Which is basically what I said.
Let God decide who is sinning because they're not even in Christ to begin with, or are sinning themselves out of Christ. It's just not something that can be nailed down at any one moment in time in a person's life from an outside perspective.
This statement is not anything like what @
farouk said.
He did unsave anyone.!
This is what I'm referring to in what he said:
"I believe the blessed Cross of the Lord Jesus is glorious success:
not limited by the shortcomings and weaknesses of those whom He has redeemed."
That's what grace is all about. Salvation is not based on behavioral perfection. The grace of God fills in between where you're at now and perfection. That being true let's not categorically judge imperfection in professing Christians as equating to not being saved. But that is what you were basically asking me to do.
And just so we're clear, the cross of Christ IS limited by unbelief. This is so fundamental to the gospel message that I'm amazed anyone can think grace is so gracious that it covers unbelief. Unbelief--the rejection of Christ--is a weakness and shortcoming that the cross of Christ can NOT overcome. That's not even fair debate. What is fair debate is if once you truly believe you can not shrink back to not believing.
You don't get it at all. I am not talking about sins that are BIG sin.
I understood what you were saying. I've familiar with the scenario you painted.
I know a wonderful Christian man, that has been a Christian for over 50 yrs. He told me, and he is in his 80's that if he knows he has sinned, even a little sin he always repents right away because he might forget and God would hold it against him.
Andrew Wommack, believed the same thing. He was always repenting for every little things because he was afraid. And I can tell you that man is not a sinful man. Believers can be slaves to the Law!
This is not Muller's argument about law keeping. He says law keeping arouses and makes you a slave to
sinful passions.
What you are describing is Paul's argument--enslavement, if you will, to the
WAY of the law--thinking a person is justified, and therefore acceptable for salvation, by
WAY of the effort of law keeping. This is the bondage the Galatians were subjecting themselves to.
If that was all Muller was arguing for I would not be resisting him. But this is not the point Muller is making. The enslavement he is talking about is the slavery to
sin produced by the law, even in believers trusting in Christ, thinking that just reading the law and
wanting to keep it binds the believer to sin who is seeking to be obedient to what he sees written in the Bible. No, the law arouses sin in
unbelievers, not believers who's flesh is crucified in Christ and therefore released from the marriage license of the law that
used to have the power and authority to bind them in marital bondage to flesh
when flesh was alive.
A marriage contract--in this case the law--
no longer has the authority to bind a person and their sin together when one of them--in this case sinful flesh--has died. But Muller says the law still has the authority to do that even though sinful flesh has been nailed to the cross with Christ and, therefore, the marriage legally ended by reason of death. He says this in direct contradiction to Paul:.
"...knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin. 7 for he who has died is freed from sin." (Romans 6:6-7 NASB)
As you can see this is true for those
who are crucified in Christ--that is
believers. It is unbelievers, those whose old sinful self is still alive, for whom they and their sin are firmly held in marital union by the law which acts like a marital contract to hold them in that relationship with sinful flesh.
