability to choose NOT to sin. Therefore, it is possible for a Christian to live without willfull sin in their life. I completely agree with that :) |
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545 | Is iT possible to live without sin? | Rom 6:2 | Sir Pent | 24077 | ||
Contrary View .................................. Dear Joe, I agree that humans are responsible for their own sins, and cannot blaim the devil for "putting us in sin". I disagree that the passages in the Bible that instruct certain groups of believers to do or refrain from doing certain things means that all of them were guilty of that. It is quite likely that while a large number of them were guilty (thus the instruction), that there were some who did not participate in those sins. As for whether a person could live a life free from sin (after salvation), some of the reasoning behind this is dependant upon a "free will" perspective. Since you do not have this perspective, it is not reasonable to try to convince you otherwise. I commend your consistency while disagreeing with your conclusions. |
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546 | Lanny, What is your definition of sin? | Rom 6:2 | Sir Pent | 24078 | ||
Personal Note .................................... Dear Joe, Lanny already gave his definition of sin. It is different than yours, but I don't think it is accurate to call it "weaker". |
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547 | Lanny, What is your definition of sin? | Rom 6:2 | Sir Pent | 24088 | ||
Examples of accidental disobedience ............. One of the commandments is to not steal. If you buy something at a store, and then clerk gives you a ten dollar bill in change instead of a one, and you walk a way without realizing it then you stole nine dollars from that store. But you didn't know it so it was accidental. I believe that when you discover what happened that you should take the money back, however, I don't believe that God holds you responsible for that action unless you did it on purpose. Other examples would include taking home the wrong purse or coat from a place because it looked like yours, or driveing 10 miles over the speed limit because your spedometer is broken, etc. |
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548 | Is iT possible to live without sin? | Rom 6:2 | Sir Pent | 24090 | ||
Clarification ................................... Dear Joe, It appears that there is a confusion here that needs to be cleared up to begin with. I don't believe that Lanny (or anyone else that is supporting the idea of a sinless life) is equating that state with basic Christianity. It is obvious that there are many Christians (including myself) who continue to sin at times (some Christians even have habitual sins). What we are trying to say is that it is possible for Christians to reach the point where they stop sinning. As for whether I know anyone who has done this, I'm not sure. I don't follow anyone around constantly, and I can't read their thoughts. And anyone who would be in this category would obviously not go around bragging about it. But there are several people at my church who I suspect have reached this point, and do not know of any sins that they have committed in word or deed in the last several years. These are older saints who have spent a lifetime of walking with the Lord, and who have completely committed their life to Him. |
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549 | Is iT possible to live without sin? | Rom 6:2 | Sir Pent | 24092 | ||
Personal Note .................................... Dear Tim, Thanks, my Thanksgiving vacation was one of the best ever. I hope that yours was also blessed! As for whether it is possible to sin "non-willfully", please see my "examples of accidental disobedience" post. The basic idea is that it is possible to do something that displeases God, or fail to do something that God requires, without planning to do it. |
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550 | 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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551 | Lanny, What is your definition of sin? | Rom 6:2 | Sir Pent | 24109 | ||
Clarification .................................... Dear Joe, It seems to me that your reasoning is circular. You say that there is no sin that is unintentional because sin is disobedience and there is no disobedience that is unitentional. If you're going to define the words in that way then that's fine, but it isn't how they are normally defined. Disobedience is defined by the dictionary to mean: refusal or neglect to obey. I would agree that "refusal" requires intent. However, neglect does not. A person who speeds due to an inaccurate spedometer neglected to obey the law, but was unaware of it. This would still be classified as disobedience. However, that is just a argument of semantics. I think that a more important issue with your post was your implication that it is impossible for a Christian today (who is not famous) to be a closer follower of Christ's example than a famous Christian of yesteryear (Paul, Luther, Calvin, etc.) This just doesn't make sense. We would all agree that there has been a progressive revelation of God throughout time. We would all assume that Elijah had a better picture of Christ to follow than Adam, and that the apostle John had a better picture of Christ to follow than Elijah. It is also true that Christians today have resources and materials to complete their picture of Christ that were not available in Augustine's day. And Luther may have been close in His relationship to God, but so are people today. Calvin may have been smart, but not smarter than all the Christians alive today. My point is that we have everything that they had, and more. Therefore, it is not impossible that an 85 year old saint that quitely follows God in her local community could actually lead a more Christ-like life than one of the famous "church fathers". |
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552 | Lanny, What is your definition of sin? | Rom 6:2 | Sir Pent | 24204 | ||
Contrary View ................................. Dear Joe, In this post, I'll continue the normal pattern of thread debate, that we always seem to use on this forum. I will pick specific things out of your post that I disagree with and try to prove them wrong. However, I will also post a second response seperately that will try a different approach. In that post, I'll try to get to the heart of the issue and deal with it. Let me know which one you think is better. Your last post said that you didn't believe that "God would consider it to be sin of any kind if we unknowingly" did something wrong. However, that happened in the Bible. When Joshua was leading the Israelites in their battles against the Caananites, everything went great against the city of Jericho. But then the next battle was totally different. The Israelites were defeated, and many of them were killed. It turned out that the reason was because one guy in the army had taken some loot from the previous battle against God's command. After that was taken care of, everything went great for the rest of the campaign. The point is that Joshua did not know that the sin had been committed by one of his men. But God still held His people responsible. Many Israelites lost their lives because of a sin they weren't even aware of. Your last post said that "Scripture is absolutely sufficient for all our sanctification by the Spirit of God". I completely agree. However, you also said that "We have no more spiritual resources that make us superior in ability to lead a Christlike life than Augustine". We may or may not have superior personal ability, but we deffinately have superior opportunity. Just because the Bible is "sufficient" for salvation and spiritual growth doesn't mean that it is the only "resource" that can assist in that process. Many people have come to a relationship with God through such unispired "resources" as The Jesus Film, C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity, Sheldon's In His Steps, Bunyon's Pilgrim's Progress, etc. And the myriads of commentaries that have been written throughout the ages enable us to quickly learn many different truths from passages of scripture that probably took the writers years to learn on their own. Your last post said that because I believe that Christians could potentially fullfill the Biblical command to be perfect after the example of our Heavenly Father, that I have "a completely deficient grasp of the utter holiness of the conduct of God the Son". I will admit that I do not fully grasp the holiness of God or of Jesus, however, I doubt that you would claim to totally grasp it either. I would also disagree that the limited grasp that I do have of God's holiness is "completely deficient", or even much more incomplete than your grasp is. However, the Bible has lots of instruction on what God requries of us (ie. do justly, love mercy, walk humbly, ten commandments, love God, love our neighbor etc.), and I know people who have not broken any of these requirements recently (to my knowledge). |
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553 | Lanny, What is your definition of sin? | Rom 6:2 | Sir Pent | 24205 | ||
Attempt at consensus .......................... I suspect we agree more than we disagree here Joe. If we step back from the argument and look at it, it seems to really just be about the definition of the word sin. You seem to be defining "sin" in terms of the attitude of the person. This is a valid perspective most of the time. Jesus often talked of how God looks at the heart when He judges us. From this perspective, it would seem very difficult (if not impossible) to sin accidentally. I am describing "sin" in terms of the actions themselves. This is also a valid perspective most of the time. God has commanded many actions and condemned many other actions in both the Old and New Testaments. Therefore, in general, actions themselves can be classified as either in line with or against the will of God. For instance, prayer to God would be in line with His will, and stealing would be against His will (sin). While both of these perspectives are valid most of the time, they do both have limitations and dangers. The first perspective (that you are supporting) comes dangerously close to relativism at times. When "sin" is defined solely based on a person's attitude (which we can never know completely), it is easy for someone to say, "well that may be wrong for you, but it is not wrong for me". Sometimes this is accurate (ie. meat sacrificed to idols), however, most often this is said by a person trying to rationalize actual sin in their life. The second perspective (that I am supporting) comes dangerously close to legalism at times. When "sin" is defined solely based on a person's actions, it is easy for a person to do the right things with the wrong motivation. Sometimes this is healthy (ie. when we feel like praising God the least is when we need to do it the most). However, if continued for a long period of time, it can lead to pure hypocracy and can rob a person of the joy of true relationship with God. If I had to pick one of these perspectives, I'd choose the second. Better to err on the side caution, and stick to close to the letter of the law, than to err on the side of folly and commit egregious sins. However, the best choice of all is not to pick between these options, but rather to balance them and live by both. That is where we probably agree. I assume that we would both see the value (and danger) in each view independantly, and therefore the wisdom in finding the balance. |
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554 | Why Jesus called Savior? | Rom 6:23 | Sir Pent | 112454 | ||
Answer................................... Dear Cryst9m, Jesus is called savior, because he has "saved" all who accept Him from sin and death. We have all sinned (Rom 3:23), and we all deserve to die (Rom 6:23). But because Jesus died for us on the cross, He has saved us from that punishment. |
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555 | knowledge of sin needed for salvation? | Rom 6:23 | Sir Pent | 113780 | ||
Personal Note.................................... Hi Makarios, I am truly intrigued and excited by your comment about starting your own family. Could you give some more information? |
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556 | knowledge of sin needed for salvation? | Rom 6:23 | Sir Pent | 116329 | ||
Personal Note............................................. Nolan, I am very happy for you and Katie as you approach the next stage of your journey together. I will pray for you both, and hope to get to see you soon and meet this woman who has captured the heart of my forever friend :) |
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557 | why does god require sacrafices | Rom 6:23 | Sir Pent | 117721 | ||
Personal Note......................................................... Hello Emmaus, Thanks for that great post on the sacrificial system of the Old Testament. I hadn't thought of the connection to the Egyptian false gods before. Very insightful! |
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558 | What if a saved person commits suicide? | Rom 6:23 | Sir Pent | 119552 | ||
Referral to another thread.......................................... Hello Jtknez, This question has been asked before. Please type in the number 117275 in the "Quick Search" box at the top right corner of the screen. This will take you to a previous discussion on the subject. After reading that, please share any other ideas or questions that you would like to add to the discussion. |
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559 | Why did God allow Job's children to die? | Rom 8:28 | Sir Pent | 65883 | ||
My Personal Experience ............................ Dear Williw02, This is a very hard question. I am a man who has had two of his own children die, so I begin to understand the pain that Job must have felt. The only answer that is of any comfort to me, and makes any sense is that it was part of God’s overall plan. No God didn’t personally kill Job’s children, but He did allow Satan to kill them. I have to believe that this was becuase it was one small part of God’s complete plan for the universe, and as such it would all work out for good in the end. As for the children themselves, as long as they had faith in God like their father Job, then they were actually going to a better place to be with the Lord. I hope that this is helpful for you, and if you have any more questions on this subject, feel free to ask me either on this forum, or at my email address listed in my personal profile. |
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560 | can you loose your salvation | Rom 8:28 | Sir Pent | 117728 | ||
Welcome to the forum Lonnie, You have asked a good question, and one that concerns a lot of people. Please type in the number 21448 into the "Quick Search" box at the top right corner of the screen to find some comments by myself and others on this idea. |
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