Choosing to do the right thing is sin?
You do nothing but sin?
Even the best you can do is as a filthy rag before God huh?
Then why on earth would the Bible say something like this...
Heb 11:4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Are not you claiming that Abel's sacrifice was a sin and a filthy rag before God????? Explain that please.
Are you still a monster of iniquity?
Skinski
The problem is not so much with a lot of your pure doctrine according to scripture, it is the ideal, but it does not allow for the humanity of man, or for the working out practically of Grace in the Christians life.
I bet to you, as soon as a person becomes a Christian they can immediately cease all sin. I am afraid you can only see the literal letter, and not all of that:
If while we seek to be justified in Christ,
it becomes evident that we ourselves are sinners, does this mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not! If I rebuild what I destroyed I prove that I am a lawbreaker
Gal 2:16&17
Paul is not saying there by any stretch of the imagination a person puts the flesh to death and lives a sinless life upon conversion. I am afraid if that is what you believe you cannot see beyond some of the literal letter.
A person becomes a Christian, much sin they can immediately cease, but what of the sin that wraps itself so tightly around them? Deeply ingrained sin they have been afflicted by for many years? Do you preach that all of this immediately vanishes?
So to Paul, once someone starts out on their Christian walk it is plain they are a sinner. Why does he ask. 'Does Christ promote sin?
Because to Paul you are saved by grace through faith, and you are saved despite your imperfections, and what may well be glaring sin that needs to urgently be dealt with as you begin your Christian walk. Now if you saw someone rejoicing in their Christianity, despite glaring sin in their life, what will you think(if you are honest)
That person is promoting Sin. They are rejoicing in their salvation while blatantly committing what to you is unacceptable sin. But the new convert is weak:
While we were yet without strength Christ sdied for the ungodly
Rom5:6
But you would expect the new convert to immediately cease all sin wouldn't you? Be honest!
Paul proves the point in the next verse
Absolutely not! If I rebuild what I destroyed I prove that I am a lawbreaker
In other words, if the new convert believes the sin has to be dealt with in order for them to be a Christian(has to be according to law) they will fail and simply prove they are a lawbreaker
That is the spiritual reality.
And if a person does take the view that the sin has to be dealt with for them to be acceptable to God be a Christian, they are under law, for the law can condemn them
Spurgeon wrote that he had seen prostitutes change, their hearts become pure as the driven snow, alcoholics too. But he did not preach instant perrfection, but victory through faith in Christ. He also said we all have sins to mourn over the whole of our lives, but some sins, if not dealt with would be fatal.
You see, you cannot just read the literal letter, you have to understand the heart of what it contains, and allow for the outworkings of the Gospel of Grace, and the higher points of the law
For you are not perfect, of that I am positive
On another website, an American woman said that half the sex addicts in the US had at one time or another been to 'holiness' churches.
If you properly understood Rom7:7-11 you would know why that is.
Satan has but one battering ram to hurt the genuine convert, the law, in other words make them give up, believing they are not good enough for God, that is his only weapon when you think about it.
I am afraid that what you preach will simply bring many a sincere person to in effect be under law.
Yes, for sin shall not be your master, for you are not under law but underGrace.
But there is a huge difference between sin not being a persons master, and them living a life of sinless perfection.
Jesus said
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has annointed me to preach the good news to the poor
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
And recovery of sight to the blind
To release the oppressed
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord
Luke4-16-18
I'm sorry, but much of what byou preach, will crush people, and oppress them, it does not allow for the outworking of the Gospel, nor does it allow for the higher points of the law