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1 John 3:6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

The bible seems to directly contradict itself does it not? Here we find the apostle John making a profound statement, which is: If we are in Christ we cannot sin! How can that be when the bible tells us: “not one is righteous no not one!” Complicating the subject further the apostle John in the same book said if we state we have no sin we are a liar?

1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Here is where the truth is separated from the flesh, if a person cannot get the basic teaching of scriptures how can they state they are a teacher of God's word? These verses are not at all complicated, not unless a person is in a fleshly legal mind that cannot know God, now let us explain?

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

1Cor.5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5:5 are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

First, when a person approach God from religion, and/or flesh trying to dissect God's word from a legal mind, like an attorney one can never separate the flesh from the Spirit. So what is a legal approach to the bible? First, it is to assume evil of God, thinking if we don't put this verse into a legal contract we will look foolish, and we will find a judgment in it. However, if we can package it, that is, label it with some human reasoning so its more palatable we can justify our reasoning, and we are not judged by God.

1 John 4:9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

In others words, truth and Spirit is not the concern at all, it is justification of our human condition by the wisdom of this world. The truth is simple, the redemption of mankind from sin, from our sins causing death! No person born from the first man Adam is sinless by his, or hers own efforts, meaning? By human wisdom, and the efforts that come from a person born into sin, those works are dead works to God. Death according to God, that is, his word the bible is sin, if we are a sinner, which we all are, we are dead to God. We have to be made right by God, and what ever provision he gives us so we can be right, and/or righteous, meaning? Without sin! Hence, alive to God and his association, by Spirit.

Romans 6:11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

Never overlook this most important truth of your bible, if we sin, we cannot be apart of God, and his plans for a new heavens and new earth. Now we have found the so called dichotomy for the fleshly mind which is? If I speak truth that nothing good dwells in my sinful flesh no matter how much I want it to obey perfection, that is, without sin, obeying God's laws it cannot!

Romans 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

Romans 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.

Rom.8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Now the road splits for all of us at this point, do we live a lie by false religion, that is, justifying our sins through legal wranglings of God's word the bible so we can be better than that person or their religion, or do we accept the truth, in Spirit? The truth is a very narrow road few find, because it says, we have no way out of sin or death, without humbly acknowledging our condition of sin. False religion looks to a straw man argument found in deep bible teaching to cloud the issue of our fallen condition by creating battles over words thinking it is the works of God, instead of dead works from the fleshly mind, through intellectual debates.
2 Timothy 2:14 Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

Ephesians 5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

The only way out of our fallen flesh is for someone who was without sin to purchase us, by their own sinless, life. In other words, for someone to give up their life so we might live having our sin once for all time removed by God. Now in that life, which we know to be Christ, we found to be without sin, outside of that life, that is, in our fallen flesh we cannot stop sinning. However, remembering once in false religion this concept is meaningless because a person earns righteousness by their works upon earth towards God.

Revelation 3:2 Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.

Titus 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit.

This is why only those accepting the undeserved kindness of God gift of love to mankind are found sinless. They flatly reject that a person can be righteous by any work they have done, or will do. They understand righteousness of Christ was given them while they were yet a sinner, that is, not in Christ. What put them in Christ was Christ works/merit, not their own. Once in Christ it is the works of his own merit mind that are done through his body, not ours, its his will in the body, and found in its members which is the works of God done perfectly without sin because of his righteousness and not our own.

James 1:4 Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Colossians 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

The legal mind rejects the unmerited kindness of God for self-works in proving they have merit in their flesh while upon earth. While, at the same time forgetting they have nothing good dwelling in their flesh. The flesh is of no value to God, it is judge dead by its sins, the hope of God is found in the life of Christ, and no where else.

2 Peter 1:9 For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

1 John 4:19 We love Him, because he first loved us.

Romans 5:8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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