You are ignoring what the text is actually saying, though. You seem to falsely believe that 1 John 1:9 is talking about a walk when no such indication is given to us that this is so. Please explain to me slowly how "cleanse us from all unrighteousness" in relation to confession is about one's walk and not about cleanse us from all unrighteousness or sin. Please take note that John defines the word "unrighteousness" in 1 John 1:9 as "sin" in 1 John 5:17. He says all unrighteousness is sin.
Why are you ignoring these verses? If you are not ignoring them, please explain it to me.
Why are you ignoring these verses? If you are not ignoring them, please explain it to me.
As for your reference to how you are sold under sin in Romans 7:14. You are referencing when Paul was talking about his personal experience as a Jew who kept the Law before he was a Christian in Romans 7. But true Christians are free from the Law of sin and death.
Romans 8:2
"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death."
In other words, how can you be sold under sin if you are free from the law of sin and death? You are either free or not free. Read Romans 6. It talks about how shall we continue in sin so that grace may abound? Paul says God forbid.
Romans 8:2
"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death."
In other words, how can you be sold under sin if you are free from the law of sin and death? You are either free or not free. Read Romans 6. It talks about how shall we continue in sin so that grace may abound? Paul says God forbid.
As for your reference to the new man being just the spiritual: Romans 12:1 says offer your bodies as a willing sacrifice unto God. Verse 2 says be not conformed to this world (Which is physical), but ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is good and acceptable and perfect concerning the will of God. For Paul says we are to present three things blameless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The body, the soul, and the spirit.
As for your reference to me not knowing what it means to be born again: Well, I am afraid you do not understand what born again means if there is no actual change. Caterpillars turn into butterflies. This is a change. In a manner of speaking, they are born again in being a new type of creature that can fly. They are different. Born again figuratively speaking thru the process of metamorphasis. The butterfly is different than the caterpillar. It is new. A person who is born again is the same way. They are not born again if they are not changed or new in any way. They are still the old man if they are living like their old self in sin.
There is a change - we are now partakers of the divine nature and that is inside us but we still walk in this body of flesh that is contrary to that divine nature within us. You have NO grace towards others in you . . . a person battles daily with this struggle against their old man nature and that divine nature - the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit lusteth against the flesh, so that you cannot do what you want - they don't want to follow the flesh but sometimes the flesh wins out - you automatically condemn them and say they can't be born again . . . AND that is not true for someone who is really trying - thank God that he looks upon the heart of a person and not the flesh. Thank God for his abundant mercy and grace.
As for your analogy about crossing over the white line: Well, sometimes when you do this, you can hit another car and cause a traffic pile up. One such traffic accident happened really bad not too long ago (on a highway that I drive on) and one of the cars flipped and exploded. Such an accident could be caused by crossing over the white line a little. All it takes is one person not driving right and then people are dying. Granted, if God knows you are struggling with sin and you want to forsake it, and you are sorrowful towards the Lord by confessing it, then that is different. One wants to change and be the new man. But if a person just like doesn't care whether they sin or not, then there is a huge problem. God does not take sin lightly. God is not a respecter of persons just because you have a belief in Him. Sin will still destroy anyone's soul if they do not repent.
As for your reference to being out of fellowship with God with the thinking you are saved: Again, Scripture refutes such thinking. Please read 1 John 5:12, John 17:3, and Romans 8:9.
As for your reference to being out of fellowship with God with the thinking you are saved: Again, Scripture refutes such thinking. Please read 1 John 5:12, John 17:3, and Romans 8:9.
Read 2 Corinthians 5:19-21 and see how God sees us. Actually you should get your mind off sin and look at people through God's eyes.