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The point is that even AFTER we have been born again of the Spirit, we will still commit minor sins not unto death. If you don't recognize what TYPE of sin we are talking about in 1 John 3, you will still consider yourself a sinner when we are actually children of God and walking in the light...

Those that are unknown to me, yes. I have made it a habit to never do anything against my conscience. Paul made that clear to me to always live with a clear conscience, so I do. It is so simple. It is also the way to abide in Him, and He in me. How about you. Same question.

There are two categories of the unsaved, and two of the saved in Scripture. Revelation 22:11 He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.” The two of the unsaved are...

Yes, in the Bible a mortal sin is against a commandment of God, and a venial sin is an action showing an immaturity of a fruit of the Spirit Galatians 5:22-23; 2 Peter 1:5-7.

I'll have to. :)

Back in 1977 having gone to church for 30 years, I was having an affair with a married man, thus committing adultery. That is a sin unto death. I tried and tried to break it off from him but kept failing. It was then that I had an epiphany about repentance. We cannot turn away from sin in our...

Verse 4 is important as the context of chapter three, talking about breaking the LAWS of God (sins unto death) or "mortal" sins, because the desire to break those laws is what Jesus in verse 5 cleansed out of our nature. We now have the desire to be righteous as in verse 10, the opposite of...

1 John 5:16-17 16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not leading to death. There is sin leading to death. I do not say that he should pray about that. 17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is...

Don't worry about me. Do you have a scripture that contradicts what I wrote. Let's see it?

Don't forget verse 4!!! It is the context - the type of sin this chapter is about!!! They are sins unto death - breaking a commandment of God like murder, etc. Most people who laugh at sinlessness, accusing us of teaching sinless perfection which is not taught, are probably free of mortal sins...

There are two types of sin. Which are you asking him about?

Did Jesus make you sinless? Yes. That is correct. But how many people believe Jesus wasn't able to make us sinless without our help? I've always heard it preached that repentance is us turning away from sin. But that is works and we are setting ourselves up for failure with that belief. True...

Jesus is, yes; but humans are VERY different with the infilling of the Spirit than they were with Satan's influence imbedded in us. 1 John 3:8-9

That is what it was like in the Old Covenant.

Of course it is possible! The Old Covenant was trying to be good in the flesh by the letter of the law and failing. The New Covenant is supernaturally being righteous without even trying with no struggle while abiding in Jesus. True Christians have been given a new nature that has been...

Some call Sinlessness "Sinless Perfection" when from day one of being born again of the Spirit that person has been cleansed of ALL Unrighteousness. That person is sinless, because not only does Christ take away our past sins (2 Peter 1:9) but the desire to sin from the sin nature has also been...

ROFL!!!!!! :jest:

Be happy with 1 John 3:7 and 1 John 5:18

What you are saying is that anyone that teaches something you didn't know is full of pride. Okay, got it!

Paul is writing to his congregation about the Gnostics who were infiltrating the churches and spreading heresies, 1 John 4:1-3. One of those heresies is what you, yourself, teach as I already showed you in Jude 1:4. Jesus wrote a prophetic letter to Sardis which we all know was the era of the...