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Only A Sinner Saved By Grace???

not teach Christians to live a godly, separated

life.

“SIN NOT”

Scripture admonishes believers to “sin not”

(1 Jn. 2:1) and “Be ye holy” (1 Pet. 1:16) and

“be not conformed to this world” (Rom.

12:2)—and even when Jesus forgave the

woman taken in adultery, He told her

personally to “go, and sin no more” (Jn. 8:11).

Yet from what I can remember, this kind of

teaching was not emphasized nor promoted

in the churches and Bible studies that I’ve

attended over the years; rather, a pathetic,

helpless, defeatism attitude toward sin was

espoused: “I’m only a sinner saved by

grace.” In fact, I remember singing a hymn at

times by that title. But why would God

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