1. When you contradict Scripture using Scripture, that is proof you're misunderstanding Scripture.I have posted scripture...Gods word...it can’t be denied as it’s His truth..
We make sense of scripture in the spirit not in our own human understanding..as the Bible is a spiritual Book and needs to be understood in our spirit...
The reason I didn't pursue it is because now you're going to have to go back and prove, from the context of Romans 14:23, that the person spoken of as having sinned is not a believer--ie, the same thing CadyandZoe has been failing to do for dozens and dozens of responses (and you're not as skilled as CadyandZoe, so I didn't want to see you floudering around even worse than CadyandZoe).
2. Also, we know, from your own context, that you're misreading:
1 John 2
1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2He Himself is the atoning sacrificea for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
Why do "we have an advocate with the Father"?
Because "we never sin"?
No, because "if anyone does sin".
Now, you say "no we never sin", so you're contradicting John, and saying either "we do not have an Advocate with a Father" (since we don't need one), or, maybe, "we have an Advocate with the Father, but we don't really need Him, because we never sin". Either way, it's obvious you are clueless.
3. John was militating against Gnosticism, which taught that all matter was sinful, therefore:
a) Jesus didn't incarnate, and
b) We will go on sinning gross sins as long as we are alive
So, John says "any spirit that confesses Christ has come in the flesh is of God", but we have a problem with interpreting that in an "across the board" fashion, like you're trying to do with his other anti-Gnosticism teaching: the Galatians were led away from God by a false Gospel, a "doctrine of demons" (1 Ti 4:1), that did not come from God (Gal 5:8), yet, in that "doctrine of demons", there is never any denial of Christ having incarnated.
Options:
1. John is wrong to say "every spirit that confesses Christ came in the flesh is of God".
2. John intended that statement "every spirit that confesses Christ came in the flesh is of God" specifically with regard to repudiating Gnosticism--not to be taken and applied across the board.
Since it is obvious John didn't make a mistake, and John only intended to denounce Gnosticism, AND He says we have an Advocate with the Father IF WE SIN, AND Romans 14:23 says believers sin, AND Revelation 2 and 3 records Jesus calling the Churches the repentance, AND 1 Corinthians has Paul calling the Church to repentance, your abuse of John's teaching, "anyone who is born of God doesn't sin" is repudiated--beside the fact that it doesn't say "doesn't sin", but "doesn't go on sinning", we can know that it wasn't intended to be taken and applied across the board (any more than "every spirit that confesses Christ came in the flesh is of God" can be), but that, even if it did say what you claim, it was specifically meant as a repudiation of Gnosticism.
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