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Originally Posted by Israfel'sTrueFaith
...Is that so? Then, apparently, children born and baptised and hole-schooled in Christian values cannot be sinners, right? Wrong! And what about True Christians who stray? Were they of Him or of the devil?
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Read it again, but the whole thing this time.
1 John 3:5-9 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
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Originally Posted by Israfel'sTrueFaith
Also, so, you are not a True Christian™ if you stray? What if you strayed before but now do not?
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It depends on the severity of the sin. Permanent shunning is always a possibility as Paul tells us.
1 Corinthians 5:9-13
9I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
10Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
12For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
13But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.