This is a perfect example of what I am talking about and I appreciate you bringing it up.
1Joh 1:8 is a favourite verse people use to excuse ongoing sin.
1Jn 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
"Oh sin we will and sin we must and if you deny it you are a liar, see the Bible proves it in 1Jn 1:8" is the cry.
Yet that verse does not exist in a vacuum. That verse has a context and the context is this...
1Jn 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1Jn 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1Jn 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1Jn 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1Jn 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
1Jn 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
1Jn 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1Jn 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
1Jn 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
1Jn 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
1Jn 2:6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
You ignore the surrounding verses and pretend they don't exist.
1Joh 1:8 is about how we initially approach God seeking to be cleansed. We have to come clean with God and confess our sin, anyone who claims to have no sin to their account is a liar and the truth cannot possibly be in them.
That verse has nothing to do with coming to God while you are still in rebellion because one cannot walk in the light as He is in the light whilst in rebellion. The rebellion has to cease. 1Joh 1:8-10 are verses about being honest with God when we repent for THEN the blood cleanses us if we are walking in the light. The same principle is found throughout the Bible...
Pro 28:13 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Third...a saved CHILD OF GOD can and does sin, but does not live a continual LIFESTYLE of sin...
You just do not believe the Bible. You want just want to "sin less" instead of "stopping sin." That is why you twist salvation to include occasional acts of rebellion, just so long as it is not a habit. A child molester can just occasionally molest a child right? A rapist can just occasionally rape a woman right? A murdered can just occasionally murder someone right? Just so long as they don't do it every week or month? You really believe that even though Jesus focused on heart purity in the Gospel? You want to argue in favour of unrighteousness?
John wrote...
1Jn 3:6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
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 don't believe what John wrote. You teach the opposite.
Would you call John a liar to his face? It is easier to just ignore what he wrote I know because he is long dead.
The children of God are manifest in they do not commit sin. It couldn't be any clearer. He who sins is of the devil.
Yet you teach we all sin, that no-one can stop. You believe in a salvation where sin is more powerful than God's ability to save you from sin. Have you ever really considered how foolish a belief that is? I mean really ever thought about it seriously? Are you really willing to stand before God at the judgement and claim that you couldn't stop sinning when Jesus taught "go and sin no more"?
Jesus warned...
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
By your own admission you claim to be a worker of iniquity because you claim you still sin. Therefore you continue to work evil yet think you are saved? Read that warning above again. Isn't it people like you it is speaking about? "Workers of iniquity" versus those who "do the will of God."
Isn't that the same thing Paul taught in Romans 2...
Rom 2:5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Rom 2:6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
Rom 2:7 To them
who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
Rom 2:8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
Rom 2:9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
Rom 2:10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
Rom 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
What do you do with passages like the above when I bring them up? Does your mind just block them out? Do you purposely ignore them? Do you somehow twist them into meaning something other than what they state? I would really like to know.
WAS DAVID a saved child of GOD after GOD'S on heart and mind when he commited adultery and then Killed URIAH so he could have BATHSHEBA? YES and as a child of God he paid the price in his PHYSICAL life by the CHASTENING HAND OF GOD, but STILL REMAINED a child of God...
So you think David could have been engaged in adultery and murder and not repented and entered the kingdom? How can you believe that with all the warnings throughout the Bible to turn from wickedness in order to be forgiven? Who do those warning apply to them? Are they written in there as jokes to be scoffed at?
So we can live like the devil and only be punished in this life but rewarded with eternal life? You are speaking like Satan. "Ye can sin and not surely die." That is what you are teaching. You are teaching that you can disobey God and not face the eternal consequences. Somehow you believe you have a license to sin with impunity.