Pastor Gary wrote:Can you please cite a scripture (KJV will be just fine) for the concept of "perpetual sin"? If one tells lies, stops and tells no further lies, are they perpetually a liar for the lies they have already told?
How about Romans 6:1. Sure, it's in the negative voice here, but it underscores the idea of one being able to continue in sin.
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Of course then, there is the NIV of 1 John 3:6. It says...
No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
Keeps on, continues to, & continues in are synonymous with "perpetual."
So, following your logic: a person who had been divorced, and then got remarried... only to realize they were repentant, should stay where they are and quit divorcing and remarrying. After all, breaking TWO covenants is worse than breaking just one, isn't it?
ONLY if the first covenant has in point of fact been dissolved and is no longer binding. See the reply to the next quote for more about that.
Imagine that! Believing that the blood of Jesus cleanses from all unrighteousness and then living as if their sins are as far as the east from the west! The audacity!
There is one slight problem there PG. Those who believe their sins have been pardoned and are gone have turned to God from their sin, leaving it behind. According to the NT a person who is in a marital state of adultery continues to be in adultery as long as their spouse lives, even if they are technically married to another person, UNLESS there previous spouse is dead.
Romans 7:3 wrote:So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Notice that the duration of the sin is explicitly connected to the longevity of the so-called "previous" spouse. Hence, this sin of adultery is ongoing "while the spouse lives".
Evidently then it is possible to be divorced and remarried by earthly standards and yet still in truth be in marital union with the living spouse.
Of course, if the spouse is dead there is liberty to remarry. But then, that itself argues against remarriage
while one's spouse lives.
Again, unless one can show a definitive case where God has dissolved their union with their spouse (
not saying that there is such a thing, just permitting that IF such were so that would constitute an exception here), permitting remarriage without any attachment of sin being involved, they are still Biblically bound to their previous spouse and covenant. So long as that spouse lives if they remain remarried they are committing adultery.
