1Jo 2:1-2
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
And he is the propitiation for our sins…..
This is better because you can see it is the same a John 3:16, most people's first memory verse as a child.
1 John 2:1-2 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. 2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but
also for the whole world.
Guilt is expiated with genuine sincere repentance. (But not if we were to keep on sinning knowingly and deliberately, because God will not be mocked. Someone who keeps on wilfully sinning when they have it in their power not to is trampling on the blood of Christ and treating it as an unholy thing........they are not being sincere and God knows it and will not be made a fool of....He will not allow His grace to be abused.)
Yes, I agree.
The bible says All things HAVE been put under the feet of Jesus, but we do not yet see all things put under Him. So there is a "yes, but not necessarily yet" to these things. Our old man HAS been crucified and yet we, or at least most of us, are still having to contend with our old man in some respect or other. Even though the devil was defeated at the cross, he still goes around seeking who he may devour.
If you are Protestant then you probably have not been taught the two types of sin that God's people have known for about 3,500 years. The "old man" only had to do with the worst type of sin called sins unto death. In other words, they broke commandments of God and were stoned to death when under the Law. This type of sin should not be anything you have to contend with if you are born again. As I've told you I committed a sin unto death after having gone to church for 30 years. So you see, I'm living proof that there are many people committed to going to church who have never been born again. And they are who I target in my teachings. I think the greater the sin you were committing, the more you know when you've experienced being born again. For me it was like night and day. It was extreme.
The born again, miraculously saved apostle Paul whose whole life was consecrated to the Lord still testified that "In me, that is in my flesh, dwells no good thing." And this is why we need to undergo the chastisements of the Lord......to put the flesh under and take more ground with respect to our lives/hearts.....and even our fruitful branches the Lord prunes to make them more fruitful. Different people are given different gifts and graces in the beginning when they come to faith in Christ....I think no one of us should assume that everyone's experience is the same as ours.
No, you are wrong about Paul. Acts 23:21 ?Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council, said, “Men
and brethren,
I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.” Liz, even when he was jailing Christians, he did it in good conscience. I'm sure you've wrote that because of someone preacher, or not knowing that Romans 7:14-25 was life under the Law of Moses in the Old Testament. Paul was most concerned that from what he was writing, someone would think he was saying there had been something wrong with God's Law when he had been under it. Paul also wrote this with the personal pronoun "I" like John writing "we" in 1 John 1. This eastern style of writing that the Apostles wrote in, can confuse the western mindset. And many false doctrines about sin have been taught by post-Apostlic church fathers, and the Reformation even went further with the corruption of the gospel and claiming "sin is sin." That is not true. God didn't change. But some of His laws did because they were fulfilled in Christ.
When he wrote Romans 7:18, He was an Apostle of Jesus Christ. He was not under the law anymore as he was as a Pharisee (which is what he was describing and writing to) as in the first verse of chapter 7, it was those who know the law and had lived under it before trusting in Jesus that he wanted to impress on them the importance of believing there was nothing wrong with God's law, but our sin nature that Jesus has crucified, and it has been raised again clean. Now the only sins we as born again human beings is our human nature filled with the Spirit of Christ who do not willfully sin as you said. 1 John 1:7 shows us that when born again of the Spirit we should now be walking in the light...and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. It should say, all sin that is left, for it does NOT cleanse sins unto death, now only sins not unto death we naturally commit unintentionally while Jesus finishes the work He started.
