And the people who teach Sin-Perfection, what are they all about?
Allowing sin and condemning the righteous?
Beware:
“Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin… In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil” (1 John 3:9-10)
It has EVERYTHING to do with it!
So according to you, only those who have lived a sinless, without fault or defect, flawless, absolute perfect life 100% of the time (exactly as Jesus lived) from the moment they are born again to the end of their life on earth is a child of God and everyone else is a child of the devil? Those who believe so are suffering from a terminal case of self righteousness.
Luke 18:9 -
Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God,
I thank You that
I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. 12
I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that
I possess.’ 13 And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying,
‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ 14 I tell you,
this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” *That's a lot of
"I" with the Pharisee. Sound familiar? Let that sink in.*
1 John 3:9 -
No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. (NASB)
1 John 3:9 -
No one born (begotten) of God [deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin, for God’s nature abides in him [His principle of life, the divine sperm, remains permanently within him]; and he cannot practice sinning because he is born (begotten) of God. (AMPC)
Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament
1 John 3:9
Doeth no sin (αμαρτιαν ου ποιε). Linear present active indicative as in verse 1 John 3:4 (NAS) like αμαρτανε in verse 1 John 3:8 (NAS)
The child of God does not have the habit of sin.
His seed (σπερμα αυτου). God's seed, "the divine principle of life" (Vincent). Cf. 1 John 3:1 (NAS)
And he cannot sin (κα ου δυνατα αμαρτανειν). This is a wrong translation, for this English naturally means "and he cannot commit sin" as if it were κα ου δυνατα αμαρτειν or αμαρτησα (second aorist or first aorist active infinitive). The present active infinitive αμαρτανειν can only mean "and he cannot go on sinning," as is true of αμαρτανε in verse 1 John 3:8 and αμαρτανων as in 1 John 3:6. For the aorist subjunctive to commit a sin see αμαρτητε and αμαρτη in 1 John 2:1.
A great deal of false theology has grown out of a misunderstanding of the tense of αμαρτανειν here. Paul has precisely John's idea in Romans 6:1 επιμενωμεν τη αμαρτια (shall we continue in sin, present active linear subjunctive) in
contrast with αμαρτησωμεν in Romans 6:15 (shall we commit a sin, first aorist active subjunctive).
1 John 3 - Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament - Bible Commentaries - StudyLight.org
1 John 1:8 - If we
say that we have no sin, (present tense)
we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10
If we say that we have not sinned, (past tense)
we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
1 John 2:1 - My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin.
And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.