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NASB | Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 3:23 since all have sinned and continually fall short of the glory of God, |
Subject: Are christians sinners or not? |
Bible Note: What does 1John 3 mean? I like the way Jesus taught so let me start with a story. When I was seventeen my dad got me a job where he worked. There was a man that worked with him who claimed to be filled with the Holy Spirit 24 hours a day. He would then have a problem and he would say my stupid (expletive) truck that dumb (more expletives) mechanic was suppose to fix it. The mechanic, whom I worked with all summer, said you really take you religion seriously I never hear you speaking bad or listening to company gossip. This person did not even consider himself religious yet they knew the difference between someone who lived it and someone who did not. Now was I perfect? No. Have I been made perfect? Yes. To me verses if looked at out of proper context they conflict. Compare these two: 1 John 3:6 No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. 1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. So how do we bring these passages to a resolution? Let do another story. Say you’re a police officer and you come to a car wreck. You ask, “What happened?” One person says this blue van came up from the left and hit the brown car in the middle of the intersection. You speak to another witness and they say the van came from the right. Who is right, both are it is all just a matter of perspective when you consider the people where standing on opposite sides of the street. So what does this have to do with the price of a steak in St Paul MN? I think one passage sees us from mans perspective the other from Gods. One of the teachers in college said that the idea of justification was, just as if I never had sin. So when we see our selves and others we see sinners. People who have sinned and who win sin again. However when God looks at us, it is as if we never have sinned because He sees the blood of His perfect Son covering our shortcomings. 1 John 1:7 but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. I hope this explains my line of thinking well enough, one. |