So you never get angry anymore? Never a lustful thought? You are walking perfection now like Jesus Himself? I would also like to point out that my heart has been transformed by Christ and you have ABSOLUTLY NOTHING!! to say about it. How can you even presume to tell me about my salvation? You better educate yourself before throwing accusations and arrogantly proclaiming others salvation status. Have you read my testimony? Do you know me at all, or did you jump to a rash and premature judgment of me from one comment? I don't know who you think YOU are, but you are defiantly not who judges or tells me about MY relationship with the one true God through the blood of Jesus Christ, and only by His grace, and made apparent in me through the regenerative power of the Holy Spirit. I HAVE changed brother, if you knew anything about me you'd know that too. I'd watch it with those snap judgments if I were you brother, it makes you look bad.
My issue was with you claiming that one can "occasionally sin so long as they do not do it all the time" and making a distinction between that and sins of ignorance.
In other words you clearly stated that one can rebel against God "every now and then" and not be condemned for it.
Yet you don't address that point to me at all. Instead you approach me in an accusatory and brash manner and by doing so COMPLETELY IGNORE MY PREMISE.
Why do you do that?
Here again is the quote I am referring to...
I agree once you are saved you COULD TECHNIQULY choose to do wrong, or sin away just like before, the Spirit will make it impossible to actually continuously do so. Even if you try to fight it at first, the Spirit will win. So while I say logically it is possible for a saved Christian to live in sin, Spiritually I say we can not (please understand I see a difference in "living in sin" and committing the occasional sin here or there or realizing something you've always done was a sin through the guidance of the Holy Spirit and then correcting it), and therefore agree can not lose our salvation in this way.
You plainly put sin into three categories.
1. Living in sin = unabashed sinnning. ie. sinning all the time.
2. Occasionally sinning. Sinning here or there.
3. Sins of ignorance.
You have stated that it is ONLY the first category which should not apply to a Christian. You make allowance for the second and third categories.
The Bible speaks of TWO categories of sin not three.
1. Sins of rebellion, disobedience unto unrighteousness, sin unto death.
2. Sins of ignorance, sin not unto death.
It is ONLY the second category which may apply to a Christian and it is for those things that a Christian receives chastisement and then puts the lesson learned to use by changing their behaviour.
The first category is out of the question.
Do I ever get angry? Of course I do. Yet anger is not a sin. Only unrighteous anger is sin. I get angry at sin all the time especially when I hear news reports or see the destructiveness of sin right in front of my face. God is angry with the wicked every day but God is not sinning.
Paul wrote...
Eph 4:21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
Eph 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Eph 4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
Eph 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Eph 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Eph 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Eph 4:27 Neither give place to the devil.
Eph 4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Eph 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Eph 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Eph 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Eph 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Here Paul is teaching what it means to be a Christian. There is simply no room for wickedness in that, not even occasionally here and there.
Why not address the substance of what I write instead of responding in an accusatory manner whereby you just blow off my premise? Why do you do that?