ScottA
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In order to answer and have it actually understood, one needs to understand God. Most people look at everything through the lens of their own life perspective and that of the created world--which is not at all the correct way to understand the things of God and the kingdom of God wherein there is no sin--it's totally out of context, and therefore full of error.would it be a fair statement to say you can be in sin no matter and still be saved? lets say a homosexual was saved then went right back into his same sexual encounters // i am just using this as a example. this is why the opposition to eternal security. our salvation is secure but with out repentance is that salvation..?
What actually occurs when salvation comes to a person living in the world is, in the twinkling of an eye they go from being of the world to not being of the world. Thus Paul addressed the exception to the Old Testament understanding that says that salvation only comes after death, to include what happens when salvation comes according to the New Testament way of being born again while in the flesh and in the world--referring to the status of such people as "we who are alive and remain." Meaning, such a person "has (past tense) passed from death to life", that is from existing only in time, to also existing in eternity, while remaining in the world, but no longer be of the world. And if you can follow all that--it means salvation is finished, because time is finished with the person being "in God" from that very moment. The time then that such people experience after salvation--is just as it is written, "it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me." Who then can call Christ as sinner and be correct? No one, but one who is anti-Christ.
But I said, "If you can follow all that." If one cannot follow all that, it is because God has not revealed it to them--which is to say that the Holy Spirit is restrained because of unbelief, and grieved. Such people remain without understanding by their own limitations, prisoners of their own making--believing rather that God who has said many things about salvation being according to the "I am" nature of God, instead believe all that is written of those who do not believe, which is also written...because they are many.
As for sins witnessed by those who are saved--everything leading up to the salvation of Christ which came not at the beginning or the end of times is covered forward just as it is covered backward. But again, if one does not understand God, it will not seem so, for they have yet to come to terms with the idea that God is "the same yesterday, today, and forever", and that when He comes bringing salvation to one at any point in history--it is the same, it is finished.
As for homosexual sin or any other sin after salvation, one goes from loving sin to loving God and hating sin; and when and if God has decided that such a person is to remain alive in the flesh to host Christ in him, he is carried to the finish by the power of God in Christ. On the other hand, if such a one continues to love sin--he is not saved, for no one who loves God loves sin.
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