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1. We are saved from past sins and then empowered to not sin through grace? 2. We are positionally saved from sin in advance since no one can ever stop sinning while in the present bodies? Sin is no longer an issue? 3. We must try really hard to stop sinning by our own efforts? Which option...

I don't hold to what is presented as any tradition. I believe they have all been corrupted. We need to look to the Spirit and the word and to measure our traditions through the biblical text. We cannot ask people to just trust men and what they have come up with. We are to test ALL things and...

The vanity lies in the ignoring of the scriptures in order to reduce the gospel to something we can already relate to from past experience. Doing this cements in the lack of growth and discovery of the power that sets one free. We are in a war. And there is great delusion out there. I am trying...

What kind of doctrine is this? If Jesus rejects someone, the lady Mary cannot help him. Why has this discussion turned into a discussion about Mary? Mary is a sister like any other sister. She is not the mother of God. She is the mother of Jesus of Nazareth, The rest is superstition and plain...

Yes I have. So what is John getting at?

But is there power from Jesus to destroy sin...not just cover it up?

Is there presently a deliverance from sin?

So you have Mary as a mediator between us and the Mediator Jesus Christ? Wouldn't Mary get too busy with so many praying to her? So who will mediate for Mary? Actually the idea of Mary has replaced the Holy Spirit in truth. It is the Holy Spirit that intercedes for those who are already in HIS...

We must believe...that is the work we must do!

Blessings to all! :)

1Jn 3:3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. 1Jn 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 1Jn 3:5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. 1Jn 3:6...

Here is a question that seeks to reveal the true direction of the people here on this forum. What say you!

If I say to someone...Do all sin? ...for instance....someone could say...You said all sin! So Richard is trying to obscure my challenge to his position as an assault on his words. Th If this is a discussion forum and I can question his teachings can I not? I use rhetorical questioning to...

This is what is being preached nowadays. It is the opposite of the way of God.

You are saying that the Spirit is powerless against the almighty flesh! You have made the flesh to be all-powerful! Seems to me that only God is all powerful and that He has provided the means to overcome sin through that power. Is the Spirit not sufficient to animate us after our flesh has...

God has chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise.

You claim righteousness for yourself? Hmm...who else did that?

Does sin make Christ's atonement more useful? We should sin to make Jesus' death have more meaning?

HAve you considered that God equips those He called to actually BE holy...not just tolerate them? Only then is both mercy AND truth satisfied. Think about it. There is a new heaven and a new earth coming. :)

There seems to be a lot of this type of reasoning going around! :blink: Justifying our own sins is as bad as being obsessed with them.