[drstevej]

***Easy-believism is dispelled in my book by the fact that logically speaking, if all you need is faith, you can feel free to sin without repentance, maim, murder and pillage, and you're still going to Heaven.***

Faith and regeneration are inseparable. Sin in the believer is restrained by the Holy Spirit and the Father's discipline. Your logic fails to take these two biblical realities into account.

[Conservative til I die]

Don't think I'm trying to be a funny guy here, but is this "faith and regeneration" idea so simplistic as to say that once you have faith, i.e., find God a/k/a accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior, that you are no longer capable of sin? Or real important sin (who draws the distinction?)???

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Sin in the believer is restrained by the Holy Spirit and the Father's discipline

This is confusing to me. In Romans 14 Paul is speaking otherwise. He, more than anyone, teaches about appropriate Christian behavior and judgement by God. Paul says "Every one of us will have to give an account of himself before God......Use the faith you have as your rule of life in the sight of God. Happy the man whose conscience does not condemn what he has chosen to do!..........Whatever does not accord with one's belief is sinful."

How do Calvinists reconcile this? Paul is clearly saying believers in Christ can and do sin.