I HAVE NOT READ THIS THREAD...HOWEVER my thoughts are it is impossible to live a sinless life while we are still in this flesh however we can repent often and live right with God...does that make sense?
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I HAVE NOT READ THIS THREAD...HOWEVER my thoughts are it is impossible to live a sinless life while we are still in this flesh however we can repent often and live right with God...does that make sense?
You should read it. It's "only" 120+ posts, and it's all interesting.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
I HAVE NOT READ THIS THREAD...HOWEVER my thoughts are it is impossible to live a sinless life while we are still in this flesh however we can repent often and live right with God...does that make sense?
Your preaching to the choir, my dear.
you might have to watchout.....your going to be ruffling some feathers and get stuck in a pew with me CJ, Aquilla and Tim-may.
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1 Timothy 4:9-10
9This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
10For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
The ability to be sinless is not predicated on whether any man actually is or will be. It's a potential thing. Men have the potential to be sinless. It's something that I doubt will ever happen though.
If man has the potential to be sinless, who has achieved that potential? And if no man can... it really can't be considered a "potential". A potential is something that can indeed be accomplished.
If there is a potential for man to live a sinless life, why did Jesus die for us? We would not need Jesus' death if that were the case.
__________________ ...MY THOUGHTS, ANYWAY.
"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
As far as I'm concerned, only one person who walked this earth could make the claim to be sinless.... Jesus. Not even believers receiving the HG. We received the HG, but we never stopped being human. I'm not trying to justify sin at all.......I'm just trying to put things into perspective and be real, if we could be sinless I guess you'd say you don't need an advocate after all......
Someone else on another thread alluded to be sinless ever since receiving the HG.....I asked them 3 times in the thread if they'd directly admit to being perfectly sinless since recieving the HG as they'd alluded to, and they wouldn't respond. I'm not a hippocrate and I wish everyone the best in their walk........
but only one was truly capable of a sinless life imho.
One of the issues I have with the notion of man being able to be sinless is exactly that, we wouldn't need Jesus. The notion really puts the focus on man and man's ability... not Christ's redemptive work upon the cross. Show me a man who thinks he's sinless or can be and I'll show you a man who's performance is the center of his faith. Show me a man who admits to never being able to be sinless and I'll show you a man who's focused upon the cross and Christ's redemptive performance.
I've often looked at it like this... we're sinless... in Christ. Christ's righteousness is imputed to us. Not that we can be sinless just as he was once we receive the Holy Ghost, but judicially God has dropped all charges and declared us sinless according to the Law... Jesus paid it all for every sin committed, currently being struggled with, and every sin that we will commit. Jesus paid it all. It is "finished". Done.
I HAVE NOT READ THIS THREAD...HOWEVER my thoughts are it is impossible to live a sinless life while we are still in this flesh however we can repent often and live right with God...does that make sense?
I think that is a thought that is the result of not getting the message of Romans 6 through 8, personally. IOW, the struggle Paul showed in Chapter 7s was a struggle he said occurs only when one does not know how to walk after the Spirit. I do not believe Paul actually had that struggle as though he told us this struggle will never see us live without sinning.
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"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
But on the flip side, while I believe we are sinners saved by grace and will sin, we are not in bondage to sin. Sin is something that can be overcome and not rule our lives even if we sin on occasion.
But we have yet to define "sin". I've heard people say that sin is "missing the mark". What is the mark? What is the standard God expects all of mankind to live by?
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