The book is about willful sin, not zero-exception sinlessness. And the Greek behind 1 John 3:9 is genuinely ongoing — but "ongoing" is at least two different things, and only one of them is a tally.
Read this post →Paul called himself a doulos of Christ: a slave who owned nothing and could not quit. English Bibles say "servant," a word with off-hours, and that changes how 1 John 3:9 reads.
Read this post →A widely held position says salvation, once given, cannot be lost: it is grace, period. The cross really was sufficient. That still answers a different question than the one actually on the table.
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