I'm seeing a paradox being presented here.
Because I do stupid things.
The spirit is not me.
I'm a christian.
Do many call others christians, but they are not?
Brilliant Idiot to you.
No. You're just an idiot. You have absolutely no ability to comprehend what I have said, and that is because you are an idiot, and nowhere near brilliant.
How am I supposed to know when you don't even know what you said?:hammer:
One might also say, according to flesh all we do is miss the mark. If one walks in the flesh, one is in unbelief, and unbelief is the unpardonable sin. So to walk in the flesh is to walk in constant sin, 24/7.
Not necessarily so. If we are born of the spirit then there is not a power on earth that can unbirth us. we cannot become unborn of the spirit but we shall be saved so as by fire. The flesh will be destroyed but the spirit has eternal life. Our Spirit does not sin though our bodies born of man can. It is not unusual for the flesh to mimick the spirit to gain a strong hold so as not be ignored. This is the type of Christian Paul was dealing with in 1 Corinthians. It was not that the Corinthians were unsaved but they were allowing the flesh to dictate the rightness of there individual belief. It was a touche - feely kind of Christianity. A religion where emotion was used to dictate there behavior. Some of it quit extreme. We are not righteous because of what we do but because of who we have been made to be. We should never give others the impression that our flesh is now sinless and that the flesh never effects what we do. Let him who standeth take heed lest he fall. We can still do some pretty stupid things but it is not us who does it but sin that dwells in us. Our flesh is not our best friend.
I still haven't figured out, biblically speaking, how a dead body can sin. My impression from the scriptures is that our flesh is dead to the law.
Paul sates that the Corinthians he addressed were not spiritual, but carnal. So, they weren't saved yet. They were working out their salvation with fear and trembling; they hadn't finished working it out yet.
While that may be true...
That is why I emphasize that my flesh is dead because of sin, and that perfection is not of the flesh. Someone who is carnal will have the wrong impression no matter what you tell them.
That is because it is Christ that stands, not us. He is standing and cannot fall. Therefore, if we are in Him, we cannot fall, cannot stumble...
Amen!
When i say the body can sin I am not talking about being opposed to god. I mean that it just misses the mark. All sin is covered by the blood of Christ. No one who is unsaved is subject to sin. They are just dead to God and it is this death that must be exchanged for life. The only life recognized by God is His life that he gives and that is through Jesus His Son.
You cannot work out what you do not have.Any one who does not know God has anything to work out. They are dead and dead people cannot work.
It is absolutely true and it does mean something. Only a righteous person can commit a righteous act. You honestly expect the unrighteous to do righteously. They don't even know God. What we do does not make something righteous but it is who we are that produces the righteous acts.
Yes I know but people judge themselves by what they do and not by who they are. That is because most view themselves as a flesh and blood person and not a spiritual person. That is what carnality is. Most do have a problem with there physical person and don't view themselves as victorious.
We stand and cannot fall because Christ is able to keep that which is committed to Him.
