The part of salvation forgot to talk
about freedom from sin... interesting no one wants to talk about sin and it's punishment!
But, the answer depends on whether you believe we
need freedom from sin or we need freedom to embrace sin.
A ho - mo - se - xual can find salvation in prayer.A ho - mo - se - xual can
find freedom from its sin and deviation by praying.
In one fresco, Adam and Eve confront the serpent, reminding the viewer of humanity's pristine origins and the necessity
for freedom from sin; in another, Christ the shepherd stands in paradise, symbolising the liberation from death through divine union.
I know that you don't believe Paul's Gospel of
freedom from sin by believing in a death and resurrection story.
Antinomianism is heresy that tells Christians it's OK to forget about God's law and concentrate solely on agape love... a course which is a justification for degeneration and immoral licence, rather than promoting the true Christian liberty (
i.e. freedom from sin to serve God and our fellows).
«Freedom of choice», says Kirill, «should be used for
attaining freedom from sin... The Church openly calls sin by its name and devotes its efforts to saving man» (pp 84, 11).
While Jesus did
proclaim freedom from sin, He did not do so on the basis of the sacrificial system (or even His own sacrifice), but simply on the basis of God's limitless love, mercy, grace, and forgiveness.
This sort of teaching about love is what grants
people freedom from sin, freedom from religion, and freedom from fear.
When we live like Jesus, when we take his teachings seriously and apply them to life, we don't have to wait until we die to
experience freedom from sin.
Whereas the gospel of the Bible reveals a grace from God that offers people a limited time to repent and a promise
of freedom from sin.
As Augustine noted in his commentary on the Gospel of John,
freedom from sin by the keeping of the commandments is only the beginning of freedom.
But the freedoms mentioned in the Bible's New Testament are
freedoms from sin and the Mosaic Law, not freedom to sin.
The fact that they make such a big deal out of being AGAINST sexuality in any but the most tightly Churchian - state controlled circumstances, i.e., marriage, PROVES their attachment to the issue, not their «
freedom from sin.»
Freedom from sin, Love, peace beyond all understanding, hope.
This separation was increased by the claim they made of higher enlightenment, closer mystic fellowship with God, dearer knowledge of truth, and
freedom from sin.
The breach with the Docetic thinkers, with their claims of
freedom from sin, is complete.
Is your goal in life to exercise your freedoms or to call others to walk in
the freedom from sins found in Christ?
So
the freedom from sin comes as a result of the release of the debt of sin.
In Christ, we've been called to the truest freedom of all:
freedom from sin.
The subject of this discourse is freedom,
freedom from sin (8:34) and death (8:51).
Resurrection power is
freedom from sin.
Alan, Well... yes,
the freedom from sin does primarily come from grace... without the grace of God in our lives, we would not be able to confess or repent or turn from sin toward obedience.
Not freedom to sin but
freedom from sin.
Genuine Christianity (actual righteousness and
freedom from sin) can only be made evident amongst us when this sure and true «word of life» thrives at the very core of our message and service — no other «gospel» is safe.
But I am quite sure that we will not understand this aright unless we insist that forgiveness is
freedom from sin, not only from past guilt, but also from sinful behavior in the future.
Faith in him, and the cleansing power of his blood, leads to spiritual birth and
freedom from the sin that binds us and separates us from God.
I don't pretend to understand these passages fully, and perhaps Peter and Paul are speaking figuratively, but they are saying that our baptism is important to us — for our salvation,
freedom from sin and a new life — all things we all need.
Being washed with water is not what accomplishes this, but rather, it is being fully identified with the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus through the work of the Spirit that gives
us this freedom from sin and the law.
But for biblical religion, freedom meant above
all freedom from sin, freedom to do the right, and was almost equivalent to virtue.