Gnosticism

Dear Arno,I greatly appreciate the Midnight Call and your humble and straightforward pulpit ministry. I am trying to write out of loving concern.To make my point a little more clear, the following are reasons why the body itself cannot be sin.I give at least four reasons for this: 1. Jesus lived in a body just like ours, but He was sinless, as many Bible passages demonstrate. 2. Sin and the sinful nature is not a physical problem, but a spiritual problem. 3. Arno Froese’s interpretation of 1 John 3:9 is absurd and very close to the heresy of Gnosticism, the very heresy the Apostle John was writing against: the idea that sin is physical, and that the spirit can be pure and sinless even though the body is committing sin all the time. 4. The Apostle Paul called the body “the temple of the Holy Spirit”—if what Arno Froese has written is true, the Apostle was wasting his time telling believers to keep their bodies undefiled. -R. Grout