Based on the first sentence you wrote: "He sees the born-again believer as sinless, holy, righteous; and the perspective of man in time, that is, I am a sinner and will sin to the day I die," it is quite evident that my Jesus is more powerful than your false Jesus. The true Jesus actually takes away the desire to sin. Your mindset is still in the Old Covenant where sacrifices merely covered our sins, but didn't free us to walk in actual righteousness 1 John 3:7.
So, you will not die physically? Maybe all these Christians that went on before us and are buried in graves have been lied to - your lie.
I never said anything about "desire" to sin.
But I do know what God says on the matter and He tells me through Saul that even though my sins have been atoned and my desire to sin against God is tempered by the Presence of the Holy Spirit (note: that ye cannot do the things that ye would - meaning not sin
as much):
17 For the flesh lusteth
against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other:
so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. Gal. 5:17.
...my sin nature is ever present with me, and I echo what Saul said here:
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but
I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it,
but sin that dwelleth in me.
(
spoken like a true, born again Jewish Christian. But verse 14 "sold", wasn't I bought with a price? When Saul wrote this he was a born-again Christian for about 17-20 years.)
Moving on...
18 For I know that in me (
that is, in my flesh,)
dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
(
The Great Apostle says he still sins! halellu-JAH!)
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Rom. 7:14–25.
I'm not going to put too much effort in italics and underlining and bolding since you've already shown me you don't accept the Word of God as written in a previous post.
You have some very obvious flaws in your belief-system and it's not the Jesus
that I know that is small or weak, but a Jesus that travels and goes forth in the power of His might.
Scripture says, "the soul that sinneth shall die."
Well, you're going to die (if the Lord tarries) and Christians have been proving that passage true ever since the Garden, and here comes you and you want to refuse to believe God's Word on the subject?
On your deathbed think of me and this truth: "The soul that sinneth SHALL die."
Think of Galatians 5:17 and Romans 7:14-25.
I chose to engage you because I saw some truth in your words to Seabass and Johann, and another, but I was wrong. You think more highly than you ought and don't even know it.
Remember, death is the penalty for sin. It is appointed unto man (and ladies) once to die and after this the judgment.
Figure this out if you can: Jesus Christ atoned for the sin of His elect on the cross at Calvary.
Death is the penalty for sin.
We still die, so whjat's up? Wasn't sin paid for on the cross? And if so, then I shouldn't die.
But I will.
And you too (if the Lord tarries.)