AMEN and not to mention the fact that it is a moronic question at best which is used quite regularly by those who trust into their own works and abilities......while rejecting the completed work of Christ and what He accomplished for humanity upon the cross.......
Same kind of crap the devil pulled in the garden...HATH God said.......seems like workers for salvation and the devil have quite a few things in common for sure!
More vacuous rhetoric. You hardly ever use any scripture in your posts but only assert the theology of men. When you do refer to scripture it is generally a single verse which you have twisted out of context.
The reason Jesus died on the cross is that...
Tit 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that
he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
...and...
Heb 9:14 How much more shall
the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:15 And
for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Heb 9:16 For
where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
Heb 9:17 For
a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Heb 9:18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
Heb 9:19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
Heb 9:20 Saying,
This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
The death of Christ put into effect the New Covenant which we can be enjoined to God by the blood of Christ. We enter into this covenant by approaching God with a true heart, yielded to Him whereby His laws are written upon our hearts, whereby we are washed clean of our past crimes.
Heb 10:16
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord,
I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Heb 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Heb 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Heb 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Heb 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Heb 10:21 And having an high priest over the house of God;
Heb 10:22
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Thus...
Rom 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Rom 6:6
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Rom 6:7
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Thus when we read...
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.
The blood only cleanses IF we WALK in the light. We have to come clean with God in repentance, forsaking our rebellion, yield to God and THEN God cleanses us of all sin. The entire Bible agrees with this.
Wickedness must be laid aside. There is no excuse to keep choosing evil.
This notion of the "completed work of Christ" which is to simply be "trusted in" which somehow cloaks ongoing wickedness is preposterous. No-one who supports such an idea can back this notion up with what the Bible teaches. All people like you do is disregard the plain and simple truth and assert rhetoric. You ignore what is written in Hebrews, you ignore the words of Jesus, you ignore Paul, you ignore Peter, you ignore John.
Not only that but people like you refuse to broach the subject of heart purity in salvation. That subject is simply not touched with a ten foot pole.