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[color:"blue"]Walking perfectly before God does not imply that a man is without a sin nature (for even the saved still have one), but that he does not walk in iniquity.

Perhaps Jesus Christ needs to sit at your feet and learn from you? It would appear that He was sorely mistaken in His teaching concerning the nature of sin. Gee, if sin is to be externalized as you believe, then yes, it is certainly possible to live a perfect life. However, if one has a sin nature then that person is SINFUL by nature and thus guilty of being a sinner. We sin BECAUSE we are sinners, not vice versa. Personally, I will hear Christ and not you, sir! [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/igiveup.gif" alt="igiveup" title="igiveup[/img]
Matthew 7:17-18 (ASV) Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Matthew 15:19 (KJV) For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Mark 7:21-23 (ASV) For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness: all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man.

Matthew 5:21-22 (ASV) Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: but I say unto you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of the hell of fire.
2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (ASV) (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds), casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
[color:blue]Whatever mixture men study to add from the power of free will to the grace of God, is only a corruption of it; just as if anyone should dilute good wine with dirty or bitter water. - John Calvin, Institutes II:v.15


In His Grace,


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