***Blameless = sinless; unless one wishes to adopt the position that there are sins that carry with them no blame.***
Blameless may also mean a person who seeks forgivness for their sins as soon as they stumble.
Paul says that because of Christ's death on our behalf and by the power of God WE can alos be presented blameless to God on judgement day...
"And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,"
- Col 1
If anything is clear from the above verse it is that blamelessness does not mean "sinless". The people described, while guilty of evil deeds, can still be considered "holy and blameless" through the death of Christ on their behalf.
"If anything is clear from the above verse it is that blamelessness does not mean "sinless". The people described, while guilty of evil deeds, can still be considered "holy and blameless" through the death of Christ on their behalf."
But what about WITHOUT belief in Christ? Can a man or woman be holy and blameless in spite of his/her sins without belief in Christ?
Job did not believe in Christ when he was blameless.
Zecharaiah and Elizabeth did not believe in Christ when she was blameless.
He had not been conceived yet, let alone born, when they lived (assuming for the sake of discussion that Job was an actual person and not a purely literary figure).