Zaac
Help me here Iconoclast. Because Scripture also says 10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. James 2:10
Doesn't that make us all guilty of the same thing?
Zaac...no...James is addressing the idea of a person who thinks they can keep the law to be saved.Only Jesus could keep the law perfectly,and it is His active obedience that is accounted to us who trust him.
Okay. Then in the sanctification process, does that not leave room for strongholds?
No it does not.....it does leave room for sin however. In other words we are still in a body of flesh with the motions of sin[sinful impulses} to deal with.
We are commanded to mortify,ie, put to death or, deprive of power these sinful impulses....
3 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
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Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
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In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
9 Lie not one to another,
seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
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And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Yes you are a new creation. But that new creation continues to sin.
The new creation does not continue
to practice sin.[habitually]
We are still able to sin and we do, we are not brought under it's reigning power however.....we are free to serve God, not sin.
I'd say the average Christian lied before he was saved and has lied since being saved
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I see no reason for this to be in a christians life???lying??/
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
25 Wherefore
putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Does that make such a sinner any less covered in the righteousness of Christ?
A dis obedient christian will be chastised by God so he is not judged with the world;
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
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If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
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But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit,
that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous:
nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.