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We aren't talking about the unregenerate, but the born again. "Born again" means something entirely different to me than it does to Behold. To him, if they commit murder, it isn't sin because the born again can't commit sin, because they are not under the law. If there is no law, there is no...

He can say whatever he likes, I will still preach the truth calmly. And I fear for @marks because he says he and @Behold are on the same page. But I see a huge difference in the two men's beliefs. At least marks doesn't believe that murder is no longer a sin because we are not under the law. But...

I teach Paul. Works of the flesh are sins. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! 16 Do you not know that...

You seem to be saying that now that we are Christians, committing sins are not called sins anymore, but acts of the flesh and don't count against us. It is the common, but erroneous teaching that our past, present and future sins are forgiven.

It is because it is the most common willful sin of Christians, and why sexual sins are the most warned about in the New Testament.

Wrong, you are way above the context. I know you want to save your man-made doctrine of OSAS, but I'm afraid we still have free will. 2 Peter 1: 2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to...

Romans 8: 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the...

Not the body; what Paul calls the flesh is our nature. "We are not in the flesh but in the Spirit..." Romans 8: 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. 10 And if Christ is in...

A lot of Cessationists say the same thing about those with the gifts of the Holy Spirit today.

The description of this sin you are saying is if you die, having rejected Christ, there is no pardon, so we can't pray for someone who is dead to be saved. That is not this sin. We can always pray for the unsaved until it is too late for them - death. Look at Jeffrey Dahmer. He is saved and in...

I doubt I could say it better. We are freed from our past sin, and empowered to be sinless going forward.

I can't help it if you can't see it. Seeing as the man didn't die according to the next epistle, your definition is very wrong, and the next chapter also says that repentance leads to salvation - the true purpose of turning one over for the destruction of their flesh - their unsaved carnal...

Well, I certainly hope you are correct, but please believe me when you make a short statement without context, it can be interpreted a number of different ways from truth to outright easy-greasy grace. So, please don't leave anything to false interpretation. I KNOW you are a man of God, and I...

ignored.

Here is my earlier response #27 to the same verses. Giving the sinning believers "up to Satan" is the same as shunning that the Amish do. The only way this person can be saved is if they repent. That is the purpose of shunning. It's a "wake up call." If they die in their sins, their soul is NOT...

James said it best. 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. So, marks, James said, your faith alone will not save you. This error you've made regarding the works of the law has translated into shunning the teaching of obedience. How many people have believed you...

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Legalism would be relying on circumcision to save you. Don't you know that people listen to what you say, and if you don't explain it is the "works of the law" that won't save us, and they go on fornicating, you are accountable for that?

@marks Why is there an "AND" (meaning more than one) in the list of His commandments? 1 John 3:23-24

You have quoted that about works many times, so you don't have a grasp on the specific outward works Paul is talking about. Circumcision, keeping holy days, only eating clean meat.