if you believe you do not have a license to sin, then how do you explain how you disagreed with my statement when I said,"You think grace covers a person's evil in the beginning of their faith?"
If you or I take forgiveness = a license to sin,
then the Lord will judge us.
You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; as I commanded you, seven days you shall eat unleavened bread...
You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with anything leavened.
Ex 23:15, 18.
Would not a covering of a person's evil or sin in the beginning of their faith make them think that they do have a license to sin? If not, then please explain.
You and I were already born sinners. Additionally, you and I sinned since then.
The only ones God has to work with..............are sinners.
There's none righteous. No, not one.
In order to deliver us from the law of sin (and of death), first the Lord must forgive our sins. Which He did righteously, by paying for them with His own blood, His own death. In other words: He's our Physician and Savior before He's our Judge.
And, 'don't worry' about being so bad that the Lord can't heal you. He's stronger than you. His life, and death, will conquer both the sin, and death, in us. That's what it means to be a child of God.
I see John 5:29 as refuting OSAS because nobody can do evil and expect to be at the resurrection of life. For those who do evil will be at the resurrection of damnation. For the Scriptures say that anyone who does evil hates the light (John 3:20).
Good, that you're doing no evil. Congratulations, or rather congratulations to the One who is indwelling you. In whom you are abiding. Day by day. Learning to live Christ. Rather than yourself. And deny yourself.
Another, serious, example, is related in 1 Corinthians 5:1-13; 6:13-19; 2 Corinthians 2:1-11.
With the Lord's help strive to live holy and righteous. Yes, this is true, but this is not while they teach a sin and still be saved doctrine
So believing (and confessing) that once I am born of God, I'm always God's child..........is not 'striving to live holy and righteous'?
Is................it sin?
"For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins," (Hebrews 10:26).
Don't generalize and misinterpret Hebrews or Hebrews 10 or Hebrews 10:26.
If Jason..............goes to Judaism, then animal sacrifices no longer work. They don't work in Judaism, or outside of Judaism.
As the middle of that passage relates: The Lord will judge HIS PEOPLE, 10:30.
That judgment does not = Jason (or whoever disobeys in this regard) is no longer His people!
"Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him."
(Hebrews 10:38).
Of course. What do you expect the Father to say to His child? Salvation isn't over. As 39 points out:
Have faith [or Take faith] to the gaining of the SOUL. That is not the gaining of the spirit. Which is already gained,
1 Cor 6:17; Jn 3:6; Rm 8:16; Heb 4:12, 16; 12.
In Hebrews, Jesus Christ (my Lord and Savior) is Both Author..............And Completer, Perfecter, of my faith.
Hebrews throughout urges the saints to come forward. To the throne of grace. To the Lord. To our spirit. To run the race.
To finish the race. It is not warning believers to go back and start all over! Because they (we) sinned! That's what your silly teaching teaches. That saints, when they sin (too much, or enough, against your standard), are lost. But Hebrews 6, in particular, says Don't do that! Don't teach, or try, to go back to the beginning, and start your Christian life all over. (As if you could!) It's a waste of time. It's both fruitless, unhelpful, counterproductive, ignorant, and silly.
Jesus told people to "Repent" and to "Sin no more." So believing on Jesus would include his message of repentance and sinning no more, too. Besides, it does not change John 3:19-21.
If anyone [any saint] sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for those of the whole world
All things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. This is in context to only the faithful believer.
Great. I don't put as much faith in myself as you.
And I'm also happy that He who has begun a good work in me will complete it.
"For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God." (Romans 8:5-8).
Correct Jason. You need not wait until hell to experience death. The mind set on the flesh is death. But the mind set on the spirit is life. And peace. The choice is yours.
John does not give us an allowance to sin, though. For he says in 1 John 2:1 to sin not.
An allowance?
in Rom 11:32. God shows mercy.
That's what it says. It also says that He shut all of us up in disobedience so that He may show mercy. He's a merciful God. A merciful Guy-------------- But in order for that interpreation to work, you have to ignore the other verses in Romans whereby it says we have to continue in his goodness otherwise we could be cut off, too. The Jews were cut off spiritually.
Okay Jason, sorry: God is merciless. He's a merciless guy
Does He help you do good? Of course.
So then He...............is merciful?
Or just helpful
Believers do not start out as practicing sinners saved by God's grace. Believers confess and forsake sin. The Spirit convicts them of sin.
Right. I don't know of any believers who have sinned since they believed
Please skip back and read 2 Timothy 3:1-9. It is describing a wrong type of behavior for the wrong type of believers. They have a form of godliness but they deny the power thereof and they commit various different sins.
So what should they do?
People who live in sin as a way of life. For he that sins is a slave to sin. Meaning, sin is their master. But Jesus said, you cannot serve two masters, though
So which master is stronger? Which one will win you?
The Scriptures mention how there are those who are twice dead, who are plucked up by the roots. This means, they were dead once before they came to the Lord and then they died again spiritually a second time when they backslidden into sin. Also, when you read 1 Peter 1:23, you also have to read verse 22 that says this,
"Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:"
Are you allowed to die only once?
Mt 18:21-22