We are either legalistic Christians or lawless sinners.
Okay. If you can be sinless, good for you.
Christ died on the cross for everybody except Ringman.
Ringman saved himself.
Your reaction is typical of those who don't love the Lord enough to serve Him. So you don't believe 1 John?
First off, you just judged me. Sin #1.
Secondly, I believe the Apostle Paul when he said in Romans 7-21:25.
21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature[a] a slave to the law of sin.
Sorry about you thinking I sinned by I judged you. Jesus says, "Judge with righteous judgement." "Don't give what is holy to dogs." "Why do you not on your own initiative judge what is right." "Do you not judge those who are within the church?"
So it appears you judged me incorrectly. Sin #unknown. Christians have an obligation to judge.
Almost every time obedience comes up someone comes up with all manner of excuses not to obey from humble loving obedience. We obey because we are saved by God's Grace. John says, "If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another."
Somehow wanting to obey the New Testament is the same as saying I am sinless? Where do you find that in the Bible?
Last edited by Ringman; 09/24/22.
"Only Christ is the fullness of God's revelation." Everyday Hunter
