Category: Sin

This article is found in the book: “Difficult Texts of the New Testament Explained” edited by Wendell Winkler pages 380-382. In this passage asserting that one begotten of God is incapable of a single act of sin? If it is, then it is in direct conflict with other plain passages in this very epistle. (Note 1 John 1:1-10). One basic rule of hermeneutics is that one can never correctly interpret one passage of scripture in such a way as to cause it to contradict another passage of scripture. To interpret 1 John 3:9 to mean...

Peter said, “For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning” (2 Peter 2:20). Over the last several years we in America have been great concerned about pollution. We are concerned about the pollution that is in the air. We are concerned about the pollution in the water. We are concerned about the pollution upon our land. We ought to be concerned about these things for if...

We have seen the price of gasoline go way up. It got so bad that some had to pay close to a hundred dollars to fill up their automobile. Who would have ever thought of that? Some of us can remember when five dollars would pretty much fill up the car. Those times seem to be lost forever! Sin has an awful cost. When Paul by inspirations said, “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness,...Continue reading

Can a person be a little sinner? Can a Christian sin just a little and be acceptable in the eyes of God? Can a person commit a little murder and be ok in the sight of God? I wonder if a man could commit a little adultery and he tell his wife that he did such a thing and would he think that every thing would be ok with his wife? Would this same act be ok with God? (That is the one with whom it really matters anyway.) There are any number of sins...Continue reading