Point being not all who claim to be born again are born again, they are justified by faith. Do you sin?
There is a higher calling, a pressing towards the mark. Yes our sins our covered, the whole world's sin our covered, Jesus only need die once. It is finished. God has not called all people now, when they come they have no freewill to choose.
By the way we can only discuss one thing at a time, just because we have not duscuss something does not mean it is being ignored.
glorydaz said:
Benoni said:
Born again is great catch all term. I wish with all my heart that Christians would stop believing that they are born again the moment they believe. This doctrine, taught almost universally among evangelical people, has been an enormous hindrance in the progress of Christians, for they, thinking they have reached sonship, fail to press toward the mark of full sonship in Him. If men could only see that "that which is born of God cannot sin, for His seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God," (1 Jno. 3:9) then they would not be in such a hurry to declare that they are born again and thus full sons of God. There is a universe of difference between being justified by faith and being born again. Both the thief on the cross and the Philippian jailor believed on Christ and were justified from their sins, but I think we would be very wrong to imagine that they had done any more than "receive Him" and, because they had received Him, power was given to them to become sons of God.
We are speaking of God's elect not all believers. Hear what? the basic salvation message? There is so much more to hear. Basic salvation is nothing but the 30 fold experence.
I see you like to take certain verses and ignore others....the whole Word of God needs to be taken into consideration...John has already told us this...
God's word is not in you if you say you have no sin. The truth is not in you.
1 John 1:8-10 said:
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
So what does John mean when he says we cannot sin? Not what you're claiming, that's for sure.
[quote="1 John 3:9":bm40epht]Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin;
for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
Our sins are covered....sin is not imputed to us. We cannot sin because the blood washes them as white as snow. [quote="Romans 4:7-8":bm40epht]Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.