Quote (Creations @ Mar 15 2011 05:31pm)
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[B]its more than trying to stop sinning. James is very clear about sin, and the consequences of sin as well as Paul was when we wrote Romans. 2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" What Paul is saying here is that when you accept Christ into your life, there is an inner change, and a visible change in the person. Essentially, we are a new person. Things of the past should fade away, and Christ should be the new center of our lives, thus, we base everything we do around Christ. The thing is, if we as believers continue to fall into the same sin over and over, and there is no real conviction for what we continue to do, we need to examine ourselves, and examine our salvation, because it may not even be there. Obviously, we were born into sin, we take in sin daily, even after repentance, we are just so consumed by sin that there is no running from it. What i am saying though, is that if we continue to sin and there is no conviction, salvation was never there.nicely stated.
I also want to say that i dissagree with you kiss, the flesh is sin. A baby that is born into this world is born into sin. The baby does not have any knowledge of what is sin or not sin. That is why babies and children would automatically go to heaven if something were to happen to them. I believe there is something of the bible that talks about i just dont kno where.