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That's like asking "do you still beat your wife?" hehe
Get your facts straight first is my advice. Recognize that if I say I am the chief of sinners, I can tell you about thefts and adulteries and lies that might make your hair stand on end. I'm sure I've ruined lives from my previous ways. Paul murdered Children of God. Though we are both forgiven, such a past still has a certain weight to it until the day we die, do you know what I mean? Not like guilt or anything, because Paul and I have been forgiven.
But if you think Paul was still murdering people when he said he was the chief of sinners, you are sorely mistaking.
If you think I am still out fornicating and lying and stealing, you are again sorely mistaking.
Paul WAS (past tense) a sinner. He was transformed into a Saint, and we read and believe His Righteousness Came from Christ Jesus and believe his Words exactly as we believe Jesus' Words. Are you following?
Now, if Paul was, as you are more than indicating, still an active sinner at the time he said he WAS chief of sinners, you are flat wrong, and really need a few lessons in proper discernment of the Word of God.
So yes, I answered that I was a Saint. Why? Because I am of the below verse 9. Those who aren't of verse 9, are of verse 8. I hope this solves your quandary. Ask the right questions, you'll get the right answers.
Peace!
(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.
Get your facts straight first is my advice. Recognize that if I say I am the chief of sinners, I can tell you about thefts and adulteries and lies that might make your hair stand on end. I'm sure I've ruined lives from my previous ways. Paul murdered Children of God. Though we are both forgiven, such a past still has a certain weight to it until the day we die, do you know what I mean? Not like guilt or anything, because Paul and I have been forgiven.
But if you think Paul was still murdering people when he said he was the chief of sinners, you are sorely mistaking.
If you think I am still out fornicating and lying and stealing, you are again sorely mistaking.
Paul WAS (past tense) a sinner. He was transformed into a Saint, and we read and believe His Righteousness Came from Christ Jesus and believe his Words exactly as we believe Jesus' Words. Are you following?
Now, if Paul was, as you are more than indicating, still an active sinner at the time he said he WAS chief of sinners, you are flat wrong, and really need a few lessons in proper discernment of the Word of God.
So yes, I answered that I was a Saint. Why? Because I am of the below verse 9. Those who aren't of verse 9, are of verse 8. I hope this solves your quandary. Ask the right questions, you'll get the right answers.
Peace!
(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.
1 John 1:7-9King James Version (KJV)
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.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.