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Adventistische Schriften über: "Is it possible to live a sinless life?"
Answer
Through the sacrifice and example of Jesus Christ, complete provision has been made for believers to live a life free from sin. By cooperating with divinity and relying on the keeping power of the Savior, human beings can attain a state of Christian perfection and victory over all evil. This restoration is intended to be complete, allowing the believer to walk in the same holiness and righteousness that Christ demonstrated during His earthly life.
The Possibility of Christian Perfection
In His humanity, perfected by a life of constant resistance of evil, the Saviour showed that through co-operation with Divinity, human beings may in this life attain to perfection of character. This is God's assurance to us that we, too, may obtain complete victory.
Living a Holy Life in This World
And by this He has made and consecrated a way by which, in Him, every believer can in this world and for a whole lifetime, live a life holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners and as a consequence be made with Him higher than the heavens.
Provisions for Remaining Without Sin
Thus, Dear Brother, I have shown you conclusively... that in the economy of God’s grace there are provisions available to enable the christian to walk before God “in holiness and righteousness all the days of his life,” and so “to abide in Christ that he sin not.”
Reaching the State of Sinlessness
Everyone who resists temptation and in the midst of evil copies the pattern given in the Christ life, will through faith in the atoning sacrifice of Christ become a partaker of the divine nature... Everyone who by faith obeys God's commandments will reach the condition of sinlessness in which Adam lived before his transgression.
Freedom from the Law of Sin
Paul, therefore, found out a way, whereby to be free from the law of sin and death, and to have the righteousness of the law fulfilled in him. This could be nothing less than loving God with all the heart and his neighbor as himself; for he who does less than this is a transgressor.
Complete Restoration from Defilement
As the sacrifice in our behalf was complete, so our restoration from the defilement of sin is to be complete. There is no act of wickedness that the law will excuse; there is no unrighteousness that will escape its condemnation. ... His life is our standard of obedience and service.
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