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Romans 8:5-6. The point is it makes no difference how much we sin less as long as we set our mind on the things of the spirit. And the fruit of the spirit is love, peace joy, kindness, goodness, patience, and forbearance (Matthew etc.) But we must utilize the cross in which he covered once and for all (
John 1:29) after we've acknowledged ourselves as sinners. However, we must bear fruit in accordance with our repentance, but that never means to work the OT law. Faith works through love to follow him period (
Galatians 5:6).
So on
Hebrews 10:26-27 - it may often say something like that in the Bible, but if you look closer up top or below them, it'll usually begin to direct our faith by spurring each other on toward love and good deeds (
Hebrews 10:24-25). But our passion must not be driven towards sin or habitual sin; instead, it must be led by Christ and to trust what He did to overcome them all. So we must stir up our passion against the lust of world by desiring the things of God without worrying about falling too short of OT sins.
Be not stuck on those verses that confuse people into circumcision or uncircumcision (regarding law) but expand your reading around them, including others that explain its meaning.
Hope I could be of help.
I dont know why but I can see your response to me on my phone and not my computer. I cant reply to you on my phone because due to ad popups my keyboard disappears constantly and its infuriating. So I'm going to leave this here for now, and when I can get to my computer, I'll edit this comment with my reply to you.
Edit: Okay, let me ask you something. If you are married and you create a relationship with someone else at the same time, what does that make you? An adulterer. If you are "without worrying about falling too short of OT sins", then there is no point in stopping if your argument is "makes no difference how much we sin less" because I could read the bible and literally continually commit adultery. But what does the bible say?
"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters,
nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God." 1 Corinthians 6:9-10. If you continually are an adulterer, that keeps you in that status. While you are having sex with some other person, you are not suddenly NOT an adulterer just because you claim the name of Jesus and the cross. That's cognitive dissonance, the two views are apposing and cannot be true at the same time.
I do agree by reading around verses too to get the bigger idea which is why I love Romans, James, 1 John, 1 Peter, 1 Corinthians, and Hebrews because their concepts and what they argue back up each other. I also added Jesus's parables because they too add to the whole point. But you also cannot disregard certain verses that contradict your point. You're essentially arguing that sinning is fine, because Jesus atoned for it, and that contradicts Romans.
What is sin?
1 John 3:4:
"Sin is the transgression of the
law"
In essence, the point of the law is to show us how dirty we are. How much we've transgressed against Gods rules and now only how much we need his forgiveness for what we've done, but how much we need his help to stop breaking his rules. Jesus never came to abolish the law, but to
fulfill it. Which means it still applies and I mean the moral law (don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal) not the Jewish law which includes circumcision which was requirements for Jews only to set them apart.
Also, how may times did Jesus say repent? How many times did God call people back to repentance? What does it say in revelation that the wicked people don't do during the trib? Repent. What is repentance? Summed up in this verse:
2 Chronicles 7:14
- “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
You have to apply the entire book and teachings because your argument right now disregards so much scripture that is important. If it wasn't, it wouldn't have been taught.