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No, John agrees with me, or I should say, I agree with him, because I know what he means. You underline the two verses in 1 John 1 that are to be read together in context. 8 is before Christ. 9 is how to become a Christian. You must understand John by the context of the whole epistle. Look at 1...

God is the Great Psychiatrist! LOL What you say about turning away from temptation and all that is fine with me. I agree. Even though the sin nature is dead, you can resurrect it by choosing a different master. OSAS is a myth.

As I said, the sin nature is bad. That is why it is removed by the Spirit. It is not only a fact, as in we are dead to sin, but we must also reckon ourselves dead to sin, which is what you are talking about. But we must first be dead to sin. That only happens through the baptism of the Holy...

I disagree. The mind is also the flesh and is either unregenerate or reborn. The mind is the source of adultery, murders, sorcery, lack of self control, etc. We have the mind of Christ.

The flesh is bad, that is why God replaces it. That is what being born again is all about. Not just our spirit, but our sin nature (flesh). We consist of spirit, mind and body. Our spirit and mind are born again of the Spirit. Our mind is the sin nature we’ve inherited from Adam, and is renewed...

The way I look at the flesh is Romans 6 - we are dead to sin, and that means our sin nature is dead - the other meaning of "flesh." We suddenly hate sin and love righteousness. It is easy not to sin, because even when temptation comes our way, we can do all things through Christ Who strengthens...

You didn't answer this part "Then if you cannot sin, how can you say the flesh is not dead?"

It's a "grace" covers sin type church.

Then if you cannot sin, how can you say the flesh is not dead? For instance, my husband married his mistress. Are they living in adultery because he divorced me and married his best friend's wife? Will they go to heaven? They go to church.

So what happens if you don't change the channel and continue in adultery because the flesh is so weak?

So what you are saying is that sorcery, adultery, murdering is just part of our flesh and will be destroyed in the end, but our spirit will go to heaven? Galatians 5:19-21 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery...

Yes, you said that and you know it.

What I believe is beyond your ability to understand. 1 Corinthians 2:14

It is not only false, but dangerous.

Wrong, God does not throw and catch the lifeline at the same time as Reformed Theology teaches. We are responsible to catch the lifeline thrown toward us. God doesn't catch it for us. But He has given us the measure of faith needed to catch it if we choose to. The Bible teaches free will...

Are we responsible for accepting or rejecting Christ. YES!

Only those who have actually been baptized in the Spirit can say this and mean it, for they live it.

Wow! You have described yourself in this verse, profoundly. 2 Timothy 4:3 "3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, 4 and will turn away their ears...

We can do nothing without God. We must surrender to Christ. With your background, this is going to sound very foreign to you. I would suggest trying a different theology, because the one you are in is false and it shows.

What translation are you using?