Response to the Idea that God Forgives a Child Killer

Years ago, I wrote an article about Westley Allen Dodd, a man who was executed in 1993 for torturing, raping and murdering three young boys in Vancouver, Washington, about twenty minutes from where I live

Actress Jennifer O'Neill Tells Her Story of Abortion and Forgiveness

Here’s Jennifer O’Neill, actress, author, and spokesperson for the “Silent No More” Awareness Campaign, talking about her abortion. She’s well worth listening to.

What is the darkest or most difficult experience you have had to date?

A couple of weeks ago, we asked my blog readers to submit questions for me to answer. Here’s my answer to another one of them.

The specific question asked was, “What is the darkest or most difficult experience you have had to date that you are willing to share?”

Sinless Perfectionism: Are we no longer capable of sinning as Christians?

I’ve been asked about sinless perfectionism, the belief that once someone becomes a Christian, they are no longer capable of sinning. Because they are clothed in the righteousness of Christ, because they are a new creation in Christ, therefore, just as Christ cannot sin, they cannot sin.

This teaching has, at various times, had considerable prominence. There are some branches of Wesleyan, Pentecostal and Keswick thought that teach this. There are several passages of Scripture we can look at that I think make clear this doctrine of sinless perfectionism is incorrect. I believe it to be a false doctrine.