That my friend is the teaching of the Pentacostal religion.
It is also a teaching from God.
Just as fig seeds can NEVER bear grapes, neither can God's seed bear liars, thieves, or adulterers.
I do believe in 1 John 3:9.
I have actually read and understand the original Greek in that verse where I posted it for you, WHY dont YOU accept the literal original grammar and understanding of....."Practice known sin".
So you believe that God's seed won't
make a habit of bearing liars, thieves, or adulterers.
Do you realize how that sounds ?
Instead of this back and forth, why dont you admitt that you do not believe what God said in
Romans 7:14–24; and
1 John 1:8.
I believe both.
You seem to be unaware that much of Rom 7 is the narrative of Paul' s past while still trying unsuccessfully to serve God according to the Law.
His reference to the past in verse 5 is the basis of that which followed. "
For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death."
And, Rom 7:23 is answered by Rom 8:2.
And, Rom 7:24 was answered in Rom 6:6.
1 John 1:8, along with verses 6 and 10, address those walking in darkness-sin.
Sinners are the ones who cannot say they have no sins, that they know God, or that they have fellowship with God.
You are being deceived! You are living in deception!
Wrong.
I have escaped the deceptions of those foisting off Christianity as the body of Christ and full of sin.
Romans 3:23...."all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" was written by YOUR Apostle, Paul who says that among all people he was the chief sinner!
It was
cited by Paul in order to show the Jews that just because they had the Law, it didn't fulfill their need for a Savior.
The Jews were no better off than the Gentiles !
It actually boggles my mind that anyone would be so deluded to think that they do not sin while living in a body corrupted by sin from birth.
My body is at the beck and call of my new mind.
It can't do anything without my prior authorization. (Excluding autonomous things like sneezing, blinking, coughing, etc)
My body has been destroyed, (Rom 6:6, Gal 5:24) and I have been raised with Christ to walk in newness of life. (Rom 6:4)
I am a new creature, and no longer of Adam's seed.
Now, I agree that Giving in to sin is
no longer normal for the child of God, and the rest of
1 John 3:9 gives the reason: “No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.”
That refutes your previous sentences.
Which is true for you ?
Does the seed of God bear sinners, or not ?
It is also true that A genuine Christian has God’s “seed” and will not “deliberately, knowingly, and habitually” sin.
Thy won't sin at all.
However, that is a long way from then saying......."I do not sin!"
I must ask then, what was it you repented of, if not sin ?
It is written..."For
godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death." (2 Cor 7:10)
I also agree with you in that you are No longer a slave to sin, and believers are continually transformed into the image of Christ.
Your POV seems to be that they will never arrive at that transformation.
I wish you would reconsider.
BUT......sin still impacts believers, but whoever is born of God does not sin in that they do not knowingly, deliberately, or habitually sin. THAT IS THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING!
Sin does indeed impact believers: but that sin is committed by the unbelieving, unrepentant, unregenerated, unreborn of God's seed, around them..
