A popular reel says hamartia just means "missing the mark," like an archer's arrow falling short. The etymology is real. But John defines his own word in 1 John 3:4: sin is lawlessness.
Read this post →Repentance is a turn toward God. Confession is agreeing with Him about one specific sin. How the two fit together, and why 1 John 1:9 needs both, in that order.
Read this post →No, the book doesn't claim literal, never-a-mistake sinlessness — it's specifically about willful sin. As for the Greek behind 1 John 3:9: does "does not sin" describe a habit, or a nature? Only one of those actually fits what John wrote — and it's not the one most translations assume.
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 →The Greek word behind "church" is ekklesia, a governing assembly of people. The English word comes from a different phrase meaning "the Lord's house," so the picture became a building.
Read this post →The Greek word behind "confess" means to say the same thing. Confession is agreement with God, not a show of sorrow, and that changes how 1 John 1:9 and James 5:16 read.
Read this post →John 5:24 is one of the stronger verses for eternal security, yet it falls short of "free grace" no matter what follows. The question it leaves open: believe Him for what?
Read this post →A popular online preacher argues that repentance is simply a change of mind, already contained inside belief. He is right about the word. The trouble is what he builds on top of it.
Read this post →“Can you lose your salvation?” treats salvation like a set of keys you could misplace. Scripture uses three tenses for it, which is a very different picture: a roof over your head while it rains.
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