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Do you believe that true believers have failed to confess/speak the same/acknowledge/agree with God's perspective about their sins and have no settled recognition and ongoing acknowledgment of their sins and need of cleansing and forgiveness?
Do you believe that only past sins are forgiven for the believer and all future sins are hanging in the balance and will only be forgiven if we confess each and every sin that we commit as we commit them (keep a specific inventory) and if we forget a sin we are toast? How does that fit with Acts 13:39 - and by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
True believers have an ongoing acknowledgement of their sins. I continue to live the Christian life that began for me several years ago. When I stumble and sin, I confess/acknowledge/agree with God's perspective about my sins, but I don't keep a specific inventory of every single sin that I have ever committed as a legalistic prescription to remain cleansed. That's not what John is talking about in 1 John 1:9.
Do you believe that only past sins are forgiven for the believer and all future sins are hanging in the balance and will only be forgiven if we confess each and every sin that we commit as we commit them (keep a specific inventory) and if we forget a sin we are toast? How does that fit with Acts 13:39 - and by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
True believers have an ongoing acknowledgement of their sins. I continue to live the Christian life that began for me several years ago. When I stumble and sin, I confess/acknowledge/agree with God's perspective about my sins, but I don't keep a specific inventory of every single sin that I have ever committed as a legalistic prescription to remain cleansed. That's not what John is talking about in 1 John 1:9.
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He never told the others to choose God. He told them to choose one of their false gods.
And it wasn't the gospel being presented, or an invitation to eternal life, as God already chose them, and some showed themselves to not be of Israel at all; Romans 9:6-7. Joshua understood this to be true.
Joshua served God because he was regenerate, it wasn't him "accepting Christ as Savior" but as a regenerate person he served God with his house.
And it wasn't the gospel being presented, or an invitation to eternal life, as God already chose them, and some showed themselves to not be of Israel at all; Romans 9:6-7. Joshua understood this to be true.
Joshua served God because he was regenerate, it wasn't him "accepting Christ as Savior" but as a regenerate person he served God with his house.
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But of course! It's OK! You can live however you want after you get saved. You didn't know that? 
Are you that desperate that you continually resort to slander?
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Jeremiah 23:24
Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
Romans 7:15
15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
John 1:7-9,
If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say 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” (1
1. We cannot throw away what God has given to us. A gift is a gift and once we accept it, it is ours for all eternity.
2. We can never go from the sight of God. He is everywhere. He knows from moment to moment where we are and what our needs are.
3. A saved soul/human is saved eternally by the gift of God. A saved/human being will continue to sin regardless because of their "human" nature part. However, we are given a path to follow if we sin to ask for forgiveness and for a "cleansing" which we will be given.
4. The Prodigal Son left, threw away his "lifestyle" and inheritance but his father never rejected him and took him back into the lifestyle with open arms.
Salvation is eternal. God says so. Living a clean life without sin controlling our human nature is possible through the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ, who is propitiation for our sins but no human being, no matter how faithful, how many works, deeds they perform will be sinless on this side of heaven.
Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
Romans 7:15
15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
John 1:7-9,
If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say 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” (1
1. We cannot throw away what God has given to us. A gift is a gift and once we accept it, it is ours for all eternity.
2. We can never go from the sight of God. He is everywhere. He knows from moment to moment where we are and what our needs are.
3. A saved soul/human is saved eternally by the gift of God. A saved/human being will continue to sin regardless because of their "human" nature part. However, we are given a path to follow if we sin to ask for forgiveness and for a "cleansing" which we will be given.
4. The Prodigal Son left, threw away his "lifestyle" and inheritance but his father never rejected him and took him back into the lifestyle with open arms.
Salvation is eternal. God says so. Living a clean life without sin controlling our human nature is possible through the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ, who is propitiation for our sins but no human being, no matter how faithful, how many works, deeds they perform will be sinless on this side of heaven.
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