We need to take another look at The Garden of Eden
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If you read Hebrews carefully, you will notice that the emphasis is on believing in Jesus Christ.
It is that belief in Jesus Christ which the author is proclaiming, that is the way to enter that rest.
I borrowed your quotation.
Heb 4:3
For we who have believed do enter that rest,...
They did not enter the rest, simply because they did not believe in Jesus Christ.
The Hebrews were falling away from trusting in Jesus.
oh you flipped from us tempting CHRIST with willful sin ...to something else ...wonder why
nice of you not to slander me
so refreshing!
probably you should go read your Bible a little bit more.
You skipped over the entire point of the post:
Heb 3:17-19
Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?
And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
The point is, can you sin as a Christian?
"and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God."
How are you practicing Righteousness?!?!
1 John 3:
7 Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.
8 Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.
9 No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.
10 By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
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Picking up our own cross is Obeying Him to be in His Righteousness on The Cross. Do you want Represented when CHRIST was Forsaken or not?
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Are we both reading the same thing? Cause It's saying those Born of GOD cannot keep on sinning ...so you think you are Reborn and your sins don't count now ...well, that's satan's lie ...wake up.
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Oblio
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"Makes a practice." If one is not in denial, they know what they are.
right, as long as you say you are causing separation from GOD ...it doesn't count ...::rolls eyes::
He says his sins are but little oopsies.
According to him, only the sins of others are committed willfully.
According to him, only the sins of others are offensive to God and proof one is not saved.
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Oblio
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If you think you're sinless, wait until a time comes when you go through an excruciatingly, difficult time. There may not be much left in the toothpaste tube, but if it's squeezed hard enough and long enough, "toothpaste" comes out. I wish it wasn't like that, I don't want it to be like that, but it is!
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Oblio
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After all these years...after all these fears...after all these tears...You're still with us.
As we cry out to You, and stretch out our arms, You embrace us...just as we are!
As we cry out to You, and stretch out our arms, You embrace us...just as we are!
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