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Hi Suze, You are right, we do not all have the same definition for sin, hence the confusion. Sin is twofold, a transgression against God's law and secondly, an inner pollution or depravity. In regard to the first, I like John Wesley's definition of sin, 'a voluntary transgression against a...

If you take the time to read the context, 1 Tim 1:13,14, Paul was referring to his past sinful ways, not his present status. You have taken 1 Jn 1:8 out of its context to mean something that John did not intend.

I have noticed that none of you have responded to the Scriptures I posted. How can you justify your sinfulness in the light of these verses? All that you have posted is contradicted by those verses. It's time to give up your sinning and your dishonoring the Lord Jesus Christ.

Basing doctrine on questionable dreams is down right foolishness.

I had an email from what I thought was my internet provider requesting an update of my credit card details. Needless to say, it wasn't my provider and they put a sizable amount on my card. Fortunately, my bank, after some investigating, refunded the amount. I am more the wiser after this incident.

Appropriate Scriptures: 'Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?' Rom 6:1,2. 'We know that our old self was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we might no longer be enslaved to sin...

"Sinning religion is the belief that Christians cannot avoid sin, that in fact, every Christian sins' in thought, word, and deed' every day. This pessimism concerning the possibilities of the Christian life is very pervasive and widespread, among Lutherans, Reformed, and even some Arminians. Not...

Israel's redemption did not lay in keeping the Law but rather by the way of faith. Mankind has always been made right with God on the basis of faith, not Law. The flesh is not mastered by surrender but rather by crucifixion. 'Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have CRUCIFIED the flesh with its...

It is not all God or all man. It is a co-operation between the two.

"WHOEVER DOES NOT ABIDE (remain) in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned" Jn 15:6 NRSV. " KEEP YOURSELVES in the love of God" Jude 20. NRSV. "for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God THROUGH FAITH' Gal 3:26 NRSV.

I remember as a Bible College student of many years ago, taking God at His word while hungering and thirsting for righteousness, that He would indeed fill me. Never will I forget the day God came and filled me with His Spirit and His overwhelming love. For days I lived with His manifest presence...

Being 'in Christ' is something I enter into through faith and the Holy Spirit's action. Being 'in the vine' is a metaphor of being in Christ. The act of abiding or remaining in the vine is an act of faith. Where faith ceases to be, we cease to be 'in Christ' or to use Christ's metaphor, cease to...

It is funny how the 'must sin crowd' ignore all the Scriptures that promise deliverance from sin and pull out the 1 John 1:8 card, always out of context. The truth is that they just love their sin and won't admit to it. One of the true signs of regeneration is a hatred of all sin and a longing...

It is clear from Scripture, as sighted above, that sinning is not inevitable for the Christian. God has provided His enabling grace to make the believer an overcomer of sin in THIS life not the next. Further, God has provided in the atonement of Christ and the ministry of the Holy Spirit...

Yes, the OP is about maturity. But using your example of a tree that grows, there is a disease within it that is hindering its growth. Likewise, there is a spiritual disease within our hearts that dwarfs our spiritual growth, indwelling sin. If we are to grow fully, we must allow the Holy Spirit...

I got this off the Net which I found help for myself and my own theological position. 'Wesleyan Covenant Theology integrates classical covenant concepts with Arminian emphasis on free will, prevenient grace and sanctification, shaping both Wesleyan doctrine and practical discipleship'.

As I stated in another post, I am NOT a Calvinist but very much Arminian. It appears that CT is not a peculiar doctrine to either Calvinist of Arminian as both groups hold to it.

Thank you so much for your helpful post. It seems I am almost a believer in Covenant Theology.

Yes, you made an assumption, a wrong one.

Why am I not in the nursery? Because I hold to a different view?