Oh how you love straw man arguments. As long as you get to slander folks in the OSAS camp.
The Amplified version may help you to understand better. 1 John 3:9 - No one who is born of God [deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin, because God’s seed [His principle of life, the essence of His righteous character] remains [permanently] in him [who is born again—who is reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose]; and he [who is born again] cannot habitually [live a life characterized by] sin, because he is born of God and longs to please Him.
First of all
@Big Boy Johnson (like many others) do NOT understand what SIN IS.
OT, ISRAEL men were UNDER a LAW.
The LAW had many inclusions of mens negative behaviors (precepts) toward other men and personal behaviors that were CALLED sins.
(From not paying debts, to mixing fabrics, to sexual relations outside of marriage, taking an others property without permission, improper sin offerings and on and on)
The LAW was NOT “abolished”. The Law was “fulfilled”, IN Christ Jesus.
ANY man of Israel, has FREEWILL to continue UNDER the Law, or not.
Gentiles were never UNDER the Law, thus LAWS that were a SIN unto them, DID NOT, DOES NOT APPLY to Gentiles.
So what is an ISRAELITES SIN who is under the Law?
Any infraction under the Law, the Law called a Sin….and the SAME as a Gentiles SIN…
So WHAT is a Gentiles “SIN”? Unbelief in God and the One He Sent.
When any man Israel or Gentile…elects to Believe IN God and the One He Sent….
They are called IN Belief of the Lord God.
They are called DOING the WORKS of God…
Which is simply BELIEVING in the Lord God.
When any man Israel or Gentile…elects to CONFESS his Belief, and his Confession is from the True thoughts in his (HEART /natural spirit ie natural truth)….
They are called DOING a SERVICE unto God.
IT IS THEY, who receive the GIFTS of Gods Salvation, right then.
The works God does within that man are clearly reveals IN Scripture.
Bottom Line, Gods Spirit enters that mans new spirit and becomes that mans ULTIMATE…protector that NOTHING can draw that man back INTO the SIN of Unbelief AGAINST God…thus (1 John 3: 9 that man can NEVER SIN Again), as well Gods Spirit becomes the mans direct 24-7 “food” source, of feeding that man Gods TRUTHS, ways, understandings.
“Big Boy J” as well as many others are convinced men sin against men, and men (not UNDER Mosaic Law), have the authority to Forgive Sin.
Nothing what so ever in Scripture reveals a Gentile man Forgiving Sin.
The Jews Understood their own LAW of what men could and could not forgive.
Many Jews wanted to KILL Jesus, for TWO main reasons…
* He forgave men of their SIN of having HAD unbelief.
* He claimed He was the Son of God, which meant He was making Himself God, Because God does NOT birth men, and Jesus was sent, and seen in the likeness as a man.
Names and Titles men call themselves (and others), IS NOT the deciding factor IF a man IS or IS not sanctified.
And Once a man IS sanctified, to remotely imply God was fooled and has to REVERSE all His works in making a sanctified man a new creature, is utterly unBiblical and ridiculous on its face.
Glory to God,
Taken