Holy means to be set apart for service to God.In a person, holy means pure.
What Is The Biblical Definition Of Holy?
Hmmm. I'm afraid Ive forgotten to what you're replying.The reason why some Christians struggle with sin, meaning they desire to sin, is because they are still in the flesh, meaning carnal nature and has nothing to do with our bodies as some think. Oy vey! Romans 8:9 says we are NOT IN THE FLESH but in the Spirit if the Spirit of God indwells us. And if we do not have the Spirit of Christ we do not belong to him. So you see it can't be about being out of our body or after we die.
Romans 8:9 is saying that we are not in the body, inasmuch as we no longer desire to please ourselves but our God.
Those of us who welcome God into our lives have our minds set on the Spirit which is life...verse 7
Those of us who have our minds set on the flesh are hostile to God, we cannot please God and this leads to death...verses 6, 7 and 8.
I don't know what you mean about being out of our body (which we never are) or about after death.
Sin is intentional or it is not a sin.Yes, the sin Jesus takes away from our nature is lawlessness. So to commit lawlessness is committing a sin unto death, and Jesus is not our Advocate. But you see at the end of 1 John 1:7, that is where Jesus is our Advocate, but first we must show that we living in reconciliation with the brethren. IOW, forgive those who trespass against us. The our own unintentional sins will be forgiven. Unintentional sins are sins, but not a sin unto death, but called a sin not unto death; 1 John 5:16-17.
And you're right about lawlessness - which shows that 1 John 3:4 is speaking of PRACTICING sin....
Here's the verse in the NASB:
1 John 3:4
Everyone who PRACTICES sin also practices LAWLESSNESS, and sin is lawlessness.
So we can agree that lawlessness is the practicing of sinful behavior.
I agree to this.You'll know if you have been baptized with the Holy Spirit or not, because you won't want to do anything wrong. You've been given a super-sensitized conscience where the laws of God are written. Just knowing the laws and trying to keep them with a carnal nature in opposition to the laws of God is not enough even if you know about Jesus. Even Satan knows about Jesus, but doesn't follow Him. A sinner is not following Jesus. And John 8:32-36 shows that those who sin are a slave to sin, and you are correct, lawlessness. The context of 1 John 3:5 is 1 John 3:4 - "sin is lawlessness."
I could agree with the above. I'm not going to ask what you believe sanctification to be because there's already enough here.A sin not unto death is from immature fruit of the Spirit, not against the laws of God. The steps to glorification (that you call sanctification but entirely different) has to do with the fruit of the Spirit and found in 2 Peter 1:5-7 (but read in context 2-11). Let me know if there are any other questions you had that I didn't cover.