Sin is only attributed to us if it is willful, and a true Christian does not willfully sin, so if he does what is called a sin, it is not attributed to him as a sin, since it wasn't willful, and the blood of Christ had already paid for it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you are saying that when a true Christian commits a bad action (one which would be considered a sin for a non-Christian who did the same) that in no way can it have been willful, and therefore it is not a sin. In other words, a true Christian cannot sin.
I hope I'm not putting words into your mouth and please correct me if I am.
I hope I'm not putting words into your mouth and please correct me if I am.
No, you don't need corrected, this is how I am personally coming to see things now days, and today discussing the fact that God has chosen us since the foundations of the world, and now with predestination coming into the picture, it even makes more sense.
I was beginning to believe that it was just my age, when you get to the point that God has helped you conquer most of your dragons, and you are no longer fearful of loosing your salvation, that you begin to believe and understand 1 Jn 3:9. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
I know that a lot of people seem to think that if you actually believed that you couldn't sin, you would let down your guard, and even sin more, but I don't think it works that way.
Have you ever obtained a goal, and then proceeded to even go farther because obtaining the goal was most of the battle, and once you had won, you had no inhibitions holding you back, like getting your second wind for the first time, and then not wanting to quit.
I really believe we are in the end times, and it was promised to us, that.........
Acts 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: V-18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: V-19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: