The Godly Heresy of Sinless Perfectionism
Sinless Perfectionism is a doctrine like that. In short, it holds that it is possible for Christians to completely defeat sin in the present life and to live holy lives like Jesus did. At a glance, it makes a lot of sense. Jesus came to save us from sin. He died for our sins on the cross and he sent his Holy Spirit to empower his people to overcome sin and to live obedient, righteous lives in the present (Titus 2:11-14). Christians should have the highest aspirations for living holy lives and rejecting all sin.
The DOCTRINE ... of ONE person, is TYPICALLY misconstrued BY the MIS-UNDERSTANDING of ANOTHER Person.
What is the Doctrine of “sinless perfection”....I have only heard those words, from ONE, who is
DECIDING what an other Believes, THEN disagreeing with it.
Fact is: ONLY an individual is Accountable FOR WHAT “THEY” say for “THEMSELVES”.....NOT for what Others say FOR THEM.
Sinless Perfectionism is Unbiblical
I would agree: Claiming to be SINLESS, IS unbiblical.
I would disagree: Claiming to be PERFECTED, is NOT unbiblical.
I would also disagree: Men rolling such a phrase ( sinless perfection ) together and Deciding that is an other’s claim....while never quoting any other making such a claim.....IS DISINGENUOUS.
However, the Bible also says that ‘If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us’ (1 John 1:8). It
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Ah ha..the Typical go to Scriptural QUOTE, to bolster the claim AGAINST (sinless perfection ).... which such claim routinely only appears BY an Accuser.
Scripture never speaks of a SINLESS earthly man.
1 John 1:8...expressly speaks of a man WHO CLAIMS
TO HAVE NO SIN.
That Scripture IS utterly irrelevant....
UNTIL A MAN CLAIMS to HAVE NO SIN.
To PRETEND that IS the Doctrine of ANY MAN, IF no man claims that;
IS DISINGENUOUS.
It is widely agreeable among Christian teachings;
ALL MEN ARE NATURALLY BORN IN SIN.
NOT once have I heard verbally or seen printed ANYONE claim THEY were naturally born WITHOUT HAVING SIN.
Scriptural teaching DOES absolutely TEACH;
God FORGIVES Sin..of some men.
God WASHES Sin...of some men.
God COVERS Sin...of some men.
Never have seen Scriptural teaching, of SIN vanishing from natural mans BODY, to effect that man thereafter HAVING no SIN.
Scriptural teaching IS: Forgiven, Washed, Covered SIN OF a natural mans BODY......is a natural mans BODY, that
SHALL BE RAISED UP in a new body.
It is at the TIME of the Raising UP, WHEN the body IS “uncorrupted, glorified, and VOID of HAVING SIN”....SINLESS.
Regarding the WORD....
”root word” PERFECT...
YES...their IS Scriptural teaching OF MEN WHO BECOME PERFECT-ED.
It is disingenuous to roll a phrase of words together AND MAKE claims FOR OTHERS, which ARE FALSE.
All natural men are
BORN IN SIN.
All natural men have
COMMITTED SIN.
Men all
HAVE SIN in their body’s.
( and WHY, all men WITH God, shall Eventually receive A NEW BODY!)
Forgiven SIN, is Forgiven By God...the sin didn’t disappear...it was Forgiven.
A man WHO IS BAPTIZED with the Holy Spirit...has the Spirit of God IN him.
The Spirit of God IS LIGHT.
The Spirit of God IN a man, COVERS, overcomes the darkness of the SIN a man HAS in his body...WITH Gods LIGHT/Spirit.
God NO LONGER, SEES, the forgiven, covered, overcome SIN in that mans body.
That which God No Longer Sees......IS, BY God.....Forgotten, Remembered “NO MORE”.
A man WITH the Spirit of God “IN” him (Holy Spirit Baptism)....
HAS ALSO receiv-ED, the SEED of God, which births the man’s NEW SPIRIT.
Such man...Holy Spirit Baptized....forgiven, washed, covered, overcome, Has his SOUL “saved”, Has Gods Spirit, Has Gods Seed........is CALLED: SANCTIFIED....ie..SET APART.
THAT MAN......”accounted DEAD BODY...CAN SIN .......’NO MORE”...
THAT MAN’S natural body IS (according to God) ACCOUNTED DEAD, already accounted AS HAVING PAID it’s ONE requirement of DYING.
(As God Himself has APPOINTED ALL mens natural body’s to DIE ONCE.)
THAT MAN.....”IS” given the Lord Jesus’ RISEN Body to DWELL IN.....
UNTIL the mans OWN “new” body is Risen UP.
A MAN having received Gods Baptism of the Holy Spirit, Dwelling IN Jesus’ Risen Body........
IS CALLED; “
IN” Christ.
IS CALLED; Christ “
IN” him.
IS CALLED; “
PREFECT-
ED IN” Christ.
IS CALLED: “
Sanctified”...ie SET APART unto the Lord God.
IS CALLED: “
Delivered”....ie NOT APPOINTED to Wrath from Heaven.
IS CALLED; “
Justified”......ie TO BE, REDEEMED; risen up By the Lord, IN their own NEW glorified body.
IS CALLED; “
CAN SIN NO MORE”
Sinning NO MORE, does not mean, Never sinned, Has no sin, or is sinless.
Heb 10:
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14] For by one offering he hath
perfected for ever
them that are sanctified.
1 John 3:
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9]
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his
seed remaineth in him: and
he cannot sin,
because he is born of God.
Men making up convoluted phrases of words and pretending those are an others beliefs, doctrines is disingenuous and corrupt.
The MYTH, is pretending something IS while never QUOTING ANYONE having made such claims.