Sinless Perfectionism

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Sins is a perfectly valid translation of James 5:16 as well. You can make an assertion that it is not, but reputable Bible translators would disagree. I would ask what your linguistic background is.

No. Why would you ever think I would do that?

However, you are missing the point. An alcoholic who desires to be free from his addiction is not going to stay hooked to his addiction for the rest of his life. That's kind of the point. A believer does not stay addicted to their sin the rest of their life. They will overcome it. For sin shall not have dominion over them. For they that are Christ's have crucified the affections and lusts (Galatians 5:24).



This is making the assumption that your world view is true. However, it is not the case according to the Bible and how the real world operates. Actually the church that believes they can sin and still be saved would be hypocritical because they are preaching from the Bible that has many commands in it for them to do and yet they are not obeying them. In other words, the Word says one thing and yet they are doing something completely the opposite (Which is wrong).



In the King James, James 5:16 says "fautls" and not sins. This would be sins not leading unto death. It would be hidden or secret faults as mentioned in Psalm 19:12. We know that this is the case because James 5:19-20 mentions how if a believer converts a back slidden saint back to the faith, they would have in effect helped to save their soul and covered their sins. So James 5:16 is talking about the sins that do not lead unto death and James 5:19-20 is talking about sins that did lead unto death but they were repented of. Also see 1 John 5:16-18.
 
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So, in your worldview, you think that there are sins that doom a person eternally and they aren't going to be able to come back from them? Is that your "sins unto death"?

If so, why does I John 1:8-9 say that we can be cleansed of all unrighteousness?

By the way, I know people with OCD who came into contact with professing believers talking about the unforgiveable sin and they could not get it out of their heads. It's really sad.

It's notable that the unforgivable sin was in the context of unbelieving Pharisees and not believers. They sought to discredit the works of Christ and to attribute them to the devil knowingly. Yet professing believers continue to try to apply the unforgiveable sin to believers.

By the way do you belong to a local fellowship where you are held accountable to church leadership? If not, you're in disobedience.
No doubt. Jason preaches a gospel of death.
 
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So, in your worldview, you think that there are sins that doom a person eternally and they aren't going to be able to come back from them? Is that your "sins unto death"?
Sins unto death are the sins that John lists in Revelation 21:8 that leads unto the second DEATH, which is the Lake of Fire. The Lake of Fire will completely destroy both the soul and the body of the wicked. For Jesus says, fear not him who can destroy the body, but fear him who can destroy both body and soul in Gehenna (i.e. the Lake of Fire).

If so, why does I John 1:8-9 say that we can be cleansed of all unrighteousness?
1 John 1:9 is talking about how one is cleansed of all unrigtheousness if they coness their sins. This is in reference to past sin because if it was future sin, then it would make no sense to confess sin so as to be forgiven of sin as per what 1 John 1:9 says.

By the way, I know people with OCD who came into contact with professing believers talking about the unforgiveable sin and they could not get it out of their heads. It's really sad.

It's notable that the unforgivable sin was in the context of unbelieving Pharisees and not believers. They sought to discredit the works of Christ and to attribute them to the devil knowingly. Yet professing believers continue to try to apply the unforgiveable sin to believers.
The unforgivable sin is speaking bad against the Holy Ghost. If someone says this, they can never be forgiven ever.

By the way do you belong to a local fellowship where you are held accountable to church leadership? If not, you're in disobedience.
Verses, please. Also, is it a sin unto death? What if a person is trapped in a jungle and or does not have a church nearby? Are they condemned? What if most churches in their area are corrupt?

Do you know that you can have fellowship with a small group of believers in a person's home?
 
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Sins unto death are the sins that John lists in Revelation 21:8 that leads unto the second DEATH, which is the Lake of Fire. The Lake of Fire will completely destroy both the soul and the body of the wicked. For Jesus says, fear not him who can destroy the body, but fear him who can destroy both body and soul in Gehenna (i.e. the Lake of Fire).



1 John 1:9 is talking about how one is cleansed of all unrigtheousness if you coness your sins. This is in reference to past sin because if it was future sin, then it would make no sense to confess sin so as to be forgiven of sin as per what 1 John 1:9 says.



The unforgivable sin is speaking bad against the Holy Ghost. If someone says this, they can never be forgiven ever.



Verses, please. Also, is it a sin unto death? What if a person is trapped in a jungle and or does not have a church nearby? Are they condemned? What if most churches in their area are corrupt?

Do you know that you can have fellowship with a small group of believers in a person's home?
Of course I know a person can fellowship with a small group of believers. Do they hold you accountable if you have such a fellowship? That's part of the church's function.
 
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sparkman

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By the way if your standards are just not to commit the sins in the list in Revelation 21:8, you have pretty low standards.

Sins unto death are the sins that John lists in Revelation 21:8 that leads unto the second DEATH, which is the Lake of Fire. The Lake of Fire will completely destroy both the soul and the body of the wicked. For Jesus says, fear not him who can destroy the body, but fear him who can destroy both body and soul in Gehenna (i.e. the Lake of Fire).



1 John 1:9 is talking about how one is cleansed of all unrigtheousness if they coness their sins. This is in reference to past sin because if it was future sin, then it would make no sense to confess sin so as to be forgiven of sin as per what 1 John 1:9 says.



The unforgivable sin is speaking bad against the Holy Ghost. If someone says this, they can never be forgiven ever.



Verses, please. Also, is it a sin unto death? What if a person is trapped in a jungle and or does not have a church nearby? Are they condemned? What if most churches in their area are corrupt?

Do you know that you can have fellowship with a small group of believers in a person's home?
 
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Do you know that you can have fellowship with a small group of believers in a person's home?
sure you can but it can become something akin to spiritual incest.
 
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Sins is a perfectly valid translation of James 5:16 as well. You can make an assertion that it is not, but reputable Bible translators would disagree. I would ask what your linguistic background is.
Your not really reading what I had written. I distinguish that it is "faults'" but then I clarify that "faults" are sins that do not lead unto death. Hidden or secret faults would be sins that do not lead unto death (Psalm 19:12).
 
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Of course I know a person can fellowship with a small group of believers. Do they hold you accountable if you have such a fellowship? That's part of the church's function.
Verses please; Oh, and is it such a sin that would lead unto death?
 
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Your not really reading what I had written. I distinguish that it is "faults'" but then I clarify that "faults" are sins that do not lead unto death. Hidden or secret faults would be sins that do not lead unto death (Psalm 19:12).
Nowhere does God quantify sin as less or more. God can have none of it. A white lie to murdering an old defenseless lady are all punishable by death.
 
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By the way if your standards are just not to commit the sins in the list in Revelation 21:8, you have pretty low standards.
Paul lists these types of sins several times, too. Paul says be not deceived. The unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.
 
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Nowhere does God quantify sin as less or more. God can have none of it. A white lie to murdering an old defenseless lady are all punishable by death.
We are not under the Law of Moses anymore (Hebrews 8:13). The law has changed (Hebrews 7:12). We are under the Law of Christ (Galatians 6:2) or the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:2).

Oh, and there are different types of sins. There are sins unto death and there are sins that are not unto death (See 1 John 5:16-18). For there are sins that are unforgivable. Jesus also says there is a...."Greater sin", too. So no. Not all sins are the same. That is a common misconception.
 
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Sins unto death are the sins that John lists in Revelation 21:8 that leads unto the second DEATH, which is the Lake of Fire. The Lake of Fire will completely destroy both the soul and the body of the wicked. For Jesus says, fear not him who can destroy the body, but fear him who can destroy both body and soul in Gehenna (i.e. the Lake of Fire).



1 John 1:9 is talking about how one is cleansed of all unrigtheousness if they coness their sins. This is in reference to past sin because if it was future sin, then it would make no sense to confess sin so as to be forgiven of sin as per what 1 John 1:9 says.



The unforgivable sin is speaking bad against the Holy Ghost. If someone says this, they can never be forgiven ever.



Verses, please. Also, is it a sin unto death? What if a person is trapped in a jungle and or does not have a church nearby? Are they condemned? What if most churches in their area are corrupt?

Do you know that you can have fellowship with a small group of believers in a person's home?
Jason, you need to learn so much and be taught by a man of God. I am not that man but there is one out there just for you. There is no such thing as an unpardonable sin and there has never been. What is unforgivable is speaking evil of the Holy Spirit of whom the Spirit dwells. All sin has been paid for and can be forgiven and cleansed but evil was not paid for by the blood of Christ and the one who expresses it toward the body of Christ is in danger of the second death. This evil is what Christ taught his disciples to pray, 'deliver us from evil'. One must be delivered from evil. Evil can not be forgiven for it was not covered by the blood of Christ, that is why those who commit such are in danger.
 
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Jason, you need to learn so much and be taught by a man of God. I am not that man but there is one out there just for you. There is no such thing as an unpardonable sin and there has never been. What is unforgivable is speaking evil of the Holy Spirit of whom the Spirit dwells. All sin has been paid for and can be forgiven and cleansed but evil was not paid for by the blood of Christ and the one who expresses it toward the body of Christ is in danger of the second death. This evil is what Christ taught his disciples to pray, 'deliver us from evil'. One must be delivered from evil. Evil can not be forgiven for it was not covered by the blood of Christ, that is why those who commit such are in danger.
Sorry, no offense, but I completely reject what you are saying. I believe you teach a sin and still be saved doctrine (of which I believe to be pure evil). Also, God's Word is plain. Blasphemy is speaking bad against God. Also, there are conditions in the Bible in regards to a believer's right standing with God. Matthew 6:15, 1 John 3:!5, etc.
 

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Sorry, no offense, but I completely reject what you are saying. I believe you teach a sin and still be saved doctrine (of which I believe to be pure evil). Also, God's Word is plain. Blasphemy is speaking bad against God. Also, there are conditions in the Bible in regards to a believer's right standing with God. Matthew 6:15, 1 John 3:!5, etc.
You are offensive because you are not truthful. You accuse another who professes to be a believer and we all know who is the accuser of the brethren.

Sinless perfectionism has its genesis in the I will be like the Most High God heart attitude. Read all of 1 John and keep the context of the book correct. John says that if we say we have no sin we make Christ a liar. When we sin and not if we sin we have an advocate with the Father.

Believers can never be brought under the condemnation of sin. Believers can only suffer the disruption of the precious fellowship they have with Christ when they sin and fail to seek forgiveness for it.

For the cause of Christ
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jahsoul

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You are offensive because you are not truthful. You accuse another who professes to be a believer and we all know who is the accuser of the brethren.
To be fair here Mr. Roger, this has been going both ways, because Jason has been getting the same (if not worse) treatment on here from many others. You don't agree with him and he doesn't agree with you, but the fact is, if he is offensive, the many others on here are also (because Jason professes to be a believer also)
 
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BradC

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Jason, you can believe anything you want about me are what I share here on CC. I do not believe in living in sin at all. You attribute and impute that to me and others because of a problem you have with sin and what Christ has done to it. When Christ WAS shedding his blood on the cross, was that for all your sins or just the ones you committed before you were saved? Can you see how misleading that can be?

To believe that all future sins were not paid for is wrong. To believe that when we trust Christ for the forgiveness of sin, that would mean all sin and not just some. If we sin after we believe, our sin is already buried and we acknowledge what we have done because of conviction. We then put it off and go on by faith. We do not need to be sorry for what we have done, just acknowledge it.
 
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eternally-gratefull

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A believer does not judge their walk of whether they are perfect or not before the Lord because they may not be aware of their hidden or secret faults (Psalm 19:12).
if they think they are perfect and have no faults. they do not know God, or the process of sanctification.

Paul continued to run the race because he had not made it yet. You can not sit and claim how good you are, and understand paul, it is impossible
 
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eternally-gratefull

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But faults aren't sin right? Two different things in the gospel according to Jason.
He excuses his sin as inconsequential. and not really sin, just mess-ups. He does not understand his mess ups would condemn him forever if not for Christ paying the debt of that sin.
 
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if they think they are perfect and have no faults. they do not know God, or the process of sanctification.

Paul continued to run the race because he had not made it yet. You can not sit and claim how good you are, and understand paul, it is impossible
But he will argue in circle after circle thinking he is some kind of teacher. He ain't even a "good teacher" .....the kind that offended Jesus that the young rich ruler was referring too.
 
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Not true, there are Roman Catholics and many other false religions who seek to follow a works based system of doing right things for God. They want to do good but they cannot do it completely. Catholics used to whip and beat themselves so as to help them to obey God's laws.


See your strawman, The jews sought to do right also. Yet they could not do right. Just because one seeks to do right, does not mean they understand what right is. Our right and Gods right are not the same.

There are non who do good. that is the status of a non believer.



Many false religions that claim to follow the BIble or Biblical cults takes delight in God's law in their inner being. They are proud with themselves for obeying certain laws of God.
Again a strawman, Just because they claim it, does not mean they do it, or can do it. Paul understood this clearly. you can;t because you want to puff yourself up and make your case. Your failing miserably


False religionists who believe in God still have a carnal mind and do not have the mind of Christ. For verse 16 is in context to verse 14 in 1 Corinthians chapter 2.

So do you want to stick to the point, or keep going off in circles. You need to try again, You did not answer anything you responded to. all you did was try to make an excuse why your right, you did not prove your point.


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This is not the first time Paul does not talk from his present experience.

[/SUP]But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. (Galatians 2:17-18).


So he spoke future tense here.. And this proves he spoke of past tense. there is no present tense article here so whats your point?


No, Paul did not see himself as a bad guy. He seen himself as a man of God who obeyed the law as a Jew.
Yep, and he was wrong wasn't he? He also rejected christ, and probably was praising God for his crucifiction. notice how you failed to respond to the fact Paul praised God through Christ,, He never did that pre conversion.