Quote Originally Posted by kevint View Post
20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, 21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

19 And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;

I set things in this order hoping to show that there may be an end to the need for "prophetic word", perhaps this includes all scripture. Is it wrong to take Jesus' words out of their narrative context and accept them as they are for what they say?

The morning star is imagery from Revelations; and as I understand from replies any sort of enlightened state, state of perfection is reserved for His second coming in the accepted view of the church.

Sin is one of those words that a lot of people demonstrate an aversion for. There is a lot of "judgment" -they feel judged, condemned by those who are telling them they are sinning- Do we need to have a greater understanding of what "sin" means? The apostle did say: "all things are lawful to me" (now it may be that he was referring to the Law of Moses; but he did say All Things)

Is there a state of being; having the mind of Christ, as the scriptures say, that surrenders all things to God, so that your actions are in accord with the will of God- which would be either no sin, or anything that might be seen as sin from the outside, is not sin because it is surrendered to God?

Which is to say the Final Authority, is that witness within the individual, the awareness of God, which is the peace of God.
I would think that the witness within, the awareness, and the peace of God is the result of and not the Final Authority.