Expert: Ernie Laurence, Jr. - 2/2/2009

Question
QUESTION: Well he's still an allexpert,so this gives him the chance to do this to other people,what about that?

ANSWER: I have reported what you have said about him to the officials of All Experts.  That is about all I can do.  If what you have said about him is true, he should A) be removed from All Experts and B) be arrested, and C) receive psychiatric help among other things.

Ernie

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QUESTION: Well isn't it still my fault that he will get in trouble?

ANSWER: No, it is his.  Please put that out of your mind right now.  Your whole focus here should be trying to get back on the right track and doing what God wants you to do.  Let others concern themselves with this man.

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QUESTION: I'm sorry for asking it.
Okay well can i ask you something else?
When Christians sin does that mea that they backslide?

Answer
A good question.  

A Christian who sins is not necessarily "backsliding".

Again I would reference 1 John 1:7.  "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin."

A Christian who is walking in the light, who commits a single sin in a moment of weakness, is still walking in the light.  Christ's blood cleanses that person from the sin continually.

A Christian who turns from the light to walk in darkness, a willful, continual state of sinning, is no longer continually cleansed but needs to repent (turn away from darkness and towards the light) and ask for forgiveness.  This second case is what some call "backsliding".  I tend to avoid it because it is not a term found in scripture and is usually applied to Calvinistic teachings which are all false doctrines.

Do you see the difference?

In Truth and Love,

Ernie