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Can you continue to knowingly sin and remain a Christian?

Jethro Bodine said:
It's not really that simple.
Things like fear, and immaturity, lack of vigilance, etc. cause us sin when we had no intention of doing so.
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When we sin, it is because we have been drawn away by our own lust and enticed (James 1:14-16). There is always an intention of doing so. We cannot sin as believers unless we want to sin (Romans 8:12 (kjv, nlt)).
 
Hopeful said:
If you are truly sorry for your sins, you won't do them anymore.
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I wish that were true, but there are compelling forces at work in our flesh and in the world that cause us to commit sin we had no intention or desire to commit. But as we mature, we learn through knowledge to master those compelling forces and get tricked by them less and less.
 
justbyfaith said:
When we sin, it is because we have been drawn away by our own lust and enticed (James 1:14-16). There is always an intention of doing so.
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No, speak for yourself. You do not speak for me. My experience is different.

A big part of maturing in the faith is to stop assuming everybody's experience has to be just like yours. No, it doesn't. We all have our own struggles with sin and mine does not include ALWAYS having the intention to sin when I do. If that true for you, then, fine. Just don't project that on to me, thank you.
 
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Jethro Bodine said:
When you are forgiven by the grace of God you have no guilt remaining for your sin. That's how you got born again. And that same forgiveness continues to cleanse you of the guilt of your present sins and so you remain in your guilt-free, reconciled state with God.
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So, the Holy Spirit ceases to convict you of your sins when you become a believer, is what you are saying?
 
Jethro Bodine said:
My experience is different.
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Your experience is different from the teaching of the Holy Bible (in James 1:14-16)?

I think that in thinking that, you must be self-deceived; because the Bible is the word of truth; and any time that we think of our experience as being different from its teaching, it is not our "experience" that is right. It is the teaching of the Holy Bible.

So, give me an example of a time that you have sinned (as concerning walking according to the flesh) when you had no intention of doing so.
 
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justbyfaith said:
It seems to me that they are the same thing.

Maybe you could elaborate a bit on how you think they are not.
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If you break the law by not bringing the sacrifice of animal to the altar, you have not sinned.
But if, for example, you sin by not loving your neighbor as yourself, you have broken the law.

Not all 'breaking' of the law is sin, anymore. And so John did not say breaking the law is sin. He said sin is breaking the law.
 
Jethro Bodine said:
If you break the law by not bringing the sacrifice of animal to the altar, you have not sinned.
But if, for example, you sin by not loving your neighbor as yourself, you have broken the law.

Not all 'breaking' of the law is sin, anymore. And so John did not say breaking the law is sin. He said sin is breaking the law.
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The laws about animal sacrifices have been done away with; having been fulfilled by Jesus dying on the Cross.

If I transgress the law by not loving my neighbor as myself, then I have sinned.

So, the transgression of the law is sin; just as it is the other way around.
 
Jethro Bodine said:
We all have our own struggles with sin and mine does not include ALWAYS having the intention to sin when I do.
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I think that you are trying to make excuses for your sins.

When we sin, we always have the intention of doing so, even if it is only in the final moments before we actually commit the sin.
 
Jethro Bodine said:
I wish that were true, but there are compelling forces at work in our flesh and in the world that cause us to commit sin we had no intention or desire to commit.
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We may have no desire or intention to commit sin until after we are tempted.

But temptation plays on our own desires and therefore, when we give in to it, we are doing only what we want to do.
 
justbyfaith said:
But temptation plays on our own desires and therefore, when we give in to it, we are doing only what we want to do.
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Like I say, speak for yourself.
Sometimes I sin before I have considered the way of the Lord.
But if when you sin it's always sin because you want to, that's you, not everyone.
 
justbyfaith said:
So, the transgression of the law is sin; just as it is the other way around.
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Start listening to yourself.
If what you say is true, that transgression of the law is sin, then every time you have failed to bring the sacrifice to God for sin required by the law you have sinned. I'm going to guess, though, that you're going to continue to insist that your blanket statement that transgressing the law is sin is true.
 
justbyfaith said:
So, give me an example of a time that you have sinned (as concerning walking according to the flesh) when you had no intention of doing so.
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Next time someone asks you how the meal was that they cooked and you lie that it was great before you even have a chance to think about it remember this conversation. Don't bother posting some pious assertion that you never do that and never will. Don't want to hear it.
 
Jethro Bodine said:
Which is exactly why John did not say transgression of the law is sin. He said sin is transgression of the law.
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But the transgression of the law is sin.

Since the laws about the animal sacrifices are done away with, to not sacrifice an animal in order to produce atonement is not a violation of the law.
 
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