Guess I'm having a hard time grasping what you are trying to tell me.
If I am in Christ, and the Holy Spirit is in me, and both are God, and God hates sin, how can sin any longer be the pattern of my life? If I am saved, I will deny self and live to please my Savior. I believe that any Christian who has gone through the narrow gate and is on the narrow path will agree.
What am I missing? Can you be saved and not deny self?
Terry
Ok -- I Cor 3:1-3 . The carnal, fleshly babe in Christ ------- saved or unsaved. Possessed of the Spirit or not. Still compromised? Still saved (I ask again). See my point? The whole notion of "spiritual growth" is an afront to the false teaching of the immediacy of spiritual maturity. We believe, we receive the Spirit, and victory over sin becomes a simply and complete reality. Wonderful mythology -- terrible theology because it leaves off growth, the need from continual confession and the continual flow of the blood of the Lamb.
John
