Andrew Farley created a simple view diagram of the believer. In his view all the issues of the heart are just gone.
My experience in myself and other christians with a real past, is this just does not happen.
The thing about real sinners, when the come to the Lord it is obvious. Sin is left behind, a new joy enters their life and things change. The problem is underlying behaviour patterns and things built into their lives that need working through.
If not worked through often the slide back into their old life and old ways of dealing with stress restarts, and the word gets taken away.
Now this is just not the Andrew Farley model. Now scripture could hold with Andrews ideas, but in reality if it does not make sense and does not work, why would any of the apostles ever deal with this situation. It just did not happen in 70AD.
The only people this was an issue with was the pharisees who lived as close to a righteous life as you could get.
And the apostles knew all the arguments, because they grew up with them. So again the possibility of this kind of error was zero.
Today the argument only works among people who generally are loving and kind in their culture, so the switch to Christianity is a religious one and not a real life reality. So who are they really appealing to, religious christians. And what is their gospel, tweak your conscience. It is like a flash in the pan, it relies on their christian heritage to keep alive, while destroying all its support. What happens when it collapses, so goes their faith.
judge not or be judged,is it talking about behaviour or judging other people.
get, andrew farley here, so that we, can ask him what he means. (having your own revelation , is to know what god wants from you. ) ie
that why he gave christian the holy spirit.
looking at sin, would do what, to a believer. (saved by grace a gift)
4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.5
when were you a sinner. if your are a gentile. so prove, what made you a sinner.
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But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass,
much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.16 And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.17 For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive
the abundance of grace and
the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
25 But now that faith has come,
we are no longer under a guardian,(law)26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.Galatians 3: By Faith, or by Works of the Law?
sorry in context jesus was talking to a jewish nation, not tweeking gentiles. so the error is with wrong definition to the meaning of scripture.
for example,
jesus only talked to the the crowd in parables. (the apostles filled in the gaps.)
what blind eyes, fail to see, is,
you believe in a god through jesus christ. yet the gospel only tells, the life of jesus christ.
and death , resurrection. yet non christian jews would not know this. ie till later in the other books. etc.