OOps, it's in the Faith/works, how much faith and how much works thread
start at post 734 and read forward.
Ok I have read the post and following posts.
Here is one I read
As far as a Christian sinning all they want and continuing to be saved...
You, I, and every other believer already do this. So I really don't see what the issue here is. We sin every day either by thought, word, or deed. We sin even more than we are aware, as God's requires absolute perfection to be saved. Salvation is a gift via grace - God's unmerited favor. To add a single requirement to it negates it as such. It turns salvation into a merit based system. How many works are needed? How many sins will cause one to lose it? Nobody ever has the specifics.
Here is how I interpreted it.
We know Budman has a beef about sin.
His beef is that some come accross as teaching sinless perfection yet sin themselves.
Further that sins of omission or inadvertent sins do not count.
Bud please correct me if I'm wrong.
So I have interpreted his above response along these lines.
When we sin we do so because we want to. The reality is that if did not want to then we would not sin. Therefore sinning because we want to.
Even though we do sin (because we want to) we are still saved by faith because even one sin keeps us out of heaven if we did not have faith in Jesus.
If my assumption is correct then he does not fall foul of what Paul has addressed.
He has not said we can use grace as a license to sin.
Bud please correct me if I am wrong.
You obviously interpreted it differently from me.
I would be interested to know why.