Is Jesus the End of the Law?

[Lizbeth]

If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

Are you saying God would be an unjust judge for automatically judging someone an adulterer, while committing adultery? He has first to consider mitigating facts during the act of adultery?

Jesus is not our defense attorney to argue our side of the case against God's judgment, but rather He is our advocate to ask for forgiveness of them already judged guilty by transgressing the law of Christ, if we confess our sinning with godly sorrow.



My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
James was not speaking of personally sinning against the law, such as above in respect of persons, killing, and adultery.

James was speaking of the wisdom of Christian babes and novices not seeking to be instant teachers of the law and doctrine of Christ, and doing more harm than good.

From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

Christians can become destroyers of the faith by becoming false teachers, prophets, and apostles. By entering into ministry unwisely and without the personal calling of the Lord Jesus, good and faithful Christians can destroy themselves and others in the process.

Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

No pulpit is better than a bad pulpit.

All Scripture is of God and good and spiritual and profitable for instruction and wisdom in righteousness, but not all Scripture is the making of law of God.

The law of Christ is specifically His commandments to keep, which begins with loving God with all the heart, and our neighbors as ourselves, and the points of law to not transgress, as shown above in James 2.

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

The law defines what sinning against God is in detail, it codifies the list of don'ts, though shalt nots.

There are those who say the law of God written in letters of ink on paper is dead and no longer exists to judge sin, so that no one can now sin against any law of Scripture on paper.

That is a lie to excuse such sinning against the law as written in James 2 and elsewhere in Scripture, such as the works of the flesh, and the unrighteous that shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

I just know from honest observation of my own self as well as other born again believers that we all offend in many ways. I've never met a perfectly perfect Christian in my entire life.

An Advocate advocates on behalf of the ones he is advocating for, that's what He does. And Jesus ever lives to make intercession by ever standing between us and the wrath of God, which without Him we all stand deserving of. Oh praise Him for that, and pity the poor lost soul who doesn't know that blessedness and unspeakable gift!

All I know is, it’s a sad day in Christendom if mercy should become a dirty word and inspire automatic reactions of fear or assumptions of licentiousness. Of course grace is not an excuse for licentiousness, nevertheless grace is a real thing...we all need it more than we know, and we'd all be utterly sunk and condemned without it. Why, we all fall short by only seeing in a glass darkly, just for starters.

Even in the scripture you brought, we see the Lord adjudicating (because He’s alive and not a dead letter on paper) and making a distinction between "masters", those who ought to know better (because of their greater measure of grace/talents) and those who are not teachers and leaders in the church. Elsewhere Jesus spoke of those who would receive more stripes and those who would receive fewer, for the very same offense according to the letter. Rewards as well as punishments are adjudicated, eg, where Jesus said the last will be first, which on paper doesn't appear just.....and the woman who gave all she had out of her poverty will receive more reward than someone who gives a larger amount out of their abundance, even though on paper it would appear that the latter was more righteous.

Yes, we all stand guilty of offenses, but a just and righteous judge does take all the facts and mitigating circumstances into account before handing down sentence. The Lord takes everything into account in how He responds to us as individual souls as we journey through this life as well.

Likewise those in the church who counsel others need to be holy as the Lord is holy and adjudicate and seek God’s wisdom and will before applying a letter that kills. Know ye not that ye shall judge angels.

But as I said I certainly agree that we are not to take the Lord or sin lightly and use grace as a license to sin. Yes we always need to repent with Godly sorrow if something in our heart or behaviour falling short comes to our realization.

 

[Truther]

I just wrote a Thread, thanks you to, regarding that Question..
Thank for the inspiration, as i stated it as an answer to you, then just expanded it for the benefit of those that study their bible.

What happens to the SINNING : Christian


So, understand that falling from Grace, is not to return to sin, but its to lose the correct understanding of How God SAVED you., which is the result of broken faith.

Paul says that to lose this understanding is to become.....>"Bewitched", and "in the Flesh"

So falling from Grace is only a mindset, not a consequential situation(returning to sin)?

 

[Behold]

Here in a separate post, (because it’s so long), I’ll try to show a consistent theme that I see in the book of Hebrews,

The book of Hebrews is the one book in the NT that Satan uses the most to ruin the faith of baby Christians.
See, he can't ruin the faith of a strong and mature beleiver, but when you have a believer who is not grounded in Grace, and does not understand the basic principles of what it means to have become a new creation in Christ, then they are easily dragged into the docrines of Hyper Calvinism, and worse.
The end up believing they can lose their Salvation, and that is because they are seeing THEMSELVES as responsible for salvation.
This belief, is the opposite of Real Faith in Christ.

 

[Lizbeth]

The book of Hebrews is the one book in the NT that Satan uses the most to ruin the faith of baby Christians.
See, he can't ruin the faith of a strong and mature beleiver, but when you have a believer who is not grounded in Grace, and does not understand the basic principles of what it means to have become a new creation in Christ, then they are easily dragged into the docrines of Hyper Calvinism, and worse.
The end up believing they can lose their Salvation, and that is because they are seeing THEMSELVES as responsible for salvation.
This belief, is the opposite of Real Faith in Christ.

I agree there's a right and wrong way to understand scripture, as well as a right and wrong way to minister it. Falling from grace into law and legalism is a real danger, as is the opposite side of things. I dont' think Hebrews was really written to new believers though...."by this time ye ought to be teachers". There is the milk of the word which is easy to digest and new believers need to first get established in that....but also later on as we grow and mature, we do need to start digesting strong meat....we're like children growing who aren't really aware of the dangers and battles of this world until we become adults.

I've noticed with me (as well as other believers) that when I'm not ready to receive or understand something in the bible, it doesn't tend to throw me off, rather what tends to happen is that I just overlook it and pass it over. Maybe that's sometimes the Lord shielding us as "children" from realities we're not ready to face yet just as good parents do in life with their children...most aren't going to discuss nuclear bombs with a five year old. It's one reason why I feel that we don't always want to be trying to shove the "truth" down someone else's throat with a plunger, heh....let the whole word be preached, but maybe we should sort of stand far enough back to give God room to minister it to whosoever He will at any given time, as only He knows when and how.

Sometimes too though, I think there can be hindrances to growing in our own life/heart, that we need Him to help us heal from, eg, if we've received harsh and abusive parenting as kids, it can be triggering and make it hard for us to accept the disciplinary side of our heavenly Father, as well as it can be easier for some to fall from grace into hyper-self-criticism and legalism. In such cases we might need reassurance and comfort more than those whose growing up years weren't so traumatic. God is good, He is merciful, gracious and kind, as well as a powerful and wise Shepherd....there are dangers yes, but on the other hand I'm not sure He would let go or cast off a soul too easily...He goes searching for His lost and wandering sheep. "His rod and staff COMFORT me." Jesus was touched with the feeling of our infirmities as humans...He was tempted and suffered in all ways as we are in this life, that is even one thing that qualifies Him to be our High Priest....He knows all our ins and outs and is able to empathize with us in all our various circumstances, and that's why He is able also to judge us righteously.

 

[mailmandan]

So falling from Grace is only a mindset, not a consequential situation(returning to sin)?

The present tense of the word "justified" implies that these Galatians were contemplating justification by the law. They were getting side tracked by legalistic teachers. "You who are trying to be justified by the law have fallen away from grace," but had they fully come to that place yet? Galatians 3:3 reads: Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? The middle voice implies "making yourselves perfect" by means of self effort. The present tense indicates that the action is in progress and that there is still time to correct the error. If these Galatians lost their salvation and it was a done deal, then why didn't Paul simply say you "lost your salvation" and I'm done with you? Instead, in verse 10, he said - I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is. Why would Paul have confidence in these Galatians if they lost their salvation and it's all over for them? In verse 12, Paul uses hyperbole, As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

 

[Behold]

I agree there's a right and wrong way to understand scripture, as well as a right and wrong way to minister it. Falling from grace into law and legalism is a real danger, as is the opposite side of things. Hebrews wasn't really written to new believers though..

Rightly dividing the word, so that you show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not be ashamed.....takes time and study.
We are told to study the word, not just read it.
And Hebrews, is a very interesting book, as its not directed to the "church" or to a specific body of believers, , as you find with most of Paul's Epistles..
Yet in it, are deep revelations, included the understanding of why sin is redeemed, and also the instruction of how to stop committing "works of the flesh", as a believer.

The cure for a broken discipleship, ......and that is defined as "im saved 5- 40 yrs, and im sinning and confessing for 5- 4o yrs"....is not found in trying to be like Christ. But the answer that solves this type of defective disciplship is in understanding what it means to HAVE BECOME a born again, new creation in Christ.
Personal Deliverance is always found in correct understanding of the knowledge of the Truth that is centered on knowing God's eternal perspective of you as His Own born again.

 

[Lizbeth]

The cure for a broken discipleship, ......and that is defined as "im saved 5- 40 yrs, and im sinning and confessing for 5- 4o yrs"....is not found in trying to be like Christ. But the answer that solves this type of defective disciplship is in understanding what it means to HAVE BECOME a born again, new creation in Christ.
Personal Deliverance is always found in correct understanding of the knowledge of the Truth that is centered on knowing God's eternal perspective of you as His Own born again.

I sure do agree with this, amen.

But don't want to throw out the scriptures that warn us of danger either. I don't think they are meant to threaten us with the way a hostile man threatens others, but really to take it to heart and keep upon our hearts so that it will help to keep us. The preserving salt of His word.

This is hard to understand as well as to explain, I'll just leave it for you or anyone to consider, but there seems to be a way that God is sometimes speaking from a position of knowing the end from the beginning....even in Hebrews I noticed in a couple of places He is only really counting as His own those who He knows will remain in Him to the end......I think really that very eternal perspective you mentioned.

This is hard to explain, I don’t know if you caught my earlier post about this....I'll just leave this for you or anyone to consider, but there seems to be a way in which the Lord is sometimes speaking from a position of knowing the end from the beginning....even in Hebrews I noticed in a couple of places He is only really counting as His own those who He knows will remain in Him to the end.

Heb 3:6

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, IF we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.


Heb 3:13-14

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

For we are made partakers of Christ, IF we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;


See what this is saying here? This is why where those who were saying “Lord, Lord didn’t we do thus and such for you”, Jesus said to those who weren’t doing the Father’s will but their own, “Away from me I never knew you.” He is saying He never knew them NOT because they had never come to faith in the first place, but because from His eternal perspective and standpoint of His foreknowledge of them it’s AS IF He never knew them, He is only really counting as His own, those who He foreknows will be faithful and REMAIN faithful to His will. Remember the parable about the fish, lots of fish were caught in the net, but some were considered bad fish and had to be discarded. We as believers are tested and tried in this life and some unfortunately prove themselves worthy of discarding.....we do need to take our salvation and walk seriously and run this race so as to win it, and run it lawfully lest we be disqualified.

1Co 9:27
But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.

2Co 13:5
Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

And I do not believe any of this excludes or nullifies what you said above, where I quoted you.

 

[Truther]

The book of Hebrews is the one book in the NT that Satan uses the most to ruin the faith of baby Christians.
See, he can't ruin the faith of a strong and mature beleiver, but when you have a believer who is not grounded in Grace, and does not understand the basic principles of what it means to have become a new creation in Christ, then they are easily dragged into the docrines of Hyper Calvinism, and worse.
The end up believing they can lose their Salvation, and that is because they are seeing THEMSELVES as responsible for salvation.
This belief, is the opposite of Real Faith in Christ.

Sounds like you disagree with this....

Heb 6...

4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

 

[Truther]

The present tense of the word "justified" implies that these Galatians were contemplating justification by the law. They were getting side tracked by legalistic teachers. "You who are trying to be justified by the law have fallen away from grace," but had they fully come to that place yet? Galatians 3:3 reads: Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? The middle voice implies "making yourselves perfect" by means of self effort. The present tense indicates that the action is in progress and that there is still time to correct the error. If these Galatians lost their salvation and it was a done deal, then why didn't Paul simply say you "lost your salvation" and I'm done with you? Instead, in verse 10, he said - I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is. Why would Paul have confidence in these Galatians if they lost their salvation and it's all over for them? In verse 12, Paul uses hyperbole, As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

Dan, Paul was speaking about the keeping of the OT Law, and deep down you know that.

He was not telling them that they wasted their time obeying Acts 2:38.

 

[Behold]

I sure do agree with this, amen.

But don't want to throw out the scriptures that warn us of danger either..

You can't stop being born again.
Salvation is eternal.

"but what if i".

= You can't stop being born again.
Salvation is what God provides, and its not based on your behaivor, its based on the Cross of Christ, only.

 

[mailmandan]

Dan, Paul was speaking about the keeping of the OT Law, and deep down you know that.

He was not telling them that they wasted their time obeying Acts 2:38.

LOL! You basically ignored my post and couldn't resist the opportunity to mention your pet verse Acts 2:38. So typical.

 

[Taken]

If we are born again, we are "in Christ", and "one with God".
This never changes.
What does change, for some, is their perspective of how they go to heaven.

See, Legalsim, boiled down to the nut, is....."i dont trust Christ alone to get me into heaven"

So what is left, for that person?

= SELF EFFORT., which is literally to deny that Jesus is their Salvation.
Their faith in Christ is BROKEN, because its NOT THERE anymore.

They have FLIPPED, theologically, and faith wise, into ....>"here is what i have to do, have to maintain, and be careful not to do, so that i can get myself into heaven, if i get all those do's and don't do's right".

And this heretic, will have a LIST......of those SELF EFFORTS to try to SAVE THEMSELVES, as they do not TRUST in CHRIST ALONE, for their Salvation.

Here is a partial heretic's list of : SELF SAVING

1 Water Baptism
2. Law
3. enduring to the end
4. commandment keeping
5. abiding
6. confessing sin.

It is One Lord God FOR ALL...
Yet all people are not the same.
The Problem is People read/or are taught, AS IF every word applies to them....oh, oh, you cherry pick.......meant to be derogatory...when in fact the Scriptural term is “rightly divide the word of Truth”.

Of course EVERY word of Scripture is True.
Of course EVERY word does not Apply to Every Person.

Does Is Sav- ED, Are Sav-ED, shall be Sav-ED, Not Sav-ED...spoken in Scripture? Yes. And all those things Apply to the same one man?
Of course not.

They do not know the differences.

 

[Truther]

LOL! You basically ignored my post and couldn't resist the opportunity to mention your pet verse Acts 2:38. So typical.

This verse?...

38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.


I like this one...


16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.


And this one too....


The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience...


Get a good conscience, Dan.

Obey Acts 2:38.

 

[mailmandan]

This verse?...
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

I like this one...
16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

And this one too....
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience...

Get a good conscience, Dan.

Obey Acts 2:38.

All three of these verses above that you continue to misinterpret have already been thoroughly explained to you numerous times, but as usual, the truth just continues to go right over your head.

In 1 Peter 3:21, Peter tells us that baptism now saves you, yet when Peter uses this phrase he continues in the same sentence to explain exactly what he means by it. He said that baptism now saves you-not the removal of dirt from the flesh (that is, not as an outward, physical act which washes dirt from the body--that is not what saves you), "but an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ" (that is, as an inward, spiritual transaction between God and the individual, a transaction that is symbolized by the outward ceremony of water baptism).

I already have a good conscience. Unfortunately, you have a seared conscience.

 

[Truther]

All three of these verses above that you continue to misinterpret have already been thoroughly explained to you numerous times, but as usual, the truth just continues to go right over your head.

In 1 Peter 3:21, Peter tells us that baptism now saves you, yet when Peter uses this phrase he continues in the same sentence to explain exactly what he means by it. He said that baptism now saves you-not the removal of dirt from the flesh (that is, not as an outward, physical act which washes dirt from the body--that is not what saves you), "but an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ" (that is, as an inward, spiritual transaction between God and the individual, a transaction that is symbolized by the outward ceremony of water baptism).

I already have a good conscience. Unfortunately, you have a seared conscience.

What is the correct interpretation of this?...

38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and...

 

[Truther]

38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you(INCLUDING MAILMANDAN) in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and...


....yes or no?

 

[Truther]

All three of these verses above that you continue to misinterpret have already been thoroughly explained to you numerous times, but as usual, the truth just continues to go right over your head.

In 1 Peter 3:21, Peter tells us that baptism now saves you, yet when Peter uses this phrase he continues in the same sentence to explain exactly what he means by it. He said that baptism now saves you-not the removal of dirt from the flesh (that is, not as an outward, physical act which washes dirt from the body--that is not what saves you), "but an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ" (that is, as an inward, spiritual transaction between God and the individual, a transaction that is symbolized by the outward ceremony of water baptism).

I already have a good conscience. Unfortunately, you have a seared conscience.

Of course water baptism is not supposed to save you by washing the dirt off your body after work. What a silly idea you just presented. Nobody believes that. Baptism cleans the conscious via remission of sins per Acts 2:38. You present arguments that make no sense at all and that nobody believes.

 

[MatthewG]

Yes Jesus is the end of the law for righteousness.


“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, “The man who does those things shall live by them.”

But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down from above) or, “ ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.””
‭‭Romans‬ ‭10:4-13‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

See what Paul wrote earlier,


“Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭5:1-5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

 

[Behold]

They do not know the differences.

I was just speaking with a member who does not accept that SAVED, means SAVED.
He has been taught that SAVED, means..>"process of getting there". "first part".. "2nd part".. and "good luck".
So, that is just Legalism, same as always, as Legalism teaches that Jesus does not keep you saved.

So, if He doesn't, then WHO DOES?

A.) the person believes they are to do it....and that means they have no FAITH IN CHRIST.

Paul says this BELIEVER is "bewitched" "In the flesh", and "fallen from Grace".

 

[robert derrick]

Ok, you'd rather not answer the subject of the thread with a yes or no.

I just know from honest observation of my own self as well as other born again believers that we all offend in many ways. I've never met a perfectly perfect Christian in my entire life.

And you never will see any 'perfectly perfect' Christian in this life, because there is no such man on earth, including the man Jesus, who was not a perfectly perfect man either, nor does He command it to His people.

For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

Perfectionism is only after the resurrection of the body. Until then every man will have tempting thoughts, just like Jesus, but only the faithful reject them like Jesus, which is without taking them to heart to lust for them.

An Advocate advocates on behalf of the ones he is advocating for, that's what He does.

The only advocacy of Jesus, is to forgive them that repent, not to argue 'mitigating factors' for sinning with the devil against God.

There are no mitigating circumstances for drunken fornication.

All I know is, it’s a sad day in Christendom if mercy should become a dirty word and inspire automatic reactions of fear or assumptions of licentiousness. Of course grace is not an excuse for licentiousness, nevertheless grace is a real thing...we all need it more than we know, and we'd all be utterly sunk and condemned without it. Why, we all fall short by only seeing in a glass darkly, just for starters.

Mercy is good. Teaching sinning for life under the banner of grace is of the devil.

OSAS believers and teachers need no license for sinning, they just do it and teach it as by grace.

even though on paper it would appear that the latter was more righteous.

True, Those who do the letter of the law without the Spirit, only appear more righteous.

Those who are transgressing the letter of the law, have no righteousness of God at all.

Why, we all fall short by only seeing in a glass darkly, just for starters.

Sinning with the devil is coming short of the glory of God on earth.

Seeing through a glass darkly, is simply because our renewed and clean minds of Christ are not yet perfected.

Yes, we all stand guilty of offenses,

Yes you do. It would be wise of you not to judge all others as guilty as yourself, just because you like to believe it.


If nothing else, the flood teaches us that even if everyone is doing, it doesn't mean God won't judge everyone for doing it.

And everyone wasn't then, nor isn't now doing it, no matter how much OSAS offensive sinners like to say so.

Yes we always need to repent with Godly sorrow if something in our heart or behavior falling short comes to our realization.

We don't repent of unwanted thoughts from the devil, we just reject them out of hand. Having un unwanted thought is neither sinning nor coming short of the glory of God on earth.

Jesus had all such unrighteous and vain thoughts thrown at His mind from the devil, while being a man in mortal flesh, but without sin.

The perfectionism that says having a tempting thought is sinning against God, is ignorance at best, and self-justification at worst, for classifying all sinning with the devil against God, as just more 'imperfection'.

The faithful in Christ Jesus, like Jesus Himself, endure such temptation, without doing it.

Behaving on unrighteous thoughts is doing unrighteousness with the devil.

Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God.

No soul while sinning with the devil against God is born of God, but is a child of the devil. Mercy only comes by repenting of behaving like a child of the devil.