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Repentance, baptism, confession, and forgiveness are not dead works..
I never said what you claim above.
If you read back through my posts you'll see that I said Christians repented of their dead works of self-righteousness.
If you do not confess your future sins that you commit, then the Lords precious blood can not cover them and cleanse you from that unrighteousness as 1 John shows..
Read 1John 1 from the beginning and note it's evangelical context.
Note that it declares eternal life so that others may have fellowship.
The false doctrine that is being taught is that at a one time repentance and mere belief is all that is needed for your past, present, and future sins to be forgiven/covered..
You seem to be suggesting that Christ's sacrifice for our sin was no more effective than the yearly sacrifice of bulls and goats?
But, Christ's sacrifice set us free from sin, John 8:36.
Thus Christians have "ceased from sin" (1Pet 4:1), we "cannot sin" (1John 3:9).
BTW, a reminder that this refers to our position in Christ. It's not saying we're physically perfect.
Paul and Peter both make it clear only your past and present sins at that time were forgiven and covered, confession for future sins still has to be made.
2 Peter 1:9
But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.
Romans 3:25
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Peter in his book even gives a list of things that should be in a believers life, and if they don't have them it is because they have been mislead by that doctrine that no matter what they do from here it is forgiven and covered. Their actions do not matter is what they think, this is a false doctrine to think this way.
2Pet 1:9 refers to those who once were Christians, cleansed by the blood, but they then turned back to the law for righteousness.
Whatever the law says, it says to those under it, Rom 3:19.
To turn back to the law is to make yourself a transgressor/sinner.
Gal 2:18
For if I build again the things which I destroyed (righteousness by works of the law), I MAKE MYSELF a transgressor/.Sinner
And Rom 3:25 confirms what I've shown in scripture that once we receive Christ we've CEASED from sin, 1Pet 4:1.