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No, I don't feel like that research on my part is needed. When interpreting parables, I try to understand them in the context they were given. In this case, Jesus was addressing a common misunderstanding that people who suffer calamity are being punished by God for their misdeeds and those who...

13 There were present at that season some who told Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And Jesus answered and said to them, “Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered such things? 3 I tell...

OK, I understand. I think you are saying it well.

You're right that the word is easily misunderstood. I researched it quite thoroughly a few years ago. This is what I concluded: Furthermore, if we understood sanctification properly, we would know that it is not progressive at all. The word itself means “holiness, i.e., dedication to the Lord...

I see self-sanctification as an identical choice we must make every day. If we choose to walk with God every day in the newness of life, some things will change: Our trust in God will increase (2 Co 10:15). Our knowledge of God will grow (Col 1:10). Our discernment of good and evil will sharpen...

I find self-sanctification in 2 Timothy 2:21, 1 Peter 3:15, and Romans 6:11-13. It is God’s calling for us to consider and act according to the truth that God Himself has sanctified us. We should consider ourselves set apart, culled us out, cleansed of our sins by the blood of Jesus, made one...

I think you are right when you say John wrote these things for us to know we are saved, not so that we could know that other people are saved. We can say for certain this is true of the following passage because John says it explicitly. 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is...

The false doctrine of progressive sanctification is certainly a hinderance. We would do better to put off the flesh instead ofthinking it gets better over time. And for the life of me, I do not see why people can't grasp the fact that the "new man" was "was created according to God, in true...

The OP says A true believer is one who walks in the light, keeps His commandments, has a Christlike walk, loves other Christians, practices righteousness, does not continue in sin, and overcomes the world. He goes on to say "discipleship is the evidence of saving faith" and "as Christians we...

I'm not telling people they are lost if they are not sinless. I am telling them that "the new man" was "created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness" (Eph 4:24). I am telling them that "he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him" (1 Co 6:17). I am telling them that "if...

I'm trying to help people come to a better understanding of the truth.

I know it is hard to understand that the spirit of a saved person is holy and righteous (because he is one spirit with the Lord). And I know it is easy to believe that a saved person's flesh becomes more righteous over time. But sanctification is not progressive. For by one offering He has...

Ok, so it was a poor choice of words. Maybe I should have said, "... claiming that being born again means you don't have as much sin as others do."

Claiming that the flesh can satisfy the righteous requirements of the law denies that we have "true righteousness and holiness" in Christ. You don't see that?

What did I say that was incorrect? The new birth does not give us "the power to stop sinning" because the new birth does not take away the flesh. The flesh remains corrupt, and grows more corrupt as time goes on (Eph 4:22). And it still belongs to us. We have a choice after we are saved to put...

No, I agree with John. You turn his black and white statements into gray statements. John said, 4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin...

Sounds like you are wattering down what it means to be born of God, denying the "true righteousness and holiness" of the new man (Eph 4:24) and claiming that being born again means you don't sin as much as others do.

8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well; 9 but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is...

It says, "although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful" (Ro 1:21). It doesn't say, "although they knew about God...". So, you may want to bring in concepts that relate to our intimate personal relationship with the Lord who lives in our brought-to-life new hearts to...

I was convicted of my sins starting when I was a church-going child, but I chose not to repent until I was a teanager. When a high school buddy asked me to go to church with him, I agreed. I decided that morning that I would rather give up sin and go to heaven than die in my sins and go to hell...