Simply_Nikki
Puritan Board Junior
I have come to a point where I need some clarity on what it really means to practice sin and what it really means to be sanctified. So here are my questions.
1. What does it mean to practice sin? If we do something twice? three times? every month? every week? every day? Is that practicing sin?
2. If indeed when we do a sin (and I don't mean always the same sin) often and this constitutes practicing sin, does this mean we should question our salvation, or the salvation of others?
I'm thinking of all the passages of scripture that tells us the implications of practicing sin, such as Jesus saying "depart from me your worker of lawlessness" in Matthew 7, or John telling us that "whoever practices sin practices lawlessnes" and that whoever practices sin is not or does not abide in God in 1 John 3, or Paul telling us we are not to continue in sin that grace may abound in Romans 6, the list goes on.
3. I've heard the term "progressive sanctification", what does this phrase really mean? Does it mean that over time we will be less and less sinful as christians? If we don't, can we be really sure that we are saved?
These are very powerful questions for me, not only for me, but others I know. I guess this is a classic Law and Grace question.
I was going to draw out my thought process since on one hand i know the answers to these questions.. but on the other hand there is an interesting and crucial theological question that I get myself stuck in. However, I won't do that now, I just want to hear other's responses. Any thoughts?
1. What does it mean to practice sin? If we do something twice? three times? every month? every week? every day? Is that practicing sin?
2. If indeed when we do a sin (and I don't mean always the same sin) often and this constitutes practicing sin, does this mean we should question our salvation, or the salvation of others?
I'm thinking of all the passages of scripture that tells us the implications of practicing sin, such as Jesus saying "depart from me your worker of lawlessness" in Matthew 7, or John telling us that "whoever practices sin practices lawlessnes" and that whoever practices sin is not or does not abide in God in 1 John 3, or Paul telling us we are not to continue in sin that grace may abound in Romans 6, the list goes on.
3. I've heard the term "progressive sanctification", what does this phrase really mean? Does it mean that over time we will be less and less sinful as christians? If we don't, can we be really sure that we are saved?
These are very powerful questions for me, not only for me, but others I know. I guess this is a classic Law and Grace question.
I was going to draw out my thought process since on one hand i know the answers to these questions.. but on the other hand there is an interesting and crucial theological question that I get myself stuck in. However, I won't do that now, I just want to hear other's responses. Any thoughts?
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