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King James Bible Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe: 1Thes 2:10

Indeed he reached a point where he knew he was powerless against unintentional sin.

Interpreting Romans 7. There have been two interpretations of Romans 7 which have dominated church history and which are sometimes known as the Primitive and the Post-Primitive. Augustine held to the Primitive in his early years, as did some of the Church Fathers and writers before Augustine...

This is the main difference between us - your interpretation of Romans 7 which is not the early one in the church by the way. This says that Paul was already a follower of Christ and therefore loved the law in his inner man, but struggled due to his flesh still not being in its crucified...

It is in the beginning when we start on our journey. Our flesh is still active in us but putting it to death gradually is not what we need and in fact no-one has a testimony of this. We need to accept that the old man is crucifed and totally out of action in order to progress, which was already...

@marks I am remembering now the to and fro's we used to have about the flesh and you saying that the inner man is free even when the outer man, is sinning - unintentionally of course. I hope I got that right. This idea was condemned at some time. I will try again to explain my understanding...

It includes complete trust that Christ saves us from sin therefore we do not sin. It now depends on what we call sin.

'If the Spirit of God dwell in you' is the point. If. Most believers take it for granted that because they came to Christ at one point, try to be good Christians most of the time, read their bibles and go to church they are okay. However the scriptures are clear, the Holy Spirit can only dwell...

Sorry not sure what you mean exactly. I understand it as the two covenants depicated in the garden. The way of life, or spiritual death. Concentrating on individual sins does not get us out of the flesh. The flesh is an ongoing state unless we are delivered from it. We should be living in...

Walking in the flesh, means using our own understanding, even though we think we are walking in the Spirit, and we cannot avoid sin, although we are avoiding gross sins being 'good Christians'. Unless our hearts and minds are pure, we are in the flesh. We cannot control our thoughts which come...

It means the present active state/practice of sin. Or being in the flesh. We are in the flesh or in the Spirit. Eating from the wrong tree that was in the garden,

Sounds like you are in burnout and need to stop.

There is nothing I can do or verses I can quote if the Holy Spirit is not working in you at the moment. I can only pray for you. I mean that sincerely.

It is due to the continuous cleansing, it is not a once done job. It depends on us walking in the Light by entire submission to Christ. I have said that a believer can sin and will never reach a time when he cannot fall. But by then he is not walking in the light. But you have not addressed...

@bdavidc wrote: Referring to John’s use of “we” as the “royal we” still does not fix the problem. John was not addressing himself as a king speaking ceremoniously about himself. John repeatedly says “we,” referring to himself and his fellow believers in Christ: “That which we have seen and...

As Anathasius said 'God became man so that man might become god'. The only way to understand the Incarnation, is to understand theosis or divinization or translation into the kingdom. The only way to understand theosis is to have been actually in it, partaking of the divine nature. If you are...

For now we walk by faith not sight. But then, we will be walking by sight and seeing Him, we will no more be absent from this sight of Him.

Your teaching has never appeared in either the fully sanctified early church fathers or those teaching holiness through church history. Tell me who else taught it.

Scripture does not teach works salvation as so many here have tried to tell you.

I certanly will not bring Augustine in, the author of Calvinism. John is using 'we' in the royal 'we' form, if you have heard of that. It has been famously used by the late queen and is a common literally practise.. John says IF we sin not when we sin. Agreed that there is a remedy for it so...