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That is true, but that particular verse is about the apostles. Do you believe Jesus ordained you? Really? It is verses like that about being chosen, or given that Calvinists create doctrines like OSAS out of.

Where is the other verse you bypassed???

That particular verse says Jesus ordained them. Those are the apostles. There are other verses that Calvinists love to claim that are also specific to the apostles, and they are all the verses where it says the the Father GIVES/GAVE them (an apostle) to Jesus. Gave and its derivatives are "key...

Children act like children. They are usually selfish, and throw tantrums. We must grow up and mature in the fruit of the Spirit, and the greatest one is Love. Seeing Jesus face to face is the second coming, and our time on earth is our testing time to grow up. He is coming very, very soon so it...

12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

Whose fault is it if you do not bear fruit and are cut of when it says you are IN HIM? John 15:1-4 Whose fault is it if you are born again yet at the end Jesus says He doesn't know you? Matthew 7:19-23 Answer these questions and without trying to sidestep them by asking a question.

When the Holy Spirit is finishing maturing the fruit of the Spirit in me, I need to cooperate. Interesting that you don't. Did I save myself to begin with? When I said "To become saved, no," what do you think I was saying? But to bear fruit and don't even when IN HIM, we have a lot to do with...

To become saved, no. But after? What about falling into temptation instead of taking the way of escape?

I didn't read E's post. There is nothing wrong in self effort if we have been given the authority to cast out devils in the name of Jesus. It is better than doing nothing and letting the person suffer. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.

"Exist" is the same as "abide."

Yes, that is a better way to put it. I just meant that someone who outwardly willfully sins is deemed righteous by God. What do you think about that. Do you agree? I praise God that I KNOW I am abiding IN Christ and have assurance of eternal life. I cannot speak for anyone else. There are some...

Exactly. We can't be righteous without the Spirit of Christ IN us. But it is not an invisible righteousness as some teach; we ARE righteous and live righteously naturally, with a clean nature. It isn't something we have to think about like rules. It is automatic. 1 John 3:7.

1 John 1:8 is BEFORE 1 John 1:9. To become a Christian you must confess your sin and be cleansed of all unrighteousness. Being a Jew doesn't mean you are going to heaven. See the word "say"? Chapter two makes it clearer. 1 John 2:3-4 3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His...

Romans 8:23 Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. The firstfruits of the Spirit is freedom from sin that came only through the Spirit. The body is controlled by...

The sin nature is "the flesh." I think we already went over Romans 7 that you didn't start early enough. Read verse 5. "The flesh" is the sin nature. It is not the body because how can a Christian NOT be in their body if they are indwelt with the Spirit of God. Romans 8:9. 7:5 says WHEN we were...

Behold, you know as well as I do that we MUST be born again of the Spirit, and that means we will be abiding IN Christ, and He will be living IN us. We cannot be righteous on our own without Christ because we will still have our sin nature. But Jesus cleanses our sin nature to a divine nature...

CONTEXT, CONTEXT, CONTEXT 1 John 3:4-5 Jesus writes on our hearts the laws of God and takes away our desire to break a law of God. Verse four is the contextual sin - LAWLESSNESS. We cannot commit lawlessness even once. There is no such thing in a Christians life that I won't practice murder...

It may be close to sinning for someone with a sin nature, but is far from sinning for those who are used to living righteously.

Don't forget that Jesus cleansed our sin nature so that all desire to sin willfully is gone. 1 John 3:8-9

We agree. 1 John 1:8 is NOT a Christian. 1 John 3:9 is a Christian.