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The difference is that I'm comparing to myself...not claiming any standard. I'm NOT getting more righteous in my own eyes. Of course such details escape you. To say I'm sinning less assumes that I fully understand every possible avenue of sin...only God can judge the intents of the heart.
You do not know Catholics, lol.
You show that you do not know Protestant Evangelicalism. JESUS is the hero, through and through in Protestantism. How did you miss this! You are the hero in your 'gospel'. How great thou art that you follow (so you say) God's commandments and are not like other men!
No, I'm afraid you are muddling things up. And God does give us discernment, as well as His word, to know and determine things. God gave man instruction not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, correct? Why is that? What does a tree represent in scripture? And fruit? Are we to eat the fruit of the tree of man (self), or the fruit of the tree of Christ? One leads to death and the other to life.
Wow, are you saying the cross is optional, and that God didn't desire to bring in the new covenant with the sacrifice of His Son? Jesus submitted to and obeyed the Father's WILL in going to the cross. It is through Jesus' sacrifice that He demonstrated His mercy.......He fulfilled His own Law on behalf of those who would receive His Son, at great cost to Himself. And now we are to bring forth spiritual fruit (not just "right living") to God's glory, not ours, in keeping with repentance......which we could not do without first having received Christ. His sacrifice was certainly not an occasion for joy, but it was the only way anyone could be saved.
The GOSPEL is not "protestantism". Protestantism is the name Catholics and the world gave to true Christ following, bible believing Christians who don't accept the Catholic religion. I have never thought of myself as "protestant", just Christian....and that by the sheer mercy of God.
Again, you are claiming something for your beliefs. By the bible is the knowledge of righteousness...but the bible does not impart righteousness. Only those with selective reading declare themselves as being righteous.
Christ Himself is the Tree of Life.........it is HIS fruit (righteousness) that we are to produce in keeping with repentance and what He has done IN us, in making us a new creature.
This is the bait and switch that every dishonest pretender pulls when they have painted themselves into a corner.
She can fill in the details, but when you post scriptures un-rightly divided away from the full counsel of the Bible you make the blood of Christ unneeded for the forgiveness of sin, not just the removal of sin.
The opposite of believing is not apostasy, but disobedience. I'm still not sure what you believe. Sometimes your posts are confusing and alien. Have you read Judge's posts? Do you believe the same, or differently?
Seeing as you seem to only read Hebrews and not the rest of the New Covenant, I'm not sure you know there are two types of sin. Sins unto death and sins not unto death. So which type of sins do you willfully commit because they are forgiven anyway.
Show me the verse that talks about the guilt of sin is no longer there when you commit sin?
Temptation is not sin, it is what leads to sin. How far do you go? If you truly act on the "driving temptation away," then I can agree with that regarding sin. But most of your posts regarding sin is the theology of defeatism. You even make Jesus a party to your sin. That's shameful.
In this New Covenant there is one sin unto death, not many. That's because the sins that were unto death and couldn't be forgiven under the old covenant are forgiven in this New Covenant. Acts 13:38-39 explains this. So there are no sins unto death anymore (except the sin of willful and informed unbelief, a.k.a blasphemy of the Spirit). Why are you ignoring this very clear teaching in scripture and insisting there are still specific sins that can't be forgiven in this New Covenant????
I do not commit willful, deliberate sins in a turning away from the forgiveness of God in Christ in unbelief. That is blasphemy of the Spirit. There is no forgiveness of sin for the person who rejects in unbelief the testimony of the Spirit about the blood through which those sins would otherwise be forgiven. You can't have the benefit of a sacrifice that you have knowingly rejected in unbelief. That unbelief is the only sin that can't be forgiven.
That is correct. When Jesus takes away our sin in 1 John 3:5 it is talking of lawlessness, verse 4, the context of the chapter. This type of sin has been cleansed from our nature. We do not have a sin nature, but now a clean nature that may partake of the divine nature of God.
This is also correct. So why do you post half truths most of the time? You make Jesus the Author of sin, instead of the cleansing of sin. You leave the impression that we can sin as much as we please with no GUILT!
It's not defeatism. It's knowing the truth that children of God grow up to look just like Dad, not start out way. Just as that is true of any legitimate child born into the family. That truth is comforting to the child of God learning and growing up into the things of God. It's a progression as Peter speaks about that in 2 Peter 1.
When you do not walk according to the fruit of the Spirit you are lawless.
If you knew Protestantism you'd know that it in no way teaches freedom to sin willfully and without guilt with impunity . Reformed doctrine, specifically, says the person who does that is showing themselves to not be born again. How did you not know this?
