What odd sect teaches this stuff?
One who believes that God is the wielder of the almighty Baggie;
rather than the wielder of the almighty markmaker:
Posted on 07/12/2012 10:33:02 AM PDT by fabian
It actually is not possible to sin once God seals you into his family. You do not know the real power of the spirit.What odd sect teaches this stuff?
Doesn’t matter...he never would have commanded the it for all to read if it were not attainable! That is commonsense.
in the last ten minutes?
What odd sect teaches this stuff?
One who believes that God is the wielder of the almighty Baggie;
rather than the wielder of the almighty markmaker:
But then the man claimed the experience of entire sanctification for himself.
I said something quite profound: “You've got to be kidding!”
“No,” he replied. “I'm not kidding. Holiness is never a kidding matter. God has granted me the victorious life, and I give Him all the glory.”
“What do you do with your pride?” I asked. “Seems to me that if you’ve won the medal for being the most humble man and you wear it, they should take it away. Isn't it kind of sinful to tell me that you're entirely sanctified? In fact, I think that if someone were entirely sanctified, he wouldn't even know it.”
I don't remember what he said, but I do remember that he was quite angry, and I didn't have to sit at the same table with him anymore because he avoided me the rest of the week. That made both of us happier.
I heard a couple of years later that he had left the ministry because of a moral failure.
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A sinless life...entire sanctification...is NOT possible. Anyone who says it is is deceived. It is a lie from the pit of Hell and it smells like smoke.
no..what smells like smoke is you guys denying the very power of the holy spirit. The fact is that on Pentecost the apostles were filled with the spirit and at that very moment became powerful for the truth. They would not have had that if they had kept on back sliding into sin and that is why you weak Christians never really gain much ground. You deny the very fact of real power over sin that God has granted us!
Once Save - Always Saved doesn’t work for humans because we all sin.
If we are not sinning any more, we are six feet under in a grave.
Not by Paul’s doing, but by God’s doing.
Isn’t there one person on this thread that no longer gets mad nor prideful? Those are the roots of all sins. Master patience and not sinning is easy!
....Or do your very best efforts anyways.
I see no anger in the responses. People seem to be dealing with you very gently.
Maybe you have a very limited view of what sin is.
Do you think you have complete communion with God? That you know His perfect Will for you every minute of the day and you are in it?
You believe it is God’s perfect Will for you to be sitting at a computer arguing with people on Free Republic?
That is why there is only one punishment, no matter how minor the symptom may be.
“not possible to sin once God seals you...”
Preposterous!!!!
What about Galatians 5:4 - Christ is become of no effect unto you,whatsoever of you are justified by the law, you are fallen from grace ...
the Christian Galatian church had accepted Jesus but was screwing up and Paul could see that they were in danger of losing their salvation and was warning them. Salvation is not guaranteed. Our free will can and does choose evil even after we believe in Jesus because we are not gods - we are fallen humans.
Christ did NOT say 'born again' to Nicodemus. He said born from above.... verse 13 makes the instructional to Nicodemus and then to any who read His words quite plain. To 'see' the kingdom of God one must be born from above, just as Luke described the conception of Christ.
What was it that the serpent whispered into the woman's ear????
Because he knew he was under surveillance....????
Rom 6:9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.I find it quite interesting that he discusses sin with believers--not as a past issue, but as a present challenge to overcome and deal with.
Rom 6:10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
Rom 6:11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Rom 6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
Rom 6:13 Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness.
Rom 6:14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
Rom 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Rom 6:16 Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Rom 6:17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.
Rom 6:18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
Don't you find that interesting as well?
Yes, I can and do know His will for me every moment as I live in the momment , and not in my head. It is a natural and blessed way to live and very very simple. However, it demands courage as we must be honest with love, and that causes demonic anger in people whom we love...often. This is a big reason why believers, or semi-believers are not strong...cowardice. We need to be salt of the earth! But how? Go to the copingstrategiescd.com and you will see the path there. So effective that the military is using it now!
Thank you for those! Slaves to righteousness...exactly my point here. Once we are born again...we are in His army and it is a very precious thing. He is not going to let us go, just as once the rebellion in heaven took place and a third of the angels were cast out with Lucifer...those left had made their choice for God. That was finished. So with us upon salvation.
The 'serpent' or the first rebel does not care IF he is under surveillance... he has already been sentenced to death and he wants company when his being is destroyed. After all look what he tempted Christ with by twisting the WORD, IF Christ would bend His knee unto the shinning one. There has been nothing on the stage of performing arts that holds a candle to the deceiver. He is about to get his last and biggest role since he rebelled. He is going to get to play the role of 'Jesus', once again twisting the WORD for to deceive.
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