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(1 Thess 1:4) says, "Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God." This is not indicating you elect God. It is speaking of your election that is from God. Just as Paul says later in (2 Thess. 2:13) "...give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth." Just as he said also in (Eph. 1:4). "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:"
As you can see from these verses I do consider both parties. God has chosen us first, from the foundation of the world. We still come into that salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. But God's choosing is first. We will come because God has chosen.
Again, I never said your sin wasn't covered. Thus you missed the point in trying to point out your sin is covered. Though your sin is covered does not mean God doesn't know when you sin. He does. This is why there is need for him to chastise us at times. If He never saw the sin, He could see no reason for our punishment. Just because one is born-again, doesn't mean they don't sin.
God has not forgiven all your sins. He has paid for all your sins. Because He has paid for them all, He can forgive you as you sin as a believer, but He expects you to come to Him and confess your sins, and then He is faithful and just to forgive your sins. If you don't come to him when you sin, and you do sin, though you like to pretend you do not, then He doesn't forgive them and judgement will follow.
Again, your body is not born-again. Your body is still that inherited from Adam. Which is why it will die. Your body is still a body of sin. If it wasn't a body of sin, then it would not die. The reason your body returns to dust is because it is full of sin. It has to die. If you acknowledge your body will return to dust then you must acknowledge your body is full of sin. You can't have it both ways.
When you say you sin no more, you are lying to God and yourself.
Stranger
(1 Thess 1:4) says, "Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God." This is not indicating you elect God. It is speaking of your election that is from God. Just as Paul says later in (2 Thess. 2:13) "...give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth." Just as he said also in (Eph. 1:4). "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:"
As you can see from these verses I do consider both parties. God has chosen us first, from the foundation of the world. We still come into that salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. But God's choosing is first. We will come because God has chosen.
Again, I never said your sin wasn't covered. Thus you missed the point in trying to point out your sin is covered. Though your sin is covered does not mean God doesn't know when you sin. He does. This is why there is need for him to chastise us at times. If He never saw the sin, He could see no reason for our punishment. Just because one is born-again, doesn't mean they don't sin.
God has not forgiven all your sins. He has paid for all your sins. Because He has paid for them all, He can forgive you as you sin as a believer, but He expects you to come to Him and confess your sins, and then He is faithful and just to forgive your sins. If you don't come to him when you sin, and you do sin, though you like to pretend you do not, then He doesn't forgive them and judgement will follow.
Again, your body is not born-again. Your body is still that inherited from Adam. Which is why it will die. Your body is still a body of sin. If it wasn't a body of sin, then it would not die. The reason your body returns to dust is because it is full of sin. It has to die. If you acknowledge your body will return to dust then you must acknowledge your body is full of sin. You can't have it both ways.
When you say you sin no more, you are lying to God and yourself.
Stranger
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