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To: nonsporting
And that new creature cannot sin

So, assuming you are born again, you are incapable of sinning?

49 posted on 12/04/2011 8:41:20 PM PST by Choose Ye This Day (The thing that counts is not what we could do, but what we actually do. -- Leo Spears)
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To: Choose Ye This Day
And that new creature cannot sin... So, assuming you are born again, you are incapable of sinning?

Each of us consists of the new man and the old man. The new man (the new creature, born of the spirit) cannot sin. The old man, the man of flesh which we still are, we should crucify it daily and live in the spirit.

John in his first epistle speaks to our plight. In chapter 1 he says that we all commit sin. And anyone who says otherwise is a liar (1 John 1:8). Then in chapter 3 he says whosoever is born of God does not commit sin (1 John 3:9). How can this be? Paul wrestles with this very issue in Romans 7:14-25. In chapter 8 he declares we are free from the law if sin and of death. We should be spiritually minded. (Romans 8:6).

64 posted on 12/05/2011 7:48:30 AM PST by nonsporting
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