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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Jesus said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit” – contrary to what we would expect, brokenness is the pathway to blessing! There are no alternative routes; there are no short-cuts. The very thing we dread and are tempted to resist is actually the means to God’s greatest blessings in our lives.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss

If [1 John 1:9] is a call to immediate confession of every sin we are in trouble: 1. We are in a logistical dilemma. We cannot remember every sin. If our forgiveness depends on this, we are in serious trouble. For this reason, most advocates of this theology say that the confession we are to do is to be for every known sin. But that is an accommodation to the text. It does not say that. Actually, no Christian has confessed every known sin either. 2. We are in a theological dilemma. We have a Catholic theology of sorts. That is, if forgiveness is dependent on our ongoing confession, then what if we die with unconfessed sins? Does this view of confession of every sin being essential for forgiveness and total cleansing mean that our sins are not separated from us like the east is from the west? Does it mean we are not forgiven? Does it mean we are not cleansed from all unrighteousness? In other words, does it mean that the work of Christ on our behalf is ineffective when it comes to forgiveness and cleansing? Does it mean that we are not justified until we get to the end of life, and only then if we have confessed everything? 3. We are in an exegetical dilemma. By this I mean that we cannot reconcile the fact that the same text admits to a continual cleansing from all sins on the basis of the blood with no conditions for the believer, while also requiring the condition of detailed confession in a contiguous verse.
Jim Elliff

    • Didache Didakay

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    Didache Didakay

    DIDACHE (di-da-kay)

    BASIC R.C. BELIEF An uninspired collection of Christian moral laws, directions for Baptism and the Eucharist and instructions for ministers. It is also called “The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles.” Although it may date from as early as the end of the first century, there is no reason to believe it to be Apostolic in origin.

    CHRISTIAN COMMENT Roman Catholics will often point out that the word “sacrifice” is used 3 times in the Didache, but the context shows it means the sacrifices of thanksgiving (Hebrews 13:15).

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