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Paul is talking about the apostles, not us! Only the apostles were the FIRST TO BELIEVE. Paul is introducing himself to the Ephesians as an apostle. Ephesians 1:12 12 that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. Predestination doesn't have anything to do with...

I agree about those practicing sin. I do not commit willful sins once, let alone practice willful sin. K, the doctrine of sinlessness died when the worldly Roman Church built their first confessionals. The false doctrine that Christians will always sin is heresy, and for some reason has not...

No, I've never seen that, but there is a scripture that I think you'll like. What is cut off is SIN. But ALSO the AUTHOR of sin, Satan. They are cut off of our nature. This is why a born again of the Spirit Christian no longer has a sin nature. Our cleansed nature can partake of the divine...

Don't you care what John meant, or do you think John lost your little word game so God must honor you for sinning, because at least you know you're lying? No, EG! If an unregenerate Jew came up and said they were without sin because they kept the Ten Commandments, it is they who would be lying...

Post #581 shows you what John meant. If John claimed he was sinless and was watching porn, he would be deceived. What is so hard to understand? Don't you care what John is actually saying, or do you want a verse to justify why you sin?

Only one could I tell was not born again. She had been my best friend and she was brought into my life to introduce me to Spirit-filled Christians. Met her in 1976. But her lack of conscience has made me question if she is saved, or just religious.

No wonder you are having a problem with sin the way you think. Proverbs 23:5 As a man thinks in his heart, SO IS HE. Solomon didn't have the power of the blood of Jesus. I do. Do you? Study the Scriptures I showed in #591 and get them in your heart.

I agree that OSAS is false. And yes, we must endure to the end. But that doesn't mean that I have no assurance. 2 Peter 1:10-11 10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; 11 for so an entrance will be...

You are right. The Ten Commandments are what I call the "bottom line." But God writes the deeper laws on our super-sensitized Spirit-empowered conscience. That is what I go by. I never disobey my conscience. Interestingly, that was a habit I seemed to have been born with. But when I was born...

John 3: 3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” 5 Jesus answered, “Most...

Very good response.

EXCELLENT!!!!! joy: In our case, Jesus took away our sin too. 1 John 3:4-9. Even the author of sin was taken from us, so take a look at 8 and 9 especially! 4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins...

EG, you are reading it with the common western mindset. But John was Hebrew and wrote with an EASTERN style. He repeats the concept in chapter two 1 John 2 4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 6 He who says he abides in Him...

Yes, 3-6

How many years BC do you count the birth of Jesus?

That is not true of those who are born of God because we have experienced a supernatural rebirth. The normal person without Christ does have the old man and sin nature forever. So, you're right, they can't be sinless. But he was speaking to me.

Of course! I have been born of God since 1977

The first thing every born again believer understands is that the desire to sin a major moral sin (Ten Commandments) IS GONE. I felt it leave my body. We are immediately RIGHTEOUS. What is a progress is the maturing of the fruit of the Spirit. That is why Peter makes it progressive in 2 Peter...

In Colossians the context is in the preceding chapter. It is about sin. Colossians 2:11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also...

Seeing as Jesus is our High Priest and doing the circumcising, what does it say Jesus came to "take away"? That is the circumcision.