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Can you continue to knowingly sin and remain a Christian?

Jethro Bodine said:
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.
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Again, the laws about animal sacrifices have been done away with (see Hebrews 7:12).
 
Jethro Bodine said:
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.
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Is that what you did?

I would say that in the seconds that you were tempted to lie, you considered your options, and decided to lie because you feared offending the person that asked you the question. In the seconds before you spoke the lie, there came a motivation in your heart to lie to the person. You lied because you wanted to.

I have never had anyone cook me a lousy meal and then ask me how it was.

But I am a very honest person; and if someone cooked me a truly lousy meal and then asked me how it was, I would tell them something like, "you could have done better; it's not very good."

I have commented in such a manner about lousy meals in the past. One time the chicken was rubbery and I made it clear that I didn't like it very much. Of course, I think that it was my mother who made it; so I guess you can say that the social pressure to give credence to the food was absent.
 
Jethro Bodine said:
A man is not declared righteous by how much like God he is. That's the works justification gospel condemned in scripture.
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Is God righteous?
Justified?
Wouldn't being like Him illustrate what He did for us at the cross?
The Law could not provide righteousness or justification, as men still walked in the flesh instead of in the Spirit before Jesus' resurrection and the gifts of repentance and rebirth from His Father's seed..
 
Hopeful said:
Is God righteous?
Justified?
Wouldn't being like Him illustrate what He did for us at the cross?
The Law could not provide righteousness or justification, as men still walked in the flesh instead of in the Spirit before Jesus' resurrection and the gifts of repentance and rebirth from His Father's seed..
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You serve a works justification gospel. It seems you did not fully shed your Catholic teachings. You're still trying to become a saved person by being righteous. That is the very definition of the works justification gospel.
 
Jethro Bodine said:
That goes without saying.
The question is whether or not you're going to choose to be led by the Spirit in any one situation. You will more and more as Father God trains you, his child, up in the ways of righteousness.
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Thank God for not allowing any man to be tempted above what he can handle. (1 Cor 10:13)
With the old man/flesh destroyed, walking in the Spirit comes naturally to those with a divine nature.
 
Jethro Bodine said:
No, not a lifestyle of sinning, but rather, the righteous struggle with sin without the weight of an erroneous, sinless perfection doctrine hanging over my head.

Grace is not a license to live a life of deliberate and thoughtless sin. That is the life of an unbeliever. But for us believers, grace is the agent by which God the Father patiently and lovingly grows his children up into the image of himself, like his Son and our big brother, Jesus, is the image of our Father.
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It may be nice to keep shooting for the 40 or 50% level of righteousness, but it will not be good enough.
You are going after your own (ill-named) works salvation there.
 
Hopeful said:
It may be nice to keep shooting for the 40 or 50% level of righteousness, but it will not be good enough.
You are going after your own (ill-named) works salvation there.
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Ever-increasing righteous behavior is how one's calling and election is confirmed, not 100% perfect behavior.

You serve a works justification gospel because you think you become righteous by being righteous.
 
justbyfaith said:
I may fail to wear tzitzut and tallit, or to blow the chofar in the new moon.

That would be a violation of the law; and therefore sin (1 John 3:4).
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If it is a sin for you to fail doing those thing...do them without fail.
It is not a sin for me.

"Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks." (Rom 14:1-6)
 
Jethro Bodine said:
Going out on a limb here. I think you have a pride problem, lol.
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The only pride that is in me is concerning the great humility that is in me :wink.

But normally, when we point the finger at someone else, there are three fingers pointing back at us (Matthew 7:1-5, Luke 6:41-42).
 
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