Zeke wrote:I CAN KEEP SINNING RIGHT... I AM SAVED SO I CAN SIN CORRECT.
I DONT NEED COMMANDMENTS. OR COMMUNION, I JUST HAVE TO BELIEVE IN GOD. THATS ALL IT TAKES.
SIN, SIN, SIN
SIN ALL YOU WANT THAN CLAIM YOU HAVE FAITH AND FOLLOW GOD JUST ON THE PREMISE CAUSE YOU BELIEVE SO YOU ARE SAVED. THE SIN OF PRESUMPTION AND PRIDE
OSAS THE DOCTRINE OF DEMONS PREACHING TO OTHERS DO WHAT YOU LIKE YOU ARE STILL SAVED.
ITS NOT A ONE TIME DEAL.
BILLIONS OF CHRISTIANS SOMEHOW MISINTERPRET GODS WORD, TEACHERS, SCHOLARS, PASTORS ., PRIEST SOMEHOW WERE DECIEVED, AND YOUR SMALL GROUP COMES ALONG AND DISTORTS AND TWIST THE SCRIPTURES.
I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU,,, REALLY I DO.
Your pity is misplaced.
1 John 1:8-10
9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. NAS
John also states that if anyone
practices sin then he is not saved. An adulterer who will not repent and says he is saved is self-deceived because he/she is practicing a sin.
1 John 3:7-9
7 Little children, let no one deceive you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8 the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. NAS
Paul puts it this way:
Rom 3:21-30
21 But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; 25 whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; 26 for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. 27 Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. 28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30 since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one. NAS
You are teaching salvation by works; works to maintain a salvation that is a gift of God.
I was unaware that Lutheran's were so legalistic and dogmatic about God's gift of Jesus Christ that they taught works/salvation, which voids God's grace.
No one here is teaching that anyone can practice sin, however to state you never sin is simply not true and ignores the truth.