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FAQ # 95
QUESTION 95 : Is there something as a carnal believer?
One person said:
"And so, sometimes out of ignorance or whatever
it might be, they attempt to gratify and meet those needs the same way
they did before they were saved, and therefore, you can't tell a carnal
believer from a lost man. That is, you can't tell the cold from the carnal
because the truth is, they're both acting the same way. Now, one of
them is in Christ and one of them isn't. One of them is lost and the
other one is in Christ. One of them knows about God and knows him in the
experience of salvation; the other doesn't know him at all. As far as
overt behavior is concerned, a carnal believer cannot be distinguished
from an unbeliever.
This is completely unscriptural. If you are a believer, that is, born
again, you will be different from unbelievers. You will not have a life
of sinning. John tells us this several times (1 John 5:18, 1 John 3:6,
1 John 5:4).
Therefore flee this term "carnal believer" or "carnal Christian,"
this person isn't saved and needs salvation if they continue in sin (eth).
"The carnal mind is enmity against God" (Rom 8:7). "Know
ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants
ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto
righteousness" (Rom 6:16)? “Little children, let no man deceive
you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the
beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might
destroy the works of the devil" (1 John 3:7,8). Some times we falter
and it can be considered carnal (1 Cor. 3:3), but we are not carnal Christians.
The two are contradictory. You can't be a Christian and live a continuous
carnal life or sin all the time.
"By fabricating this new type of Christian, who is behaving just
like the darkened, God-hating, hell-bound, Christ rejecters, multitudes
are being deceived." Christians are not sinners, for sinners are
of the devil.
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