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You want a judicial forgiveness..a legal forgiveness...like what Jesus Barabbas got. That's your Jesus...the decoy one. The scapegoat...the azazel. Whatever you can get for free.
Yes, because they cannot bear fruit. How do you know that 1 John 1:7 is only about unintentional sin. Why not believe the OSAS of Luther and Calvin, or maybe you already do.
Yes! A Thousand Times, Yes!
Do you not remember that the Old Covenant is our schoolmaster? It teaches sins unto death and sins not unto death in the form of "willful lawlessness" and "unintentional sin." God does not change.
There you go not knowing the Scriptures! Once you are born again of the Spirit YOU ARE NOT IN THE FLESH. What you believe about the flesh is the false doctrine of the Reformation that Jesus declared as "dead."
Unredeemed, unbelieving sinners are condemned by their unrighteousness. They don't believe in the forgiveness of God in Christ that would otherwise rescue them from the just penalty of their sins.
1 John 1:7 can only be about sin that is not committed because of willful unbelief because there is no forgiveness available for the person who is in unbelief. You can't have the benefit of a forgiveness that you have rejected in unbelief. The forgiveness of God is obtained and applied to a person by that person believing and trusting in it. That's what being made right with God by faith, apart from the merit of works, means.
How are you trying to relate the matter of OSAS to this discussion?
You are mistaking our body as "the flesh" Paul is referring to, but it is not. The flesh he speaks of is the carnal sin nature, not our body. The flesh controls the actions of our body and why the sin nature must be born again of the Spirit so that the actions of our body are now righteous, as the Spirit is righteous. Without the Spirit the old sin nature controls the body as it has since Adam sinned. This is why Jesus came, to TAKE AWAY our sin. From where? Our NATURE - our spirit and soul - the invisible inner part of us.
I believe and agree with that. But I still sin. Just not intentionally and deliberately in unbelief as an unbeliever does. Not being in the flesh does not mean the believer doesn't ever sin. It means he has a different relationship with the flesh. The flesh for the born again believer is like a deceased husband who no longer has authority over them to make them bear fruit to him out of lawful obligation to him anymore. Like how a woman married to a husband is obligated by reason of law to obey and submit to her husband and bear his fruit. The law that requires you do that cannot enforce that relationship anymore because marriage only lasts as long as the husband is alive. As believers, we died to the law that enforces our relationship with 'flesh' and so we are free to marry another, Jesus Christ, and bear his fruit.
It is more than the penalty of our sins that Jesus redeems. It is SIN ITSELF.
It is a false doctrine from the Reformation. Everything you seem to believe is related to the doctrines of the Reformation.
If you are really born again, you would have no desire to sin. So how do you know you sin if it is unintentional. That means unknown. Are you just mouthing a false belief? A belief that is against what Paul tells us? We are to reckon ourselves free of sin, lest we sin. By telling yourself you still sin, you surely will.
As I have just said in a post above, the power and authority that the flesh has over us ceases. Because the marriage one has to flesh ends at the death of that husband. Your flesh doesn't literally die, of course (not yet). It's figurative language used to describe how the Holy Spirit in you has removed the power and authority of the flesh as though it is dead, likening it to the death of a husband who once exercised his power over a wife by the authority given him by the law of marriage. With husband 'flesh' not deceased (as I have just described what that means) its power and authority over you to bear it's fruit (sin) ends and you are now free to be married to Jesus Christ and bear his fruit, the fruit of righteousness.
The point is "the flesh" that Paul is speaking of has nothing to do with our BODY. It is the invisible inner NATURE that is in control of our body. Either clean, or filthy.
I'm just going by what the Bible says, Reformed doctrine notwithstanding.
So am I. But the unchanged Bible with two types of sin, not the "sin is sin" of the Reformation that Jesus says is dead. Meaning there is no life of truth in it.
No, the 'flesh' means your biological functions and your mind/soul. Your spirit is the inner man where transformation has occurred by the Spirit - Spirit in union with spirit (like a marriage).
Then how can the flesh be in the past tense? Because it is NOT talking about our body. It is talking about the spirit and soul that makes up our nature. Does your beliefs say that you still have a sin nature? If not, maybe we are closer than I thought of you. Or is it your very present sin nature that is what tells you you still sin?
The only sin that is unto death is the sin, any sin, that stems from your willful decision to sin in unbelief.
Flesh is a noun, so I don't understand your question.
The flesh does mean both body and soul. It's clear that addictions are not just mental but are rooted in biology, too. The fact that the body becomes enslaved to various physical stimulations as a matter of biology, not just the mind, is proof of that.
I was answering the questions you asked!!
I'm defending (maybe not very well, mind you) this man who follows God from you (and others) who try to soil his reputation.
Yes, it's terrible, all the quarreling here!! I hate it, I usually stay away because of it. It has kept me silent for years. I had only been a visitor, watching from the sidelines.1Cor 1:11 For it has been reported to me by Ce's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers.
1Cor 1:12 What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”
1Cor 1:13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul [Epi] crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul [Epi]?
I agree wholeheartedly.
I do, and am, and that's why I'm defending a man who loves and teaches the truth.
No, he teaches to have the fear of God since it's the beginning of wisdom. Have you not read that in the bible? It's said many times, you should do a study on that, I did.
Joshua 24:14
