It's the blood of the Lamb

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How fast this turned away from the blood of Jesus and all it represents to "works" again. Oh but the blood, let us not forget it cleanses us of all our unrighteousness (making me righteous in the eyes of God) - it defeats the enemy - it protects us - it purifies it.

Thank you so much Brad, for starting a thread on the awesomeness and power of the blood of Christ. May we all partake of His blood with joy.

Christ already did His part in man's salvation in shedding His blood so salvation now comes down to man doing his part.
Since it is a foregone fact that Christ shed His blood for every man (Heb 2:9) yet every man will not be saved, then the important part of the discussion is what must man do to take advantage of what Christ did for him on the cross.
 
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You are just as predictable as the other guy.

You throw reason out the window and allude to a verse in Isaiah as a proof text. You completely ignore the context of that verse and also ignore the clear sentiment expressed in the Bible as a whole.

The righteousness that is as filthy rags is the perceived righteousness of wicked people, not the servants of God.
Keep on believing that and trusting in yourself as Isaiah who is writing this included himself in the text......and I guess Paul was stupid or misinformed when he writes about being the number one chief sinner right before he looses his head in Rome for the cause of Christ...get over yourself dude.....if we say that we have no SIN (present tense) we are deceived and the truth is not in us....NOT A JUST MAN UPON THE EARTH THAT DOES GOOD and SINS NOT......does your righteousness exceed the PHARISEES...I think not...especially since you trust into yourself and our own righteousness!
 
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If Christ's perfect righteousness was in the believer then the believer would be as perfectly sinless as Christ.....but that's not the case, 1 Jn 1:8,10.
Again your ignorance of scripture fails to understand that it is the SPIRIT that is BORN of GOD and is SINLESS before GOD while being bound in a FALLEN sinful body that SINS regularly......keep trusting in your own abilities and works and you will be quite surprised one day soon for sure!
 
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I believe one of the most powerful words in the Bible is the Word "propitiation". This word means more than just sacrifice. It means the only acceptable sacrifice. By the grace of God he gave Himself as our sacrifice for our sins. Jesus being fully God and fully man gave His blood for us. But not only that, He rose from the dead and ascended to Heaven so that we could come back into the relationship with God we were intended for. Jesus, by His blood, conquered sin and death so we can be united with Him for eternity.
Amen, it is something the pharisees will never get unless they find some humility, they do not understand the law condemns us, because we can not obey the law in the way God demands (perfection) only one man did that, and that was Christ, As james says, we break even the least of Gods commands, we are guilty of the whole law. Which pronounces on us a term of death. Only the death of Christ can propitiate a God who has been sinned against,
 
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The LAST thing the enemy wants us to look at is the blood the Christ. For it is the power of God to all who believe. And He uses people to distract us away from this. And they all have other scripture to take us to. But it does trample underfoot the blood of Christ.

It was so important to Jesus that he took up the cup and said to "drink of his blood" often. Drink also in the sense of really taking it in and meditating on it - participating in the forgiveness it offered - the freedom - the healing.
Amen! Nothing ruins Satan's day more, than a person who falls at the feet of Christ, broken by their sin and repentant of their foolishness, asking the Lord Jesus to wash away their sin in His blood and for Him to come into their heart. Satan none too happy, but,

Luke 15:10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
 
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Again your ignorance of scripture fails to understand that it is the SPIRIT that is BORN of GOD and is SINLESS before GOD while being bound in a FALLEN sinful body that SINS regularly......keep trusting in your own abilities and works and you will be quite surprised one day soon for sure!
lol. I can not read what he posts anymore,

I gave up trying to reason with him also. waste of time.
 
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I believe one of the most powerful words in the Bible is the Word "propitiation". This word means more than just sacrifice. It means the only acceptable sacrifice. By the grace of God he gave Himself as our sacrifice for our sins. Jesus being fully God and fully man gave His blood for us. But not only that, He rose from the dead and ascended to Heaven so that we could come back into the relationship with God we were intended for. Jesus, by His blood, conquered sin and death so we can be united with Him for eternity.
The word Propitiation is translated from...

hilastērion
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Neuter of a derivative of G2433; an expiatory (place or thing), that is, (concretely) an atoning victim, or (specifically) the lid of the Ark (in the Temple): - mercyseat, propitiation.

We find the word used twice in the New Testament...

Rom 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

Heb 9:5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

Jesus Christ is the mediator between God and man for the purpose of reconciliation. Thus...

Heb 9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

Heb 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Jesus in effect purchased a people to reconciliation. We, as sinners, sold ourselves into condemnation and therefore forfeited our inheritance. It is through the purchase made by Jesus that we can be brought back into God's family via the marriage between the church and Jesus. The inheritance is redeemed in a similar manner as taught in the example of Ruth and Boaz where Kinsman Redeemer law was in effect...

Rth 4:10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.

In a similar manner we are redeemed from condemnation and our forfeited inheritance by DYING WITH CHRIST where our old man is crucified whereby we no longer have anything to do with that "present state" which was in rebellion to God. Instead we are BORN ANEW into Christ and as part of the church we become the bride of Him who has redeemed us.

Thus what actually happens is we enter into covenant with God which is sealed by the blood of Jesus. It is the blood of Jesus which enjoins us into covenant with God. We enter into this covenant by approaching God with a true heart (genuine repentance where the inward iniquity has been purged) and God is willing to forgive us our past sins.

The death of Christ has NOTHING to do with a legal transaction whereby ongoing wickedness is cloaked. Grace is not a license to sin but is rather the power of God to overcome sin.

We are warned in the Bible that no sacrifice remains if we willfully sin after being sanctified or set apart in this manner. This is because the cleansing is meant to be permanent not something we do over and over like the old animal sacrifice.

It is through the blood of Christ that our former sins are expiated or put away. He is the mercy seat offering made on our behalf. Jesus is our kinsman redeemer who was made like unto sinful flesh and overcame sin when in the flesh giving us an example to follow. Jesus also died and was raised from the dead and thus conquered even death itself. It is through Jesus Christ we are presented with the ministry of reconciliation, the world has been reconciled to God through the kinsman redeemer and now we all have the opportunity to be individually reconciled to God through Jesus Christ, through abiding in Him, through the Spirit of His life whereby we are made the righteousness of God in Him, the means by which we are made acceptable to God having been cleansed of our former crimes.

This is what the Bible clearly teaches. It is not what many people want to hear because there is comfort in numbers and comfort in what is familiar. The truth is not popular and it will never be until all is said and done. Jesus taught about the FEW and the MANY and He warned that MANY would be deceived and that MANY would come in His name and would deceive the MANY. Jesus taught that MANY would profess Him as Lord and yet be rejected as workers of iniquity.

The question we all need to ask is do we work iniquity or do we work righteousness? The root of either work is the heart. A heart purified by a genuine faith no longer works iniquity hence...

Psa 32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

Don't be deceived into thinking that the death of Christ effects a cloak for guile. It doesn't. The death of Christ effects a means of reconciliation to God conditional on heart purity.


 

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No, Mr. Skinski. None of us who are in Christ (abiding in Him) want to sin. But, we know that we are still reconciled to God through His grace if we do. That grace and mercy was purchased through His blood. And we do sin in big and little selfish ways every day. If you think you don't, then you have the sin of pride.

But what you failed to mention is that we were given the Holy Spirit to help keep us living for Christ. And who most of us depend on totally for the power to do so. We understand that the Holy Spirit keeps us looking at Jesus and the cross - and won't let us forget His unconditional love. UNCONDITIONAL.

The Holy Spirit is the one who is conforming us to the image of Christ for one purpose only... so that Christ can be more fully expressed through us.

It was only because of the blood being shed that we are now free to receive the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. The very power of God. And it is only as we walk in and by the Spirit that we are given this power to allow His fruits to be given to others. I know it is not my will power. It is not my goodness. It is only by His power within me.

I place great emphasis on the blood of Jesus and the fullness of the Holy Spirit within me.
 

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Skinski, No matter how clean you try to make yourself inward and outward you yourself can never be righteous, only God in you can make you righteous. You can do all the works you want you can polish your heart and soul all you want but unless you are washed by the blood of the lamb daily you will never be truly clean and will never have a pure heart and will never have robes of righteousness. You will always fall short, will always be a sinner and will never be righteous by your own doing.
 

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Is skinsi one of those perfectionist's?
 
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Skinski, No matter how clean you try to make yourself inward and outward you yourself can never be righteous, only God in you can make you righteous. You can do all the works you want you can polish your heart and soul all you want but unless you are washed by the blood of the lamb daily you will never be truly clean and will never have a pure heart and will never have robes of righteousness. You will always fall short, will always be a sinner and will never be righteous by your own doing.
He does not comprehend the law, which is why he will never see the way you and I see, He will always see himself as righteous, and use the excuse we do not want to be righteous to puff himself up over us.
 
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The word Propitiation is translated from...

hilastērion
G2435
Neuter of a derivative of G2433; an expiatory (place or thing), that is, (concretely) an atoning victim, or (specifically) the lid of the Ark (in the Temple): - mercyseat, propitiation.

We find the word used twice in the New Testament...

Rom 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

Heb 9:5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

Jesus Christ is the mediator between God and man for the purpose of reconciliation. Thus...

Heb 9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

Heb 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Jesus in effect purchased a people to reconciliation. We, as sinners, sold ourselves into condemnation and therefore forfeited our inheritance. It is through the purchase made by Jesus that we can be brought back into God's family via the marriage between the church and Jesus. The inheritance is redeemed in a similar manner as taught in the example of Ruth and Boaz where Kinsman Redeemer law was in effect...

Rth 4:10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.

In a similar manner we are redeemed from condemnation and our forfeited inheritance by DYING WITH CHRIST where our old man is crucified whereby we no longer have anything to do with that "present state" which was in rebellion to God. Instead we are BORN ANEW into Christ and as part of the church we become the bride of Him who has redeemed us.

Thus what actually happens is we enter into covenant with God which is sealed by the blood of Jesus. It is the blood of Jesus which enjoins us into covenant with God. We enter into this covenant by approaching God with a true heart (genuine repentance where the inward iniquity has been purged) and God is willing to forgive us our past sins.

The death of Christ has NOTHING to do with a legal transaction whereby ongoing wickedness is cloaked. Grace is not a license to sin but is rather the power of God to overcome sin.

We are warned in the Bible that no sacrifice remains if we willfully sin after being sanctified or set apart in this manner. This is because the cleansing is meant to be permanent not something we do over and over like the old animal sacrifice.

It is through the blood of Christ that our former sins are expiated or put away. He is the mercy seat offering made on our behalf. Jesus is our kinsman redeemer who was made like unto sinful flesh and overcame sin when in the flesh giving us an example to follow. Jesus also died and was raised from the dead and thus conquered even death itself. It is through Jesus Christ we are presented with the ministry of reconciliation, the world has been reconciled to God through the kinsman redeemer and now we all have the opportunity to be individually reconciled to God through Jesus Christ, through abiding in Him, through the Spirit of His life whereby we are made the righteousness of God in Him, the means by which we are made acceptable to God having been cleansed of our former crimes.

This is what the Bible clearly teaches. It is not what many people want to hear because there is comfort in numbers and comfort in what is familiar. The truth is not popular and it will never be until all is said and done. Jesus taught about the FEW and the MANY and He warned that MANY would be deceived and that MANY would come in His name and would deceive the MANY. Jesus taught that MANY would profess Him as Lord and yet be rejected as workers of iniquity.

The question we all need to ask is do we work iniquity or do we work righteousness? The root of either work is the heart. A heart purified by a genuine faith no longer works iniquity hence...

Psa 32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

Don't be deceived into thinking that the death of Christ effects a cloak for guile. It doesn't. The death of Christ effects a means of reconciliation to God conditional on heart purity.



I see you like to yank things out of context like your application of Hebrews 10 which is directed a Jews who were forsaking the assembling of themselves together as the manner of some......as found in we are warned in the bible....

Lets see....oh yeah also as found in your legal transaction statement...seems you do not understand justification as a legal term as applied unto genuine believers.....

and of course lest we forget you also twist and apply most of your Hebrews verses to situations that do not apply unto Gentile believers which in reality applies unto Jewish believers who were trying to blend the law with faith and lets see what else are you ignorant of....

OH yeah you fail to understand GRACE and how where sin did abound...grace did much more abound as it outruns our sins and deals with our sins before we sin and you must be ignorant of aorist tense verbs like those found in John and how belief and eternal salvation is a present continuing result from a past COMPLETED action.....

I guess at the end of the day the word Pharisee fits you well....keep on trusting into yourself, your works, your laws and religious observances and see where it gets you......Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Pharisee brothers that you have....you will in NO WISE enter into the kingdom of God........!

I will trust Jesus and his word...Believe and have eternal life that cannot be lost....yeah I may be judged and loose inheritance by riotous living, but my son-ship is secure in Christ!
 
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Again your ignorance of scripture fails to understand that it is the SPIRIT that is BORN of GOD and is SINLESS before GOD while being bound in a FALLEN sinful body that SINS regularly......keep trusting in your own abilities and works and you will be quite surprised one day soon for sure!
The early church opposed what you just wrote.

1Jn 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

You proclaim the deception John warned us against.

He that DOES righteousness is righteous. You are claiming that he who DOES wickedness is righteous because their spirit is born of God. The truth is that one with a spirit born of God DOES righteousness not wickedness as you contend.

John refuted your deception by describing how the children of God are made MANIFEST by what they DO.

1Jn 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
1Jn 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
1Jn 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
1Jn 3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

You have bought unto an underlying tenet of Gnosticism which infiltrated church orthodoxy a few hundred years after the apostles. We can trace this infiltration quite easily as primarily being through the theology of Augustine of Hippo. It is a tragedy that you have fallen for it.

Here is what Irenaeus wrote in his "Against Heresies" tome...

they hold that they shall be entirely and undoubtedly saved, not by means of conduct, but because they are spiritual by nature. For, just as it is impossible that material substance should partake of salvation (since, indeed, they maintain that it is incapable of receiving it), so again it is impossible that spiritual substance (by which they mean themselves) should ever come under the power of corruption, whatever the sort of actions in which they indulged. For even as gold, when submersed in filth, loses not on that account its beauty, but retains its own native qualities, the filth having no power to injure the gold, so they affirm that they cannot in any measure suffer hurt, or lose their spiritual substance, whatever the material actions in which they may be involved.
Irenaeus refuting Gnosticism, Against Heresies, Chapter 6
http://holybooks.lichtenbergpress.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Ante-Nicene-Fathers-Vol-1.pdf

You believe pretty much the same thing as what Irenaeus was contending against. Irenaeus was a hearer of Polycarp who was a student of John the apostle, John who refuted Gnosticism.

You blame sin on the "fallen body." The Gnostics blames sin on "matter being evil." Just like the Gnostics you don't view sin as a moral issue, rather you view it as some kind of ethereal substance which is intrinsically attached to matter, in your case the flesh body.

The Bible teaches...

1Co 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Yet you don't believe that you can escape because you hold to this notion of physical depravity as the cause of sinning. Thus your mind is neutralised to genuine repentance in which the Bible teaches that we are to crucify our passions and desires. It is a shame that you cannot see through this but hopefully others reading this can use their reason and see the plainly evident truth of the matter.

Here is what Wikipedia notes in its entry on Gnosticism...

Radical dualism—or absolute dualism, posits two co-equal divine forces. Manichaeism conceives of two previously coexistent realms of light and darkness that become embroiled in conflict, owing to the chaotic actions of the latter. Subsequently, certain elements of the light became entrapped within darkness; the purpose of material creation is to enact the slow process of extraction of these individual elements, at the end of which the kingdom of light will prevail over darkness. Manicheanism inherits[SUP][27][/SUP][SUP][28][/SUP] this dualistic mythology from Zurvanist Zoroastrianism,[SUP][29][/SUP] in which the eternal spirit Ahura Mazda is opposed by his antithesis, Angra Mainyu; the two are engaged in a cosmic struggle, the conclusion of which will likewise see Ahura Mazda triumphant.
Gnosticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In your view you see the flesh body as inherently sinful. Thus, like the Manichaeism teaching, you see matter as suppressing the light and thus claim that you are "bound in a FALLEN sinful body that SINS regularly." From your perspective sin is not a choice, sin is instead an inevitability. Due to being sin is inevitable you have to defend ongoing wickedness. I urge you to reconsider your premise. Jesus taught heart purity and DOING the right thing.

Augustine of Hippo was a Manichean for almost a decade before he converted to the Catholic faith. It was Augustine who solidified the doctrine of Original Sin and thus brought the notion of their being a "dual nature" into Christian orthodoxy. It is on top of this premise that subsequent doctrines have been developed. This is historical fact and can be verified by anyone willing to look it up.
 
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I'm sorry skin but your "skinny jeans" are to tight. They are making your head swell. :)
 
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Again you like your brothers who twist things attribute something to me that I did not say...I suggest the words of Paul as he is the one who was inspired to write about the conflict that takes place between the spirit and the flesh and even JESUS himself touched on it in the garden....NO where did I say to live wickedly so quit lying thru your teeth and adding to what I said which proves who you are from as that is exactly what SATAN did in the garden...is your daddy the devil?....it seems so!

The early church opposed what you just wrote.

1Jn 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

You proclaim the deception John warned us against.

He that DOES righteousness is righteous. You are claiming that he who DOES wickedness is righteous because their spirit is born of God. The truth is that one with a spirit born of God DOES righteousness not wickedness as you contend.

John refuted your deception by describing how the children of God are made MANIFEST by what they DO.

1Jn 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
1Jn 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
1Jn 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
1Jn 3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

You have bought unto an underlying tenet of Gnosticism which infiltrated church orthodoxy a few hundred years after the apostles. We can trace this infiltration quite easily as primarily being through the theology of Augustine of Hippo. It is a tragedy that you have fallen for it.

Here is what Irenaeus wrote in his "Against Heresies" tome...


Irenaeus refuting Gnosticism, Against Heresies, Chapter 6
http://holybooks.lichtenbergpress.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Ante-Nicene-Fathers-Vol-1.pdf

You believe pretty much the same thing as what Irenaeus was contending against. Irenaeus was a hearer of Polycarp who was a student of John the apostle, John who refuted Gnosticism.

You blame sin on the "fallen body." The Gnostics blames sin on "matter being evil." Just like the Gnostics you don't view sin as a moral issue, rather you view it as some kind of ethereal substance which is intrinsically attached to matter, in your case the flesh body.

The Bible teaches...

1Co 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Yet you don't believe that you can escape because you hold to this notion of physical depravity as the cause of sinning. Thus your mind is neutralised to genuine repentance in which the Bible teaches that we are to crucify our passions and desires. It is a shame that you cannot see through this but hopefully others reading this can use their reason and see the plainly evident truth of the matter.

Here is what Wikipedia notes in its entry on Gnosticism...


Gnosticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In your view you see the flesh body as inherently sinful. Thus, like the Manichaeism teaching, you see matter as suppressing the light and thus claim that you are "bound in a FALLEN sinful body that SINS regularly." From your perspective sin is not a choice, sin is instead an inevitability. Due to being sin is inevitable you have to defend ongoing wickedness. I urge you to reconsider your premise. Jesus taught heart purity and DOING the right thing.

Augustine of Hippo was a Manichean for almost a decade before he converted to the Catholic faith. It was Augustine who solidified the doctrine of Original Sin and thus brought the notion of their being a "dual nature" into Christian orthodoxy. It is on top of this premise that subsequent doctrines have been developed. This is historical fact and can be verified by anyone willing to look it up.
 
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The early saints made statements like this...

And reckon that it is for your sakes we have been saying these things; for it is in our power, when we are examined, to deny that we are Christians; but we would not live by telling a lie. For, impelled by the desire of the eternal and pure life, we seek the abode that is with God, the Father and Creator of all, and hasten to confess our faith, persuaded and convinced as we are that they who have proved to God by their works that they followed Him, and loved to abide with Him where there is no sin to cause disturbance, can obtain these things.
Justin Martyr, First Apology, ch. 8

Such a statement is anathema today unfortunately. The early saints believed in heart purity. It is what they taught and preached.

There is no such doctrine as "imputed righteousness of Christ" taught in early church writings. That doctrine is only 400 years old yet people love to eat it up.
 
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I'm sorry skin but your "skinny jeans" are to tight. They are making your head swell. :)
More like his Pharisee approach to the word....he flatly denies and reject the word of God concerning the dual nature of a child of God....

Jesus said...

The SPIRIT (the one born of God) is indeed WILLING
but
THE Flesh (corrupt fallen nature) IS WEAK

Paul also expanded upon this and yet the workers for salvation will flat deny this, twist it away, ignore it and or simply try and use arguments by men long dead to try and explain it away instead of just believing it and embracing it as truth......
 
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The early saints made statements like this...

Justin Martyr, First Apology, ch. 8

Such a statement is anathema today unfortunately. The early saints believed in heart purity. It is what they taught and preached.

There is no such doctrine as "imputed righteousness of Christ" taught in early church writings. That doctrine is only 400 years old yet people love to eat it up.
Justin Martyr was not inspired of God and is as fallible as any man can be...so his statement means nothing to me as the bible over rules his ignorance....!
 

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The blood makes reconciliation and the Holy Spirit makes for sanctification. Like Paul said in the body we will to do and do not and that which we will not to do we do. The flesh is indeed weak but the Spirit is willing. Romans 7:15

For the cause of Christ
Roger