Bible Discussion Thread

First off let me say that I am a vessel, created in the image of God (man) 200%! I am in a transition in my life, in that I am sacrificing everything I have to be sold so I can follow Jesus as he asked of us in his ministry on earth. I know that God is "NO" author of confusion; but that of Love, Peace and Understanding and all that is GOOD! Ok this is my question: If we know the wages of sin is death, how can we trust 1 John 5-17: All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death? I can find no reference to justify this verse. Can someone please share with me the facts of this verse. The Holy Spirit in me will not let me believe this. Every scenario and thought leads me back to Sin = Death! Then comes another question: Man has been translating and editing the Bible for centuries.... So, if I use this reasoning and understanding when did Man add this verse? Because my God which is the creator of all things in Heaven and on earth That sent Jesus to die for our "SINS" that when we believe this we are saved unto eternal life.

Please enlighten me!

Your Brother in Christ Jesus,

Michael F Brickey Jr

The sin unto death is turning your back from Gods calls you by the Holy Spirit he gives ever one a chances to be saved

Michael let me give ya my take on this verse....Go to Romans 7 Read the whole chapter....Paul is telling us that we sin many times b/c its not us that does it but sin that dwells in our members....O wretched man that i am...With my mind i serve the law of GOD but with my FLESH THE LAW OF SIN....I find a law that when i wd do good evil is present with me....Paul says if we do something we do not CONSENT UNTO its not us that does it but sin that dwells in our members...But he goes on to say there is no condemnation to them in Christ Jesus....WHY IS THERE NO CONDEMNATION....Simply b/c when we are bornagain satan sows a tare in us with the wheat ....making us 2 persons....The wheat and the tares make us 2 persons....Then we are involved in a warfare....We answer to the 2 men in 1 bed...But we are just 1 person...But 1 will be taken and 1 will be left...Gather the tares in bundles and burn them Jesus says....But gather the wheat into my barn...kingdom

......And also the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death... Romans 8 : 2 kjv

......There is a sin not unto death b/c of the tares that satan puts in us makes us SIN trying to destroy us....Thats y he is saying there is no condemnation to them in Christ Jesus....The lord knows we do things we do not consent unto, we are involved in a war with satan...We walk in the flesh but we do not war in the flesh....We war in the spirit...

First of all, let me say thank you for taking the time to answer my question. I pray the love of our Lord and savior Christ Jesus continuously pour into your hearts and lives. I just got done reading Rom 7 and couldn't stop. Went through to chapter 9 and will go back into it more later. I understand everything said and know it as truth. The relationship I share with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit is on a very much deeper level than most as I have chosen to sacrifice my life in its entirety. My life is not my own it is Gods. I am 54 years old grew up in a home with a family that had no love and was extremely violent and shed with blood and misery. Admittedly my choices in life were my own. I was a vile individual from the time I joined the army until Feb this year. I had fought my whole life to not become that man my dad was. I failed in Feb 2022 when I raised my hand against my wife and went to Jail. I paid my penalties and did my time and have since repented. That was the turning point of my life that I chose to fight the good fight and stand for Jesus! When I saw that verse 1 John 5:17 from where I'm at now in my life it wasn't me in the flesh but The Holy Spirit that quickened me. I have been in seclusion isolated with God and my dog since that day and have dedicated my life to seeking God. I have chosen to remove everything that is worldly from my life. I really do not partake of sin. It utterly repulses my spirit and flesh, yes, my flesh as I have given control of my entire being to God for use through the Holy Spirit. I do fail daily but the Holy spirit convicts me instantly. I am not perfect but have come to the realization that 54 years has been too long and fraught with peril. I cannot control the flesh but God sure can when you ask him to. To me, I must live with the realization that Sin = Death because of how I choose to live now. For sure as I turn my back on God, I become a monster you do not want. Peace and Love in Jesus! Amen!!

Yes we as Christians we are God's instruments to do his and the Son of God's will here on earth. Through the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost

Dear Michael. If i understood well the verse that troubles you is "All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death"

Firstly any sin is unrighteousness, I think this is clear. Now any sin (virtually any) is forgiven by God once one repents for commiting it, it is like these sins were never commited. So sins that we have repented for, do not lead to (spiritual) death [hell]. There is one sin though that God never forgives. This is the blasphemy of the Holly Spirit. And this occurs ONLY (be careful, virtually ONLY) when one attributes to satan the works of the Holly Spirit, like, say, healing, casting out demons etc. This is the sin that leads to eternal death [hell]. To understand that well, please read carefully Matthew 12:22-32. GBU

Thank you for taking the time to respond to my question. I pray that wherever you are God's Light and Glory Shines upon you and your family until the 2nd coming of Christ Jesus. I understand that scripture very well thank you for sharing it. Please read 2 posts up in my other answer. I Must hold myself to a higher standard in God and not to create turmoil in my spirit. Does this make since? I look at what God did for us bringing us out of the Law of the OT. Because we could never attain salvation under the Law. So, I look at what God did for us bringing us unto himself. By the Cross and sending Jesus into this world to die for our sins that whosoever believes in him should not perish but gain eternal life! Ok now that being said it's that Grace, I choose not to take advantage of. When I look back on my life and see all my failures and everything I have repented of and been forgiven of, how can I not give my complete self as sacrifice as I push forward into his righteousness. I have truly laid down my life as a sacrifice to further my relationship towards sanctification in Christ Jesus. I give freely of all I have, to all that have needs because of the calling on my life. After all I have seen from my time spent in the Persian Gulf and the Balkans. To come home to suffer, not getting help because of Pride and trying to do it all on my own. God is the only one that could fix the monster I had become. So, for all my Gratitude I choose Peace, Love and Understanding and to move into a deeper relationship with God so he can maintain control of my soul because it is his to begin with. I have chosen to become a bondservant for Christ Jesus. My prayer when I pray is that if anything unclean and unrighteous be found in my mind or body it be removed; if any thought is impure, it be blotted out. If my tongue defile me or sews discord that God shut my mouth. I do my best to forsake all sin so that nothing be found in me at Jesus 2nd coming especially now! Peace be with you!

Gianni's I enjoyed your post . However , do u agree that we may sin without realising it ? We may sin and not know that we have and maybe even never know because we can't remember everything that we have ever said or done in our lives . What about those sins ? The ones we r never even aware of committing ? R those sins forgiven ?

Dear Grae, I think God doesn't hold you accountable for what you don't know but for what you know and choose to do the opposite hence disobey Him. When we are young in faith we often do not realize that some things we do, God does not actually like them. As we grow spiritually we understand more and more of God's expectations from us and so we correct things that previously may seemed to us to be OK

Paul in his letter to Corinthians writes: 1 Cor 3:1-3

"And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?"

So when we first come to Jesus we are still babies in faith. Paul calls this situation "carnal". Why? Because as babies do not know much and may do something wrong without realizing it, similarly we do the same. God loves us and knows all that and has patience and wants us to become mature in faith. How do we become mature? We need "milk" in the begining, that is the initial easy understood Word of God. So we are getting mature and start using solid food(meat), that is a deeper understanding of God's Will. And so we are progressing (or should do) towards what Paul calls "perfection" See Phillpians 3:12-14. Do we actually reach a stage that we become so? My belief in no we don't, we still have a sinful nature to fight against it, still learning things about God, about our heart...but we walk along this good path.

Paul in 1 Cor 4:4 writes "For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord."

That means that even Paul was not sure of what his heart really had inside, so God who knows our heart can actually judge right.

Conclusion? Do what you know, repent for what you know you did wrong and let God lead you and your life.

GBU

Very clear answer , thankyou I appreciate your posts very much .