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To: faithplusnothing1

So you are saying, then, that once saved or "born again" you can go out and commit any kind of sin at all and it counts for naught?

Utter nonsense to me.

We are responsible for our decisions to act in certain ways!!!

Do you live in America under American law??

Then you should understand this say kind of responsibility toward Christ and your faith.


1,147 posted on 03/06/2007 8:36:19 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Salvation

When I am free from the penalty of sin, I can now live my life led by the Holy Spirit. I am sealed with that Spirit and he guides me. I now have a new nature. I am still responsible to God's law and American law but it won't send me to Hell if I break one of them. The law never saved anyone, it was only to show that we could never keep them all. When you believe, The Spirit causes your old sin nature to be transformed into a new nature that is in the likeness of God. It doesn't happen overnight, but He does the work in me. No one can live a life pleasing to God without the Holy Spirit.

Read Galatians. This book is all about the Jews trying to put the Gentiles under the law and Paul showing them they are not justified by their works. These verses tell us this.


Gal 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.


Gal 2:17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, [is] therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.


Gal 2:18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.


Gal 2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.


Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.


Gal 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.


1,216 posted on 03/07/2007 7:27:25 AM PST by faithplusnothing1
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