I trust God. Among men I have found some in whom I could confidence in their sincerity, but that is not the same, is it?
It is not that different people are told different things. People receive the Holy Ghost and start learning to trust Jesus, but they are not always listening for His voice, or cut off his words before he is finished speaking to their hearts. Our communication with God needs to improve as we continue to walk with Him, but too often they do not. Churches, ministers quite frequently, I believe, teach people to quench the Holy Spirit in them.
Believers do not realize that many times they hear things that are not of or from God, but they treat those things as if they also were from God. We can make mistakes after receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost because we do quench the Spirit in us and our own fleshly minds kick in with our own conclusions sometime based on scriptures that are in our head.
Consider @"ByGrace" question about I Kings 13. That man out of Judah was a man of God. His prophecies about King Josiah were fulfilled. Yet, the man of God was killed by a lion because he went ahead and acted one time without checking in with God.
I believe that as a man he had the ability to sin. If that is having a sin nature, then yes.
The Apostle Paul did study for years and knew the scriptures very well long before he met Jesus on the road to Damascus. All of his knowledge was for naught until he met Jesus and began to follow God's lead in his life. Then the anointing was on him and one result we see is most of the written NT. God used the knowledge that was in him through the Holy Spirit. What did Paul have before that?
"[God] Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." II Cor 3:6
Paul had the "letter" of the scriptures, but without the Spirit to quicken them in him, they were worse than worthless to him. Before meeting Jesus he was persecuting God's people.
Adam and Eve were without sin until they sinned. They were clean and pure, but they had the ability to make dirty that which they had and they did. Jesus did not.
If Adam and Eve had rebuked the serpent and went instead to the Tree of Life and ate of it, we would have a different story, would we not?
Jesus did what Adam and Eve did not.
The ability to sin, is not sin. Jesus had the ability to sin, but He also had the power of God which was able to overcome the real temptations of the veil of flesh which he had taken on.... The Father of Jesus was God so the power was there in the flesh The mother of Jesus was a woman who had sinned, and so from her he received a body of flesh which had the ability to sin.
The sacrifice was a body of flesh that was kept always from the flaws that would have disqualified it as a sacrifice.
Never mind tradition! Be concerned with what God has done and what He really wants us to do.
Man has done the same with and in what he names as churches that man did with the opportunity given to Adam and Eve. Do you see a church group anywhere that had all that is needed and has never preached a wrong message to people insofar as God is concerned? I have seen some better ones than most, they too as a whole miss the mark. God is looking to the hearts of individuals who have surrendered and are continuing to surrendering to Him. Those He will reform as a Potter that marred clay. Jesus was given a similar piece of clay, but it was never marred. It never required reforming.
