Yes, I no longer have the "sin nature". Again, in Ephesians chapter 2, Paul said that we WERE, past tense, children of wrath by nature. Well, what changed? What should have changed is that we got a new nature when we were born again and we became one spirit with the Lord and our bodies became the temple of the Holy Ghost. This whole "Christians still have a sinful nature" garbage came from a terrible INTERPRETATION and not a translation of the Greek word sarx which simply means "flesh". Again, contextually, Paul was referring to the fact that somebody who merely has an outward circumcision in the foreskin of their flesh can never truly serve a God Who is Spirit or never truly worship Him in spirit and in truth without having been truly circumcised in the heart or spirit. That's the context...whether or not anybody likes it.
I am the same individual, even as I plainly stated in my signature, but I'm not sure what a snapperhead is. In any case, I trust that it's just another of your trademark false accusations and insults. As I recall, you regularly chose to go the route of personal insults as opposed to actually addressing the content of my posts and I trust that we both know why that is. Incidentally, everything that I've written thus far, especially in this thread, is scriptural. If not, then why not refute it? Because you can't? I know, I know...because I'm a snapperhead, right? If insults were a fruit of the Spirit, then you'd be a virtual garden.There was someone on CC earlier this year with the same username who was a real snapperhead. If this is the same guy, and it looks like it is because of everything he's written so far, your time will be better served putting him on ignore.
Feel free to fight the good fight, my Brother, you know its always a good thing to share God's grace, but ever since I put the perfect people on ignore, life got a whole lot more blissful.
So, Pharisees taught freedom from sin via Christ? Just more of your own childish nonsense. Feel free to ignore the truth all that you want to, but God will still hold you accountable to the same on His day of judgment.
That you no longer have a sin nature.
I do no longer have a sin nature and you need to get rid of your own, if you still have one, by being born again. My inner man truly longs for God Himself, the things of God and the people of God. When I was unregenerate, none of that was true.
No one who is born of God PRACTICES sin. Again, the new creation which Paul taught of in scripture still needed to be renewed in the spirit of its mind and so forth because there is a sanctification process. I don't PRACTICE sin, but I still do sin at times. The primary reasons for the same are either that I don't fully understand what is actually sinful in God's eyes because my mind hasn't yet fully been renewed or because I momentarily stumble and fall by yielding to a certain temptation. Even when such occurs, I'm quick to be convicted and quick to repent and quick to find cleansing via the blood of Christ. You? Are you some sort of sin monger who can't stop sinning? If you are, then, again, I'd recommend giving your life to Christ. He is the Vine and we are the branches. If we're abiding in Him, then we ought not to be bringing forth bad fruit.
Friend its called the flesh..that I must crucify daily...if you say you have no sin? Your the one who needs to come into the truth. Now when YOU SIN...where does that desire come from? Answer that?
Answer one question...do you sin? If so..where does that desire come from? If you say you don't? your a liar according to Gods Word and the truth is not in you.
Where do you find a daily crucifying of one's flesh in scripture?
Feel free to quote me where I ever said that. You can't. If you have to resort to straw man arguments, then that ought to tell you something.
Sure, no problem:
No, it cannot HABITUALLY sin or PRACTICE sin. Hey, that's your testimony and not mine, so maybe you should examine yourself to see if you're even in the faith. I do sin at times, but certainly not HABITUALLY and I certainly don't PRACTICE sin. If we truly live our lives the way that we're supposed to as Christians by humbly abiding in the Vine and by humbly seeking the empowerment of the Holy Spirit in our lives, then sinning isn't really an issue because neither Christ nor the Holy Spirit are going to lead us into sin. Quite frankly, I don't think of sin nearly as often as you seemingly do. Instead, I'm much more concerned with finding out exactly what God wants me to do on any given day, as opposed to what He doesn't want me to do (sin), so we seem to have totally different mindsets. Christians are supposed to not even have a consciousness of sin anymore in that their consciences are supposed to be purged by the blood of Christ, but some of you seem to be enamored in not only sin itself, but also the constant thoughts of the same.
Clearly its the flesh that we are to crucify daily...EVEN THOUGH THE BIBLE TEACHES THE EXACT OPPOSITE?
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