Why would Paul tell Christians not to do sins they are incapable of doing?

You posted a scripture right out of the Bible and said, tell me why anyone should listen to you. That says volumes. 1John 5:16

1Jo 5:16If any man see his brother sin a sin [which is] not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. (Unbelieveable)

 

You right Bob. I posted the Scripture. But you haven't. You haven't explained the Scripture. You haven't defined the terms therein. You haven't done so for the last how many weeks? What's the problem?

 

:laugh: :laugh:

Ed

 

Yes I have DHK, you are so hard to teach. There are people like that. My wife taught school for over 30 years and there were some kids they just moved through the system for they could not learn.

And I did post the scripture and dare say that you copied and pasted it from my post.

Ed, are you going to answer post #138?????

 

:thumbsup:

Ed

 

Sorry, your disagreement is not with me, here, but with Scripture, for I merely quoted it about 'stealing'.

Ed

 

Like I just said, I was merely quoting Scripture. "Spinning" is not one of my better talents.

Ed

 

Seems to be the same 'group' of the church of the Ephesians, and he uses "you" fairly frequently, here!

Ed

 

As I have shown from Scripture that sins I committed before Salvation were removed from me to a distance I cannot travel to commit again.

He removed stealing, I no longer steal. He removed cursing, I no longer curse, all sins I was guilty of, He revealed to me, I confessed and He removed.

To this day, if His Spirit reveals something that is sin in my life, I confess and He removes that sin.

But sins this side of Salvation are not the same sins the other side of Salvation.

 

Well, I am sure if you looked Paul said they did those things in the past.

 

Nice to say, I guess, but the Scripture I quoted still does not seem to say the same, as far as I can tell.

Ed

 

No, in my life, I have been accused of both being one of a group of ones that were "a dumb farmer" and, also been accused of being "a dumb cab driver". I just took it at face value, and find it is a good line to use, since I have been called both.

Ed

 

Then ya'd better not tell. :laugh:

 

Not by me.

 

What part of the word "here" was so confusing in my sentence? The verse about 'advocacy' does not differentiate as you implied. The statement I here made is NOT false, as is exactly according to Scripture.

Hear??

AND in fact, I mentioned in the post about "the sin unto death". I merely did not "cut and paste" to move it to where it was not found.

Ed

 

1 John 5:16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

There is the verse Bob.
I fully realize that you have posted it before. I have also copied and pasted it before. However, I am still waiting for your explanation of what this "sin unto death" is, and your list of what these sins are. Or, shall I just take the RCC definition of "mortal sin" which you seem to adhere to?

 

I think I answered post #138 when I finally got to it.

Ed

 

Nite! Nite!

Ed

 

I know its hard for you Ed, but if Christians don't commit "sin unto death" then that only leaves "sin that is not unto death". Hope that helps.
But I keep forgetting that you are among those who believe that Christians can commit any sin known to mankind, of which I believe to be the doctrine of darkness and blindness, which will lead men to destruction. There are ways of man "that seemeth right," but the end of is death. Only thing is your ways don't even "seemeth" right.

You infer that good is evil, such as me saying Christians do not sin unto death. Also, you infer that evil is good, such as Christians can commit any sin known to mankind. IMO

Instead of trying to play language and spelling cop, you need to study what Christians really are, and that is "Christ Like". I hope you don't believe Christ too can commit all those sins, for He is within a Christian, and they would have to take Him along with them on these sinful journeys you speak of.

hear here,

 

Apparently you only 'believe Christ can commit 'some' of those sins, for He is within a Christian, and they have to take him along when they commit the sins' you don't speak of, but imply that you, in fact, commit - you know, the basically insignificant sins, and the ones that are not so heinous to God, like some others are.

Ok, what is the differentiation? I have not found that difference in Scripture, but apparently you (Bother Bob) have. You know, like deciding that

as long as the sin was really not of the "unto death" variety. Seems to me one has to be "adding to" the Scripture in I John 2:1 to get that out of the specific verse, for the verse simply does not say what you imply.

But I guess, however, adding to God's word is not a "sin unto death", since I see so many on the BB that have no problem doing so, and still are around to do it in the next post, and I've 'long since' run out of fingers and toes on which to count them, only posessing a total of twenty!

BTW, the appellation of "Language Cop" was also given me by a Christian brother, and I happily accepted it, as well, as the "dumb farmer" and "dumb cab-driver". Seems it (Language Cop) too, had something to do with "adding (a "private interpretation") to Scripture" at the time, and I "called the hand" over it, if I recall correctly. But it was and is not a self-imposed moniker, either.

Ed