Recently, our christian brother Jeff Durbin of Apologia Radio, was interviewed twice for project that he is doing called End Abortion Now - (Interview 1, 2).
During the interviews, the host of the show that he was on, was pushing false/heretical doctrine known commonly as Sinless Perfection.
In the last post, I looked at some verses that are use for the position and against the position.
This time, we'll see what would happen to the scriptures if their position was true.
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2. Contradiction and Consequences
Those who hold to sinless perfectionism will usually dismiss the context and continue to force their position.
This, of course, means that the scriptures are contradictory, and therefore cant be considered the word of God... at least those books that present the contradiction.
For example, if their position was true, we'd have to get rid of romans, and anything that is from Paul before that point in his life.
Why? Because Paul contradicts this position, which in turn contradicts 1 John 3.
Romans 7:17-25 (ESV) So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.
Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
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Here, we see the Apostle Paul describe the life of a believer. But he does so by pointing to himself and what he struggles with and sees within his own life.
According to Jesse Lee Peterson's take on sinless perfectionism, Paul couldn't be an apostle because he still sins. Therefore is of the devil because one born of God can't sin.
It actually gets worse.
In the letter to the Galatians, we see the Apostle Peter sinning as well.
Galatians 2:11-14 (ESV) But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.
For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party.
And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.
But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
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So according to Jesse's doctrine, Peter wasn't an apostle either, nor was he saved for that matter.
This means we need to disregard anything Peter said to the church authoritatively. As he wasn't speaking the word of God.
If you notice, the new testament is starting to get smaller.
However, that's not even the worse part.
You see, for Jesse's doctrine to be true, God would have to be wrong.
You see, Peter was one of those who were filled with the Holy Spirit on the day of pentecost.
He is one of those who spoke in tongues and was one of the people God used to draw to the Jews attention that God was also saving gentiles via the incident at Cornelius' house.
Barnabas, whom the Holy Spirit commanded the church to set aside for the work He called him to, was said to be a Holy Spirit filled believer in Acts.
Acts 11:22-24 (ESV) The report of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose, for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were added to the Lord.
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The reason I'm pointing this out is because only believers are filled with the Holy Spirit.
Romans 8:9 (ESV) You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
Christ Jesus even tells us that those who are not saved, meaning they're of the world, can't receive the Holy Spirit.
John 14:16-17 (ESV) And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
If Jesus is correct, then Jesse is wrong.
If Jesse is correct, then Jesus and the Holy Spirit are not God because they do the opposite of what Jesse says can happen.
So the Holy Spirit shouldn't have filled Peter and Barnabas as they weren't saved as evidenced by their sin later on.
Only those who are saved cant sin.
Also, Jesus shouldn't have said the world can't receive the Holy Spirit when they surely can.
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