@ScottA
1John 1:5-10 is NOT about Born Again people stumbling in sin!
The message is a Declaration to people ...the teacher hopes they comprehend So that:
The listener may believe Like the one speaking...
1 John 1
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3] That which we have seen and heard
declare we unto you,
that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
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4] And these things write we unto you, that your
joy may be full.
[
5] This then is
the message which we have heard of him, and
declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
The listeners were not born Again...they were hearing the message.
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6] If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
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7] But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
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8] If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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9] If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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10] If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
And 1 John 8:
A fav of BOL to cherry-pick and proclaim it APPLIES to whomever...
He hasn't a clue the difference between "having" sin and "committing" sin.
"Having" sins applies to every natural born earthling, including Mary.
Every diligent student of the Word of God Knows earthlings Are born in Sin.
1John 1:8
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8] If we say that we
have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Any person who says he HAS no sin, is a liar!
Rom 3:23
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23] For all have sinned...
Any person who claims he HAS Never
committed sin is a liar.
So what is a person who Makes False Claims for "others", but a liar?
Mary never. Claimed to "have" no sin...
Mary never Claimed to never "commit" sin...
yet every catholic "makes" those claims for her.<---
The Lord God has offered A WAY...His Way,
Offered and Available immediately for the last 2,000 + years...
*for a mans sins to be Forgiven;
*for a mans body crucified, washed, sanctified, covered, Kept with Christ;
* for a mans soul restored and saved;
* for a mans spirit born of Gods Seed...
* from the moment of a heartfelt true Confession BY any man that:
"Jesus is the Christ the Son of the Living God",
That man Accepted and Received The Lord Gods Offering...and Is a new Creature...
And that creature IS forward: forever:
A son of God.
Oh, oh, oh what happened to "the sin he had when he was naturally born???
DUH!!!
Crucifixion ...DEAD body...DEAD sin!!
Covered...with Gods Light.
Funny how BOL thinks he can See pasts Gods Light!
And absolutely a "son of God" never again "commits the sin" "of Standing against God, of Disbelief in the Lord God Almighty"....
1 John 3:
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9] Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
So what "sin" does BOL yap on and on about...?
If a man was Jewish...every Violation Against Mosaic Law was a sin....but so what?
Why does BOL pretend Gentile's are subject to Mosaic Laws?
Gentile's had no obligation to obey Jewish Laws...
Gentile's SIN, was being against belief in God in Jesus the Christ...
And WHO could forgive a Gentile...of the Sin of Disbelief IN the Lord God...no one, but God Himself.
And "Could" Converted Jews "still violate" "their Law" and that be a Sin unto "them"...
Yes...and what does that have to do with Gentiles? Nothing.
And so is BOL utterly ignorant not knowing he is carrying on to Gentiles, that which only applies to Jews?
A Converted Gentile, can never Again not believe in the Lord God Almighty.
(even if BOL adamantly disagrees with Scriptural TRUTH), no one was directed to Believe or follow him!)
A Converted Jew, can never Again not believe in the Lord God Almighty; but they can violate Jewish Law, which by the Law is a sin unto THEM.