Ok you go with the KJV
Heb 12:6 For whom the Lord LOVETH HE CHASTENETH, AND SCOURGETH every son whom he receiveth.
Heb 12:7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 1 Co 11:32 But when we are judged, we are CHASTENED of the LORD, that we should not BE CONDEMNED WITH THE WORLD. Brother I do not thank you know the reason God chastise.
What does this have to do with what we are discussing? I make it a policy never to get personal.
But you are questioning my honesty.
What is the point of engaging in a discussion then?
Yikes!
I don't think I could find anyone more self-controlled, methodical and honest on this board than TC.
If I were half as consistent and educated as TC when I was his age, I'd canonized as a saint by now.
Okay, we don't canonize saints, but you get my drift, I hope.
You are irght here. He has cast all of our sins (at salvation), past, present, and future, behind his back, cast into the depths of the deepest sea, never to be remembered again. They are ALL under the blood.
That, as you say, is the way you see it; but not the way the Bible teaches, nor the way that God sees it. It teaches two heresies.
1. It teaches a works salvation--that we end up working our way to heaven.
2. Most of all it teaches the heresy that the blood of Chriist was not sufficient in the atonement to cover all our sins. That's where the works comes. Because Jesus was utterly incapable of atoning for our sins we have to help him along by doing something. That really is akin to blasphemy in my books. I know you don't see it that way Bob, but that is the way it ends up to be. Either his blood is sufficient for all of our sins or it is not. Which way is it?
Whether a man is committing adultery, obese, cheating, lying, or whatever, at the time of his death; even if the sin goes unconfessed because of a heart attach or some other sudden circumstance, he will go straight to heaven. If you deny this, you also deny the sufficiency of the blood of Christ to cover all our sins. In the sight of God all sin is a transgression of the law, and therefore equal.
2. I'm of the firm belief that all of my sins past, present, and future have been covered by the once-for-all-time atonement of Christ.
3. The sins that I commit in the process of sanctification are all covered and are part of the process of sanctification.
4. Why I still commit them after having a new nature, I will never completely understand?
Why didn't God just take me straight to Heaven when I got saved, I will never know?
So why the chastisement and the advocate with God if we sin?
Not according to scripture.
1 Corth 6: 9: Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10: Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
I ask you the same thing as DHK; why the chastisement and advocate with God, if they are not to be remembered anymore and are as white as snow at the cross? If He chastises you, He remembers a sin. You call it a process of sanification, but the fact remains, He still remembers it.