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How can you be and not do?
Having said that Babylon only values limited things
Thus what you do might be un-valued by the culture
Still you are what you do.
God hates sin but loves sinners. This is untrue. Why does God call people liars, adulterers, murderers if He does not see them by what they do? The language of scripture makes no difference between what a man does and who he is.
Dead to Sin, Alive to God
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
” (Romans 6:1–4, NKJV)
The Bible does not call Christians sinners. The Bible says we are “dead to sin” and the fruit of salvation is cessation of sin.
17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
” (James 2:17–18, NKJV)
Don’t panic, this is a process, but don’t call yourself a “sinner” when the Bible does not.
Sin and the Child of God
4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
” (1 John 3:4–9, NKJV)
