Repentance

No Christian can backslide Whosoever is born of God doth not commit(practice) sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot (practice) sin, because he is born of God.

 

Do a search on everything I have posted and I am sure your questions will be answered. :wavey:

 

I understand what you are saying in this post modern age with the rejection of absolutes where people hold to personal experience above the written word as yours is a common argument today to deny what is written.
Such an approach is a whole lot like date rape. We all understand the scenario.Two people alone on a date and things get romantic. As time progress things get heated up. She has allowed him to go too far and now decides he needs to stop. He interprets the stop as full steam ahead because he has been allowed to go as far as he has. So they end up in date rape. That is what you are doing with scripture. It says;
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit (practice) sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot (practice) sin, because he is born of God.

I simply accept what is said.

 

You response proves you do not believe what is written.

 

There is nothing rude about it and it is necessary. It is no different then the answers I get from DHK.

 

His contridiction proves he does not believe.

 

Thank you for your concern and great wisdom.

 

Like I said your answer proves you do not believe what God has written.

 

First off the Greek has nothing to do with it as it reads like it is translated. You are incorrect to imply that the Greek means something other then what it says in the English. Again you simply cannot accept what the bible says. That is so sad. In the Matt. passage that you gave, the Lord does not say keeping the commandments makes one perfect nor was He infiring it does. Why do you add to the scriptures? He says be perfect like your heavenly Father. It is not about what we do, but about being perfect.

Jesus was speaking to a people who thought because they had been given the law, were God's chosen, and Abrahams children, that they had a direct shot into heaven. In fact some of the rabbi's taught that no Jew would ever go to hell even if he did not believe in God because God had stationed someone at the gates of hell to snatch that Jew and toss him into heaven at the last moment.

The Lord is trying to overcome their false beliefs. He has just given some really new information to them on the sermon on the mount, at least new in regards to what the Pharisees were teaching, as He was tearing down their self righteousness. Now the Lord puts the final nail in the coffin when He says;
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

You say he does not mean that, but scripture says he does so who should we believe? By the way He meant it. That is the only way in. We have to be as perfect as God! However the Jew at this point like you thought He was speaking about the law. He was not. What should have happened at this time is for them to cry out with “how then can we be saved?” They knew they were not perfect like the heavenly Father. If they had asked He would have told them how to be perfect like their heavenly Father. They never learned how because they did not ask. However even though you have not asked let me explain it. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. Simple huh. We are made as perfect like our heavenly Father by faith. Again Jesus meant what He said! You must be perfect like your heavenly Father to get into heaven.
So yes the Lord did mean what He said, but like the Jew you missed the point because you apply it improperly.

Now about 1john 3:9 it also means what it says except this time in the Greek there is a little different meaning then how the English comes across. That is the reason for the brackets with the word (practice) every time I post on it. So like I said, you simply do not believe what the written word says. If you did you would stop contradicting the word of God and let it mean what it says.
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit (practice) sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot (practice) sin, because he is born of God.
So yes both passages are literal, but if we put our own interpretaion on them then they become usless and confusing. Just believe what is writtren and if you do not understand how it can be don't contradict what it says!

 

Arbo,
thank you for the question. However asking me a question and then telling me you do not believe me about the question you asked means there is no reason for further discussion. I again point you to the feature on the board called search. Look at all my posts as I have covered this many times and then you can still not believe what I say if you so choose while knowing what I believe. God bless.