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Jesus died for ALL of my sins, and His blood cover even times of unbelief, or not trustin in God as I should, so what sin getsme lost again?

 

A dozen or more? Okay, I'll bite. Show us the donuts.

 

They are likely not believers at all. Satan is just a cheap imitator. Blind men describing colors based upon what the hear from people with sight does not make their eyes see. It just means they can talk like they see while still being blind. You can act like you have sight all through your life, but the creator knows who has been given sight and who has always been blind.
God gives sight and he doesn't remove the sight along the way.

 

No I do not believe that. Why? Because those who are living in habitual sin cannot be believers. Oh, they may have gone forward at some outreach or other, or signed a card, or recited a sinner's prayer, but they have not seen themselves as guilty sinners under the righteous condemnation of God, turned away from their sin and trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation. That is, they believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the One spoken of in the O.T., their Prophet, Priest and King, the LORD their righteousness (Jeremiah 23:6) and the One to whom they give their obedience. Nothing less corresponds to Biblical saving faith.

Such a faith is supernatural; it comes only from a new birth. 'No one can say [and mean] Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:3). Such a person will be kept by God. 'We know that whoever is born of God does not [habitually] sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him' (1 John 5:18).

 

Really??

He does indeed! But, 'They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that it might be made manifest that none of them were of us' (1 John 2:19). If a 'believer' walks away or draws back from the faith, he proves himself not to be a true believer.

They are facts. It's just that you are interpreting them wrongly. God's elect will persevere, but it is also necessary that they do persevere. If they don't, they're not God's elect QED.

It's in the Bible, so it's a yes. Wonderful text, so long as you read it in conjunction with the following verse.

 

I very much doubt that the Lord would have you preach to anyone.
Since you don't interact either with what I write or the Scriptures I post, but just keep trotting out your own foolishness, there isn't much point in debating. Proverbs 27:22 applies.

 

I must have missed that verse! ...I haven't read all of 2nd Opinions..

How does a believer go about loosing what Christ has fully paid?
How can I invalidate what God has called righteous?
How do I break what God has sealed?

"Trying hard" doesn't make me a better Christian, it makes me self-righteous.

Think about the statement: "A Christian in habitual sin loses their salvation"

There is an exact point when a person goes from "having" to "losing".

.. exactly when did the person lose it?

...what a blessing for the person who did one sin less and kept their salvation.​

NO! The entrance exam is Faith! ...pure and simple...

The Scriptures encourage those of the faith to remain steadfast, to follow after God's ways and not fall into the patterns of our past life.

Christians who sin live an unsettled life. ...they the more we sin the more unsettled we become.

... the kicker is, we all sin!
... Dare I say it, we all sin habitually (...some more dramatically than others).​

The Scriptures challenge each of us to grow up, to change, to mature, to not be content, not to rest in dis-fellowship with God.

God wants his children to commune with him, to walk in the light.
He pushes us all to experience him more fully ...but he never rejects us.​

Rob

 

Can a christian reach a sinless perfection state?

 

The correct answr is NONE but Jesus!

 

One means of discerning a person's reconciliation with Christ is whether they love their sins more than they love their Savior.

I've heard people say that all a person needs to do is say the sinners prayer and they are saved...as if the prayer were a magic incantation. Such teaching is false.

When the waves of God's ordained trials hit your life, do you trust God even more, or do you curse God and walk away?

The first shows that God has gripped you and saved you. The latter reveals that your foundation is found in your weak "self."

I trust God with every human. God will never lose one of his children.

 

We're you on the island of Crete...

 

Pot meet kettle.

 

Only 10? Last time you said over a dozen. Are you eating the donuts again?