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Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple
This is the very thing I feel makes this topic so serious. Most DO NOT understand that anyone who is not without spot and blameless is going to be cast into Hell!
So if one KNOWS they DO have some sin in their life or groups of sins should they not be fully focused on repenting and overcoming them? I mean I see this is NOT optional.
Jesus is coming for a Church like this:
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. Eph. 5:25-27
Isnt it right for us to exhort and admonish each other to walk this way? |
MTD, what is your definition of perfection? Since... questions are being asked
BTW... I agree with what you said above. I think we are on the same page, albeit with perhaps some different terminology.
We must not think too carelessly that once we have the spirit of Christ within us that we are automatically perfected. No, it is a progressive work in motion, and something that we continue to work on.
I don't see perfection as something that happens one day, and then you never have to face any sin, temptations, struggles, or battles again. I just don't see that in scripture.
I do see admonishment to continue the fight of faith though. I do see the overwhelming majority of NT scriptures admonishing believers how to pull off the sin holds in their lives. That is why, I don't believe perfection is a one-time event that happens that we never have to worry about it again. It is an ongoing thing that will not be completed until we attain our glorified bodies.
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