There is agreement that there is danger but to outright call someone a non-Christian because of watching sinful behaviour is not his call, that belongs to God alone.
no one has done that -you've tried to imply that before .as if one of us has made that judgement
but as I have said before - judge yourself on these topics .. not others .
it is the word of god which states that a person who is continually practising sin -" does not know god ,nor has seen him ".
because a person who has come to know god and experienced his grace ..ceases from practising sin. Because they live in the spirit to obey the holy spirit ..and it is impossible to sin while obeying the holy Spirit for he is incorruptible .
( I understand that I do not portray what I'm saying in a manner that all will get and that is my failing and due to that failing some misconstrue what I say - but it remains that the word of god is true no matter how uncomfortable to us .
God does NOT desire any of us to continue in a cycle of failing to sin.when the truth is, he sent Jesus to set us free
and whom the son sets free is free indeed.
and once set free -we need not fear going back to serving sin again..all we need do, is walk in obedience ,henceforth, and we will not do anything which we unambiguously know to be sin.. and as we mature in christ we will not even do things which we discern as sinful in nature .. and as we mature more we will not even go near anything that we discern to have a sinful motive hidden in it because we will discern it in the holy Spirit and we will eschew evil .
if that sounds complicated let me simplify it
I used to watch lots of movies and tv .. then I stopped watching bad movies.. then I stopped watching bad tv .. then I stopped watching almost all movies then I stopped watching almost all tv ... then I stopped watching ANYTHING which did not directly glorify god and shun anything that I even suspect will not glorify God .. then I stopped watching ANYTHING that does not glorify god or that I even suspect will not glorify god .. - see the process ..as I listen and OBEY the holy Spirit he guides and leads us OUT of the world's things and he separates us from the world .. HOLY means separated unto God ..set aside , no longer mingled and mixed .. no longer clean and dirty water stirred together in a cloudy confusing world of grey -but a defines life where good is good and holy is holy and sin is eschewed in even an implied forms ..
This, one example, is a result of listening to and obeying the holy Spirit .. I recall in times past that I could not even perceive how such a life could be - yet here now I testify to you not of an ideal , but of the reality of what he lord is doing in my life .
and the result is as I no longer pursue the things the world tells us are just fine .. I found myself pursuing the will of god, and lay hands on the sick and see them healed because he commanded us to do so ,share the Gospel, drive out demons ..went from wondering how to do these things to actually doing these things ,have experienced baptising people and laying hands on them to receive the holy ghost and seen them speak in tongues and then seen them go and do the same things to others as disciples make more disciples .. it is the simple math of obedience . and none of it began to occur until I began walking in that obedience .. DO what the lord is telling each of us to do and stop sitting in church on a Sunday and doing nothing he has actually told us to do .
Are we saved if we continue in sin.? ABSOLUTELY NOT -for to whom we yeild our bodies as servants to obey -his servants we are to whom we obey .
and why should i ever yeild to the master of sin after JEsus has set me free - there is no power in the universe that can compell me beyond my own will to do so . for i am not under the law of sin and death .
obediecne is not on auto pilot .
