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There's tempting, as in desire to do; and tempting as in testing, to see if there is a desire to sin! Dead faith means no faith at all, like a dead person. A backslider is one who is a hypocrite or apostate, who eventually manifest they weren't saved, because they always "return to their...

The "cloak" is thinking God will forgive you even if it's intentional sin. This would only be acceptable for a believer that is still temporarily immature about sinning. "Dominion" of the "old man" is its ability to cause us to desire and want to sin, which of course is the main point of it...

All I can say is what Scripture teaches, and I see nowhere it says a Christian wants to sin against God. It doesn't even sound right!

I see it that sin for the Christian is never intended but impulsively committed. I wouldn't think a believer would want to sin, though he knows he will, because of possessing the old man. I believe one who is professing to be saved, and sins intentionally and plans on sinning, probably isn't...

He knows those who will lovingly accept Him without Him overriding or "trespassing" against our will. Once we accept Christ, God ensures we will be willing to "please" Him (Phil 2:13).

Hi, and appreciate your reply! Like what you said. It's my understanding that the Gentiles were under the law of sin; and Israel was under the Law, which manifested to them that they were in sin and how to resolves it--through Christ. Though the Christian still sins, it is no longer "willful"...

Hi Randy, and like what you said, pretty perceptive in my opinion! Of course, we need not to be discouraged when we are considering the difference of the lifestyle between ours and the Lord Jesus', for God no longer sees us as sinners (1Pe 4:18). One is encouraged to know that there is no...

The difference between learning sin in God’s presence and learning by falling into it is very great. One may feel sin deeply, because one has committed it, but this never gives one God’s sense of what sin is. The Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ is the measure of what sin is in the sight of the...

Hi, and thanks for the encouraging reply! God bless!!

Have you noticed that the most important work of Christ—our eternal salvation—is one of the doctrines becoming increasingly misunderstood? Until this all-important issue is settled and established properly, there can be no real spiritual growth, for all growth truths are based and supported in...

Like what you are saying, and God bless!

Everybody who is supposed to be saved will be saved (Jhn 18:9); because their name is in the Book of Life. I think Calvin misses it when thinking that God only chooses certain people to salvation, unless his intention is that God only chooses people whom He knows will receive it; and I also...

Gill (1697-1771) was the first Baptist to produce a Bible commentary on the entire Bible. He was most noticed for his studies in Jewish writings, literature and customs. He is one of two commentators I've been using for 20 years now, and his comments are quite exhaustive and knowledgeable. The...

Hi, and thanks for your reply! When John wrote that we "cannot sin" it is in reference to desiring after sin, sinning "willfully" (Heb 10:26) or "presumptuously" (Num 15:28, 30). The sins of one reborn are never intentional. What believer would ever want to purposely offend God? The whole point...

Does God need to repeatedly forgive His children? What would such a need be, seeing He knows all we desire is to please Him; and this He assures (Phl 2:13). There is allowance for babes in Christ, who may yet have a habitual sin to give up, but He eventually brings all to the same knowledge...

True, spiritual growth can only come from studying God's Word and applying it by the Spirit! Only the NKJV and a few others like it contain the entire Word. No other modern translation can claim this because of the hundreds of omissions (Mat 4:4); what's just as bad is the changing...

There are primarily only two groups of manuscripts: the Majority Text, which contains the majority of all existing manuscripts; the Minority Text, which has only a few but older manuscripts; but they were partly produced by Gnostics, who do not believe Christ was deity. All translations derive...

“The doctrine of preservation does not guarantee the preservation of the autographs, for they perished within a few years after their writings. Neither does it guarantee the accuracy of the copies, because errant men copied them. It does guarantee that the complete contents of the infallible...

Hi Brother, and appreciate the input! God bless!!

It’s my understanding that the word “perfect” concerning a translation is mostly in reference to being complete, entire, and plenary. Thus, only translations derived from that majority of extant manuscripts contain all of Word of God (Mat 4:4)! Studying a translation which has much less...