No - what YOU have done is reject the revealed truth of God that has been the constant living belief of His Church for 2000 years because it because YOU lacked the faith to believe it.
My belief does not depart from what the church has believed about the Trinity for the past 2,000 years. It does not contradict any of the creeds. But it does add understanding about the Oneness of the Lord in the context of His three-ness.
John is making the statement about sin - period.
No kidding...and the statement he is making about sin is that as an element it indwells all of us...not that it is inevitable but that we will continue to commit it in this life. Otherwise the command to repent is null and void...because no one can repent, since they must again sin at some point in the near future.
And in Rom. 7, Paul details the effects of this sin in his own - and ALL of our lives.
Here, he is talking about sin that dwells within him:
Rom. 7:13-14
Did the good, then, become death for me? Of course not! Sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin, worked death in me through the good, so that sin might become sinful beyond measure through the commandment.
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold into slavery to sin.
Now HERE’s the part where he admits to stumbling in sin – as we ALL do:
Rom. 7:15
WHAT I DO, I do not understand. For I do not do what I want, BUT I DO WHAT I HATE.
Romans 7:14 is the beginning of the passage. Paul identifies himself as carnal in order to define carnality. He sets forth his own life as carnal, in the rest of Romans 7:14-25, although he himself is not carnal...otherwise he could not be an author of holy scripture...2 Peter 1:21.
You are WRONG when you arrogantly claim that you do NOT sin because the Apostles themselves admit to stumbling.
I don't claim that I, personally, do not sin...my claim is that I don't sin at any given moment that I am abiding in Jesus Christ...1 John 3:6.
Furthermore –
James, speaking to
BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS says the following:
James 5:16
Therefore, CONFESS YOUR SINS to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful.
Your arrogant claim is nothing short of
counterfeit quasi-Christianity.
It actually says to confess your
faults one to another...and this scripture may actually be a step that a man takes in order to become born again. Because James, and other books of holy scripture, apply to unbelievers as well as believers. They may be written to believers; but their application is to all; since the authors understand that there are unbelievers who will come underneath the teaching of what they would write.
We are forgiven
ONLY when we repent. the Bible is
FILLED with warnings to converted, born again Christians to
NOT fall back into a life of
willful sin or they may
LOSE their security:
Romans 11:22
“See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity toward those who fell, but God's kindness to you, provided you REMAIN in his kindness; otherwise you to will be cut off.”
Paul is warning the faithful to REMAIN in God’s favor or they will lose their salvation. How can they lose what they never had?
Hebrews 10:26-27
“If we sin deliberately AFTER receiving KNOWLEDGE of the truth, there no longer remains sacrifice for sins but a fearful prospect of judgment and a flaming fire that is going to consume the adversaries.”
This is a clear warning that falling away from God will result in the loss of our salvation. The Greek ford for “knowledge” used here is NOT the usual word (oida). This is talking about a full, experiential knowledge (epignosei). This verse is about CHRISTIANS who had an EPIGNOSIS of Christ and who can fall back into darkness and LOSE their salvation by their own doing.
2 Peter 2:20-22
For if they, having escaped the defilements of the world through the KNOWLEDGE of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ, again become entangled and overcome by them, their last condition is worse than their first.
For it would have been better for them not to have KNOWN the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment handed down to them.
Here, Peter illustrates that those who had a full, experiential knowledge (epignosei) of Christ – CHRISTIANS – who can fall back into darkness and LOSE their salvation by their own doing.
Rev. 3:5
He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels.
God cannot blot out a name that was never there in the first place. He is talking about CHRISTIANS who are already saved and how they can LOSE their salvation.
If anyone has a living and saving faith (a heart faith that is unto righteousness, Romans 10:10, as opposed to a nominal, lukewarm, or shallow faith, Luke 8:13), then they have everlasting life (John 5:24, John 6:47, John 10:27-30) because they have an everlasting faith (Ephesians 1:13-14, 2 Corinthians 1:22, 2 Corinthians 5:5, 1 Peter 1:5).
The Pope is not "worshiped".
I should hope not! For if anyone did worship the Pope, they would be in everlasting condemnation according to Revelation 14:9-11.
Worship of ANYBODY or ANYTHING other than Almighty God is strictly forbidden by the 1st Commandment - as well as the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
However, the Pope is Christ's physical representative on the earth according to Catholic doctrine. Therefore, I wouldn't put it past the Catholic Church to at some point say that if you worship the Pope you are in effect worshiping Christ.
For they did the same with the Jesus cookie.
