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To: Dr. Eckleburg
God willing, as we are sanctified we learn to loath our sins and desire to obey God more every day. But as Paul reminds us, if we say we have no sin the truth is not in us.

How do you reconcile the idea that you are sanctified, and that you have sin, but you have no sin, being sanctified, but you have impulsion to sin, being saved, but you sin. Either you are are holy or you are not.

606 posted on 11/04/2010 10:53:15 AM PDT by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so..)
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To: MarkBsnr
"How do you reconcile the idea that you are sanctified, and that you have sin, but you have no sin, being sanctified, but you have impulsion to sin, being saved, but you sin."

The two most common means are electro-shock therapy and taking a big hit on the Calvin bong.

609 posted on 11/04/2010 11:00:54 AM PDT by Natural Law ("opera Christi non deficiunt, sed proficiunt")
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To: MarkBsnr

This is basic Christianity 101, Mark.

While we are still human and not God, and while we still sin because our sin nature is never completely eradicated by our sanctification, yet we are ACQUITTED OF OUR SINS BY GOD WHO ACCEPTS CHRIST AS PAYMENT FOR OUR SINS.

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." -- 2 Corinthians 5:21


"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin." -- Hebrews 10:16-18

The Scriptures do not say we don't sin ever again. It says God does not impute the guilt of those sins to us because Christ has taken on that guilt and made restitution to God for it. And thus God remembers our sins no more, knowing that the Holy Spirit is leading us according to Christ's righteousness, and not our own.

"And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight" -- Colossians 1:21-22

"Unblameable in His sight." Not sinless. But without blame because Christ has taken on that blame and reconciled it with the perfect judgment of God by His one-time offering for the sins of His flock.

Read the Bible, Mark. It's all there.

639 posted on 11/04/2010 11:52:04 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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