Are Christians sinners?

[TonyChanYT]

Is it natural for Christians to sin?

I don't think so. Not if you are growing in the Spirit. Christians still sin, but it is no longer natural for them to sin.

If one is born again, he has the Paraclete Spirit dwell in his human spirit. That's his new life from the Holy Spirit. Galatians 2:

20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

We have a new life in us. This is a spiritual reality.

2 Corinthians 5:

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

The new creation is the connection of the Holy Spirit with our human spirit. We did not have it before. No one did before Jesus' sacrifice on the Cross.

Eph 4:

22b put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Galatians 5:

24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Romans 6:

18 having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.

If you have trouble believing this, here is a warning in 1 Corinthians 2:

14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

In this case, try How to get closer to God and grow in faith.

Are Christians sinners?

That's a matter of definition.

Do Christians sin willingly?

Sometimes. But we always repent.

 

[Ronald Nolette]

Is it natural for Christians to sin?

I don't think so. Not if you are growing in the Spirit. Christians still sin, but it is no longer natural for them to sin.

If one is born again, he has the Paraclete Spirit dwell in his human spirit. That's his new life from the Holy Spirit. Galatians 2:


We have a new life in us. This is a spiritual reality.

2 Corinthians 5:


The new creation is the connection of the Holy Spirit with our human spirit. We did not have it before. No one did before Jesus' sacrifice on the Cross.

Eph 4:


Galatians 5:


Romans 6:


If you have trouble believing this, here is a warning in 1 Corinthians 2:


In this case, try How to get closer to God and grow in faith.

Are Christians sinners?

That's a matter of definition.

Do Christians sin willingly?

Sometimes. But we always repent.

I would say biblically we are no longer sinners. Sinners by biblical definition is a nature and we have the new nature. So we are saints who occasionally fall back to the wiles of our old nature and sin.

 

[Behold]

. Christians still sin,

1.) "Where there is no Law, there is no (sin) Transgression".

The Born again are : "Not under the Law, but under Grace".

All the born again are "made free from sin", having become "one with God" "In Christ".

2.) Why does this idea that a Believer has no sin, confuse so many Christians..?

Its because .. while they have Trusted in Christ, and are Redeemed by God because = "Their Faith is counted by God as (Christ's) Righteousness"... they dont fully understand what this means....

Notice.

3.) "God hath made JESUS to be SIN for us, so that we might become the Righteousness of GOD,,, In Him".

So, when you Trusted in Jesus, by Faith, .. God took your faith and accepted it... = to then give you "Christ's Righteousness" as "The GIFT of Righteousness".

4.) This is the {----Divine Exchange-----}, whereby Jesus became ALL your lifetime of sin, and God "imputed Christ's RIGHTEOUSNESS" to you, forever.

What does that actually mean ?? as its some serious "christianese"...

5.) It means that the very Life that Christ lived under the Law, that was holy, sinless, and perfectly obedient,... is given to you, (The Gift of Salvation).... as if you did it, as if you lived it..... And your sinful life, becomes "God hath made Jesus to be SIN for Us"....
See that?
That is the .. .- Divine Exchange" or .. "The Great Exchange" as some would explain it, also.
That's your SALVATiON. Thats your REDEMPTION. that is what it means to be "IN CHRIST" and "Christ in YOU"...

 

[Bob Estey]

Is it natural for Christians to sin?

I don't think so. Not if you are growing in the Spirit. Christians still sin, but it is no longer natural for them to sin.

If one is born again, he has the Paraclete Spirit dwell in his human spirit. That's his new life from the Holy Spirit. Galatians 2:


We have a new life in us. This is a spiritual reality.

2 Corinthians 5:


The new creation is the connection of the Holy Spirit with our human spirit. We did not have it before. No one did before Jesus' sacrifice on the Cross.

Eph 4:


Galatians 5:


Romans 6:


If you have trouble believing this, here is a warning in 1 Corinthians 2:


In this case, try How to get closer to God and grow in faith.

Are Christians sinners?

That's a matter of definition.

Do Christians sin willingly?

Sometimes. But we always repent.

We've all sinned, according to Jesus. The debate is whether or not we can stop sinning. The Lord told us to stop, so I believe we can.

 

[Wynona]

We've all sinned, according to Jesus. The debate is whether or not we can stop sinning. The Lord told us to stop, so I believe we can.

In agreement

 

[Gottservant]

My take on this is that "our desire to sin, clashes with our desire to take up our cross"

 

[Ernest T. Bass]

I see that the term sinner is used in at least 2 senses in the NT

1) all of us are a sinner in the sense that we will not live a flawless, perfect moral life.
2) sinner is also used in the present tense (1 Jn 3:8)...'he that committeth sin is of the devil' .....present tense 'committeth' refers to the person who sins and CONTINUES to sin unrepentantly. The Christian is one who has died to sin (Rom 6:2), who repents of the sins he does commit (Acts 8:22-24) thereby not CONTINUING in sin as the impenitent sinner.

While I am here on this topic, I will make note that the idea of "a sinner saved by grace" is NOT found in the NT. Romans 6:2 it was Christians to whom Paul was addressing therefore it is Christians who are saved by grace. Those sinners who first obediently comply to God's will,(baptized into Christ, v3) they then become Christians thereby receiving God's grace. Sinners who CONTINUE in sin, who CONTINUE to disobey and refuse to comply to God's will by being baptized into Christ are not Christians therefore fall short of receiving God's grace remaining condemned outside of God's grace, outside the body of Christ.

God's grace is never spoken of as being received by a sinner UNCONDITIONALLY while the sinner continues to live in disobedience to God's will.