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No, it means what scripture says "without the law" means. Sin was not imputed to man until after the law was given on Mount Sinai to the Jews. Only with the Law was there a knowledge of sin, so your saying he did not know doesn't matter. The punishment of the law still applied, thus death. "I...

This is why we must be born again of the Spirit. IOW our nature must change. This we cannot do on our own, no matter how much we struggle as the person Paul talks of in Romans 7. But when the Holy Spirit indwells us, our old nature is overshadowed by the divine nature of Christ, and our desires...

Yes, but it would be a daily evaluation. Do what Paul did; go to bed with a totally clear conscience. And, of course, if God agrees with your assessment, He answers your prayers. 18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 19 And by this we know that...

We agreed for a long time; then I noticed we came to things where we didn't, but that's not unusual, as I am not in a denomination and my beliefs are primarily my own with the help of the Spirit of Truth. A few years ago, I prayed and asked God to teach me the one interpretation of His word that...

@David Taylor sees that I have taught both ways, and he's right. @Episkopos and I have both reached partaking of the divine nature, but as a teacher, there are some that haven't even added virtue to their faith yet, let alone to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control...

Yes, when you let it get past temptation for any length of time. Don't let it. "Resist the devil and he will flee."

What are you calling your daily experience? Are you dying to self everyday? Have you repented and been baptized in the Holy Spirit to walk in? Have you taken these steps: add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance...

I've never contradicted myself. As I said, I know what the Word says, and I know what I'm saying.

John is writing TO Christians, but some verses are not ABOUT Christians. Don't you know this was to his congregation, part of which were made up of Gnostics who were infiltrating the church (1 John 4:1-3). This epistle was to them also.

Repentance is certainly not in your wheelhouse is it. Today you claimed I never taught the difference in sins. Then I showed you our posts from weeks ago, and you still hold your ground as if you are NOT standing on quicksand. You are even treating Episkopos like dirt. You are in the wrong...

Yes, it seems to be present tense, but was Paul actually claiming to be over 1300 years old? He is not talking about himself, but mankind. Read Romans 7:9. He would have been alive before Moses received the law!

I didn't contradict myself. I KNOW what I'm saying. You have a habit of shooting first, and asking questions later. You have a hair trigger temper that is sorely lacking in the fruit of the Spirit, especially for someone who is even a junior pastor.

Do you see yourself, David? This was from our discussion weeks ago.

I teach the difference; you don't.

I'm saying that 1 John 1:9 is to BECOME a Christian. We are cleansed of every type of sin there is - Jesus blood is that powerful. He then gives us His sinless Spirit to walk in. So if we willfully sin afterwards, say steal or the married pastor runs off with his secretary, Jesus is NOT...

What excuse does an accuser of the brethren need?

I told you that weeks ago, but you didn't believe it then, so you don't remember it now. What I have said is we don't commit willful sins. But still I try not to commit trespasses either, but with devils its impossible to not want to shake some sense into them. You know, turn over some tables...

You are combining two scriptures that do not go together. It should be 1 John 1:9, 1 John 1:7, then 1 John 2:1 which cleanses 1 John 1:7. 1 John 1:9 is ALL sin. That includes murder, and other sins of lawlessness. 1 John 3:4-5. When we first come to Christ He takes away all our sin, and there...

No I haven't. How soon you forget there are trespasses that I've said a Christian will still commit, but if we forgive each other our trespasses, and work on the fruit of the Spirit, the Father will forgive us our trespasses automatically. If we don't forgive others, neither will God forgive us...

Then look at it this way. If you say you are a Christian but do not have the Spirit to keep you from sinning, and you continue to walk in the flesh and sin - the wages of sin is death. Those who walk in the flesh can never please God. Those who continue to sin are a slave to sin. And those who...