...bbyrd009
TO address your point of saying "one who claims to have no sin"....
I have expressly claimed to HAVE SIN...
Naturally born in sin and have committed sin;
Thus CAN NOT BE one to have NO SIN...and
Thus CAN NOT BE SINNLESS.
HOWEVER, I CAN, and AM, one who has BEEN FORGIVEN My Sin.
God is the one who reveals KNOWLEDGE.
And the knowledge revealed IS ANYONE who does NOT heartfully believe IN GOD, is committing a SIN AGAISNT GOD.
Whelp...EVERY man born is born in Sin, including myself.
God ALSO has a "WAY" for a man to become, FORGIVEN of His Sin Against God, and that Forgiveness is given BY GOD.
God ALSO has a "WAY" for a mans SIN to be COVERED, and thereafter, NOT SEEN BY GOD.
The Covering IS Gods Light, which is His Spirit. Which He imparts into a mans BODY of Sin, and Covers the mans SIN.
God No longer sees the mans sins, and thereafter, Remembers the mans sin NO MORE.
Whelp...I pretty much look at it this way...Since God has my sin Covered with His Light, and IS no longer remembering MY SIN, neither is there reason for me to dwell on WHAT WAS my sin. It's forgiven, it's covered.
Thus I turn to WHAT IS. (Rather than what was).
WHAT IS, IS....BECAUSE of Gods conversion within me....And HIS Power within me...I have become FREED FROM SIN.
And what does that mean?
That means, I am Freed from.....the effect of SIN....
The effects of SIN...is to be WITHOUT God.
The FREEING FROM SIN...is to be WITH God.
Then there is the issue of a man WITH SIN, who thus CAN COMMIT SIN, which is the action of SIN-ING.
During a mans Conversion, effected BY THE POWER OF GOD, ALSO address the action of SIN-ING. The converted man, CAN "SIN"...
NO MORE. And precisely FREED from sin.
He is not sinless...He still has sin, that IS forgiven, and Covered.
But going forward FROM NON converted "TO" converted....that man CAN SIN NO MORE...
THAT MAN CAN NEVER AGAIN, NOT believe in God and His Word and His Spirit.
That man can NEVER AGAIN, STAND AGAINST God, in disbelief or Unfaithfulness to God Only.
That man can NEVER again, BE separated FROM GOD.
That Standing with God forever; is provide BY GOD, for ANY man WHO elects to Choose God, and His Way of accepting His Gifts, to be forgiven, converted, and forever Free from Sin, and Sinning.
That was MY Choice, and thus what I accepted from God, and thus Because I Trust He is True and Faithful, I trust to believe, I am forgiven, converted, freed from sin, sin no more, and am forever in standing WITH, thee Lord God Almighty, AND accounted unto Him, as His "adopted" son.
God Bless,
Taken