Sinless Perfectionism Heretics Claim to be Sinless and Perfect But Occasionally Make “Mistakes”
Posted : 28 Mar, 2021 10:21 PM
The False Doctrine of SINLESS PERFECTION / Bob L. Ross
Posted on September 9, 2010 by Timothy Oliver
The devil has deceived people in many ways and with many false doctrines, and the heresy of sinlessness in the flesh is one of them. Not many communities have escaped this heresy, and I am sure that wherever you may live, some false teacher has come along to propagate this doctrine. In fact, from the pulpit, over the radio, and on television, people are subjected to this heresy all over the world.
In view of the widespread area this false doctrine has permeated, we deem it wise to refute this heresy with the Word of God, in order to establish God’s people in the truth.
When One Is Saved
First of all, let us notice what happens when a sinner is saved. In Ephesians 2:1, we read, “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.”
This verse teaches us that a person becomes alive spiritually when he is saved. Note, too, that before being saved, the person was “dead” spiritually. Not dead physically; the flesh wasn’t dead; but “dead” spiritually. Now when the sinner is saved, he becomes “alive” spiritually. This has nothing to do with the old flesh, but with inner spiritual life in Christ. The flesh has been alive all along. Now the soul is quickened to life, or united to Christ’s life.
Notice another verse in John 6:63-“It is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing.” Here we are taught that God’s Spirit is the Agent who “quickens” a sinner to spiritual life, and that the flesh is profitless. The flesh is absolutely unprofitable in every respect. It is carnal, not spiritual.
The Two Natures
So when a person is saved, he is “quickened” to life-spiritual life in Christ-by the Spirit of God, and the flesh is not concerned therewith in the least degree. Thus, the Christian now has two natures that are alive-he has the fleshly nature and the spiritual nature. His spiritual nature was once “dead” (without Christ), but is now alive, so there are now two natures. The fleshly nature is the nature that he received from Adam at physical birth, and his spiritual nature is the nature he received from Christ when born again.
Paul tells us of these two natures in Galatians 5:17: “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.” Here we are told that the two natures of a Christian-his fleshly nature and his spiritual nature-are at war with each other.
Paul teaches the same truth in Romans 7:22-23, 25b: “For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 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. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”
We see here that both the spiritual nature and the fleshly nature are in every born-again child of God.
We Do Not Teach “A Sinning Religion”
I want to say in this connection that Baptists do not teach that a Christian has the privilege of “sinning a little every day,” as you may have heard some preacher say over the radio or TV. That doctrine is of the devil, and the idea that Baptists teach such-regardless of who said it-is of the devil.
What Baptists teach is exactly what Paul taught-that the flesh is good for nothing (spiritually) and that the Spirit and the old flesh are at war in the Christian. Baptists do not teach that a person can live a “sinless” life in the flesh, for as long as we are in the flesh, we shall have this warfare going on between the Spirit and flesh.
I heard a “sinless perfection” preacher once say that one could live sinless, but he would make “a few errors and mistakes along the way.” Now, where did this preacher ever get the idea that errors and mistakes are not breaches of the Law?
God’s Law demands absolute perfection, and one error or mistake brings condemnation. Listen to James 2:10-“For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.”
‼️‼️Sin is sin, despite the fact that some want to excuse it as an error or a mistake.‼️‼️
How Made Perfect
Secondly, look into the Scriptures and read how we are “made perfect.” The Law demands perfection, if we are to enter Heaven. Now, how are we to be perfect?
Well, we are made absolutely perfect before the Law of God by the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ.
Jesus lived in the flesh, under Law, and He kept the Law perfectly. Then He died to satisfy the Law’s demands against sin. Thus, He established the Law. He fulfilled both the perceptive and penal sanctions of the Law.
This is the righteousness Christ wrought out for us. It is absolutely perfect. When God saves us, He clothes us with this righteousness, and we stand perfect before the Law. We don’t have another deed to do to fulfill the Law’s demands, for Christ did it all. Listen to the Scripture:
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth -Rom. 10:4.
For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified -Heb. 10:14.
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him -II Cor. 5:21.
Now, that’s how we are made perfect. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord, and Jesus Christ’s righteousness is given to us and thereby we are made holy.
Brother, sister, you can have all the so-called “sinless perfection” you can muster up, but I would not swap the perfect righteousness that is mine in Christ for all the fleshly righteousness of all the so-called “sinless” people in the world. The whole crowd of self-righteous, hypocritical, white-washed Pharisees will split Hell wide open without the perfect, holy, imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ (Matt. 5:19-20).
Sinless Perfectionism Heretics Claim to be Sinless and Perfect But Occasionally Make “Mistakes”
Posted : 28 Mar, 2021 10:33 PM
The above thread was started to address the continual false teaching of Adam and Flat Earth TeddyBug (Teddyhug) who teach sinless perfectionism on the forums.
Both men refer to those refuting sinless perfectionism as “liars”.
Both men also falsely accuse those of us, who expose their historic heresy (sinless perfectionism), of teaching a freedom to keep on sinning.
Sinless Perfectionism Heretics Claim to be Sinless and Perfect But Occasionally Make “Mistakes”
Posted : 29 Mar, 2021 03:51 AM
brother david maybe we should be careful about what we say concerning sinless perfectionist dynamic duo fix a flat teddy and a is for adam apple jacks .
Perhaps they can be the two witnesses or even members of the 144000 ...... do not touch my anointed ones do my prophets no harm Psalms 105:15
