Firstly, we hold firm to the biblical view that God’s word transcends time so there can be no question that any part of it may be thought of as old fashioned.

Secondly, the word “sinner” is not a man-made expression used, as some think, to profess Christian superiority over non-Christians.  Equally it is not Christians who decide who is, or who is not a sinner. It is God. By His sovereign will, sin applies to the whole of mankind since it is the basic problem of the world as God sees it. Christians accept that they too are sinners. Scripture does not say 'all unbelievers have sinned', but “all” (Including Christians) “have sinned” (Romans 3:23). We know that “there is no-one righteous” (Roman 3:10).  Since no-one is born a Christians we’ve become Christians by choice. Having been born sinners, we’ve become “born again” and saved by grace through faith in Jesus. That is the only distinction between believers and non-believers. Christians have no right to claim superiority and are expressly forbidden to do so since nothing we have attained is of our own effort.

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