09/20/24 UNDERSTANDING, "SINLESS"

09/20/24 UNDERSTANDING, "SINLESS"

To be homeless does not necessarily mean that the person never had a home.
To be hopeless does not necessarily mean that the person never had hope.
To be toothless does not necessarily mean that the person never had a tooth.
To be jobless does not necessarily mean that the person never had a job.
To be sinless does not necessarily mean that the person has never sinned.

We have all sinned, and we are still capable of sinning, but that does not preclude God saving us from sin and from sinning (willfully disobeying the known law of God).
(The following are only some of the Biblical truths that quickly came to my mind when I wrote this post.)

I don't usually use the word, "sinless" because folks who believe in sinning religion erroneously weaponize it against the salvific work of God, Who saves believers from sin; Who cleanses believers from all sin; Who enables believers to resist all temptation to sin; Who leads believers not into temptation, but delivers them from the evil one; Who enables believers to keep His commandments, and to do that which is pleasing in His sight, and to walk in the light as He is in the light, and to obey His word, and to walk as He walked, and to do no sin.

Sinning religion denies the sacrificial work of Christ and the salvation of God; the power of God's word, and the blood of His Son, and the work of the Holy Spirit in the believer's life.

The alternative to being sinless is being sinful (or at least, to be sinning). Sinning religion condemns those who follow Christ faithfully; those who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit; those who are trusting Christ for clean hands and a pure heart.

Sinning Religion takes a few verses out of context to deny the clear message of hundreds (probably thousands) of passages in the Bible, as well as the clear, unified message of the entire Bible.

Therefore, I may seldom use the word, "sinless," but I do say that believers are called and enabled to walk in holiness all the days of our lives. After all, that is what salvation is all about.
1 John 2:1-8 KJV
1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.