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NASB | Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 10:14 For by the one offering He has perfected forever and completely cleansed those who are being sanctified [bringing each believer to spiritual completion and maturity]. |
Bible Question:
Please explain to me how you think that those passages can be construed to mean that we will always sin. I am getting the exact opposite. What part of "If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth." says that we are going to sin? On the contrary, "If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin." Unless you are saying that you can walk in the light and sin at the same time? How many verses can I point out against that notion? On to "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us": I do not claim that I am perfect yet, but my conscience is clear. Paul claimed this over and over again. I am simply saying that I have the hope that I will be changed into the likeness of God's Son one day. In your follow up post you reference 1John 3:2 - notice the word "when". It's not "after he appears", it's "when he appears". It's the same thing in 1John 3:28 "And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming." Why do you refuse to believe that the Holy Spirit in me is capable of producing perfection/holiness identical to that of Jesus Christ? I have received the Spirit of Christ Jesus, and have died to my sinful nature. I am not living my life anymore, but Christ's. He bought me at a price, and now I will live for him. For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of selfÂdiscipline (2 Timothy 1:7). I choose, therefore, to live by the Spirit, and keep in step with the Spirit, and claim the promise that I will not gratify the desires of my sinful nature if I do (See Galatians 5). God's word cannot be broken, and God cannot lie. The same God that created the universe with words spoke that promise, and I believe it. |
Bible Answer: "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us" means I sin. The Holy Spirit is is capable of producing perfection/holiness identical to that of Jesus Christ ... but my flesh is week. |