But still a sinner. It's clear as day through the whole new testament. Did you read the whole thing?
Discussion
It's fascinating to me how certain Christians try hard to hold onto the identity of "sinner", even though that's not what God says.
Since people become what they believe, some Christians, believing the lie that they are sinners, continue to struggle with sin.
When a person believes the truth, that they are no longer sinners but children of God and new creatures in Christ Jesus, then they realize the truth, that their previous sin identity was crucified with Christ when they accepted Jesus as their Lord and savior.
But in case you don't believe me, don't trust, verify the scriptures about the transition from the old identity as sinner to the new identity as a child of God, and the change in fundamental nature that takes place.
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1 Corinthians 6:9-11: Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? ... And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Ephesians 2:1-5: And you were dead in the trespasses and sins ... But God, being rich in mercy ... made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.
Romans 5:8-9: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
2 Corinthians 5:17-18: If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself.
2 Corinthians 5:21: For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Colossians 1:13-14: He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Titus 3:3-7: For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient ... But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us ... by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.
1 Peter 2:9-10: But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession ... Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
John 1:12-13: To all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born ... of God.
John 15:14-15: You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
Romans 3:23-24: For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Acts 26:18: To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.
Galatians 2:20: I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
Romans 6:6-7: We know that our old self was crucified with him ... so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin.
Ephesians 4:22-24: Put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life ... and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
1 John 1:7-9: If we walk in the light ... the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. ... If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.
Romans 8:1-2: There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Philippians 3:8-9: That I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own ... but that which comes through faith in Christ.
Hebrews 10:10: We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Acts 2:38: Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
2 Thessalonians 2:13: God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
1 Timothy 1:15-16: The saying is trustworthy ... that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. But I received mercy ... so that Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience.
Colossians 3:9-10: Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
Romans 6:4: We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Ephesians 2:19: So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.
1 Corinthians 1:30: And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
Philippians 3:20: But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 John 3:1-2: See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. ... Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him.
Ephesians 1:3-4: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.
2 Timothy 1:7: For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20: Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price.
Romans 6:11: So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:26: For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
1 John 5:1: Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God.
Revelation 1:5-6: And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, ... who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father.
Colossians 2:10: And you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
Ephesians 2:10: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Romans 8:14-16: For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
No, he didn’t. I’ve helped correct this heretical theology in my quoted note of his.
