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Really? Well, take that up with John. He meant what he said clearly and there is no crafty interpretation needed. Stop making excuses for your own lack of finding the real power of Jesus.
1 John 3:9, which reads, “Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.”
and don’t you dare add a word, (practice), in there as these dumbskulls “Christian teachers” have done. What a bunch of baloney and so obviously made up.

Don't you DARE???? C'mon, fabian, why do you continue to cherry pick verses? You don't believe in the Scriptures anyway, isn't that what Masters' teaches? You're supposed to just meditate, be still, and the "truth" will just come to you, right? So why are you even posting one verse from Scripture, and only partially one at that? Your selected snippet does NOT say what you insist it does and this has been explained to you, oh about a half dozen times now. Why do you ignore them and continue to brag that nobody has been able to answer you? When Scripture is given, you say you only want an answer in someone's "own words". When they give you their own words, you call them "dumbskulls" and call their answers "baloney" and "made up". Sounds an awful lot like PRIDE to me, and that IS a sin in God's eyes.

Maybe, for you and the other Mastersites, sin is only the outward acts - sex, murder, stealing, etc., but according to God's way of looking at things, it is the SPIRIT of the law more than the letter of it. Here is the passage, in context, that you so blatantly shortened to pretend it said something it doesn't:

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.

Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister. For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.

Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.

This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

Do you see the point John is making here? You really seem very confused - you reject what the Bible clearly says and you mock and disparage anyone who tries to reason with you. You are far from showing Christ-like love to your brothers and sisters in the Lord. In fact, you have spent the last week and a half stamping your feet and throwing a tantrum because you didn't get to tell Free Republic about the man who you believe can save the world without all us "naysayers" joining in to dispute what Roy Masters preaches. You can't seem to understand that just because a man is charismatic and sounds oh-so-smart he just MIGHT not be telling the truth. It sounds like you have been bewitched by a "angel of light", a "minister of righteousness", who is only leading you further away from the truth and not towards it like he says he is. You are basing everything you've got on an 80 something year old man who believes HE is the messiah. And all he has to prove it is a smooth-talking schtick that sounds true.

You claim you have been freed from all kinds of emotional problems because you have followed his methods and you insist that you ARE now a sinless human being in "God's army" who is gradually earning your place in heaven. The rest of us poor schmoes are all ignorant and will go to hell because we are not sinless like you and because we are ignorant of the power Jesus gives to us to be as sinless as He is. Yet, you cannot even say what Jesus is. Is he a mere man? Is he the Son of God, but not God, not an angel, not a man, what? I hope you understand why we refuse to join in on your delusion. I also really hope and pray that you come to your senses and escape from this false prophet and his hold on you. He may very well have helped you to get over your problems, but your biggest problem is yet to come if you die in your denial of who Jesus is and what he has done for you.