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I'm reading comments that conclude once God has "saved" us, which actually takes effect in our life when we become Born Again by God's action ALONE, we can actually reach a state of Sinless Perfection in this life. And if we read passages like 1 John 3 and isolate them from the rest of the Bible we might arrive at that understanding. But we MUST compare scripture with scripture and develop our understanding regarding the Nature of Salvation based upon anything and everything that Bible teaches regarding that critically important doctrine.
When we do this we will come to this understanding, I believe:
Mankind, unlike any other life form that God has created, consists of a 1) a BODY(flesh and bone and blood) that we can see and touch and feel that will ultimately die, be buried, and return to the dust (unless we are living when Christ returns). And this is true for every Human, saved and unsaved; and 2) a SOUL (the spirit essence, or mind, as the Bible speaks of our Soul) that we cannot see or touch or feel, but is every bit as real a part of us as our body. So our BODY and SOUL combine to create who we are and determine our complete personality.
The Bible is quite clear that before God applies His Salvation to our life we are Spiritually Dead, i.e. a Spiritual Corpse if you will, and in complete rebellion against God both in BODY and SOUL.
When God "saves" us we become Born Again in our SOUL existence and God has performed the MIRICLE of giving us a New Resurrected SOUL which CANNOT sin. But nothing has happened to our BODY and won't until the Last Day during the Resurrection / Rapture of every True Believer when God gives us our Spiritual BODY and True Believers will become a complete SINLESS personality ( 1 Cor 15)
Before that occurs we still lust after sin in our BODY and will never obey God perfectly and can even fall into grievous sin like David did. This despite our Resurrected Soul and our ERNEST ONGOING DESIRE to do the will of God.
I'm reading comments that conclude once God has "saved" us, which actually takes effect in our life when we become Born Again by God's action ALONE, we can actually reach a state of Sinless Perfection in this life. And if we read passages like 1 John 3 and isolate them from the rest of the Bible we might arrive at that understanding. But we MUST compare scripture with scripture and develop our understanding regarding the Nature of Salvation based upon anything and everything that Bible teaches regarding that critically important doctrine.
When we do this we will come to this understanding, I believe:
Mankind, unlike any other life form that God has created, consists of a 1) a BODY(flesh and bone and blood) that we can see and touch and feel that will ultimately die, be buried, and return to the dust (unless we are living when Christ returns). And this is true for every Human, saved and unsaved; and 2) a SOUL (the spirit essence, or mind, as the Bible speaks of our Soul) that we cannot see or touch or feel, but is every bit as real a part of us as our body. So our BODY and SOUL combine to create who we are and determine our complete personality.
The Bible is quite clear that before God applies His Salvation to our life we are Spiritually Dead, i.e. a Spiritual Corpse if you will, and in complete rebellion against God both in BODY and SOUL.
When God "saves" us we become Born Again in our SOUL existence and God has performed the MIRICLE of giving us a New Resurrected SOUL which CANNOT sin. But nothing has happened to our BODY and won't until the Last Day during the Resurrection / Rapture of every True Believer when God gives us our Spiritual BODY and True Believers will become a complete SINLESS personality ( 1 Cor 15)
Before that occurs we still lust after sin in our BODY and will never obey God perfectly and can even fall into grievous sin like David did. This despite our Resurrected Soul and our ERNEST ONGOING DESIRE to do the will of God.
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