Christians Are Not Sinners
This is a true statement ------
Strong's Concordance
chatta: sinful, sinners
exposed to condemnation, reckoned as offenders --one accounted guilty --
Once your saved your a Saint =====no longer reckoned as offender -----no longer exposed to condemnation -----
Saved people should never ---ever call themselves a Sinner -----you are what you say you are ----
Then why does the New Testament continue to tell Christians to not sin if they aren't sinners anyway?
A Saint should never see their old selves reflected when they look in a Mirror ------they should see the reflection of Christ Jesus ----
Not the reflection of Jesus Christ immediately, but incrementally, degree by degree, we are transformed into that image and it probably won't happen in this lifetime. This is progressive sanctification.
1 Corinthians 2:18
18And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being
transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
who do you see ----your old corrupted sinner self ---or your new uncorrupted Saint self -----how you see yourself is how you will act -----
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Those who are born again don't have a sinful nature, it repulses us. If we do sin we are cut through with guilt, shame, and will hit the deck with our knees and confess them to God. However, we live with our corrupted bodies, but it is no longer our new spiritual nature that wants to sin. Paul put it like this:
Romans 7:13-25
13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.
16And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.
17In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
19For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.
20And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
23But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.
24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
25Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
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