To be redeemed is to cease from sin.

I'm not so sure. While I think I may be able to understand the spirit of what you are saying, it is not in agreement with the letter of the law, as I see it.

For example:


I don't think you would feel anyone should run around saying he or she had ceased to sin.

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

If our minds are controlled by the Holy Spirit, we shall understand the lesson taught by the parable of the leaven. As the leaven operates on the meal, so the Holy Spirit operates on the human heart, absorbing all the capabilities and powers, bringing soul, body, and spirit into conformity to Christ. Man cannot make this change. It can be made only by the Holy Spirit. In those who submit to the control of the Spirit, new thoughts, new feelings, new purposes are awakened. The mind is changed; the faculties are set to work. . . . {5MR 346.3}

The moment we surrender ourselves to God, believing in Jesus we have the righteousness of Christ. We realize that we have been redeemed from sin, and appreciate His sacrifice to purchase our freedom. . . . This sanctification we must all experience, else we can never gain eternal life. It is obtained by a union with Christ, a union which no power of Satan can break. Christ demands undivided heart-service, the entire use of mind, soul, heart, and strength.--Manuscript 68, 1898, pp. 2, 6-9. ("The Leaven of Truth," June 9, 1898.) {5MR 346.4}

To be redeemed means to cease from sin. {RH, September 25, 1900 par. 10}

Given that, there is surely a sense in which it is true.

But you are right that I would not be comfortable with the idea of someone claiming they had ceased from sin. From the cross to the crown there is wrestling with inbred sin, warfare against outward wrong. Therefore, there is also a sense in which our sin remains while we are on this side of immortality.

I conclude that there are different kinds of redemption, and also different levels of redemption. Similarly, there are different kinds of ceasing from sin, and also different levels. So, while it is true that anyone who says he has no sin is deceived, it is also true that whoever is born of God does not sin.

Language is not nearly as precise as mathematics.

How does that work? Explain further.

There is only one level of redemption - ceasing to sin. I suspect those that do cease from sin (144,000?) will still not trust themselves and would never claim it this side of the second coming.

AMEN

Been blotted out from where?

Sins can not be brought back to remembrance. Explore that thought - in the second life, David and Bathsheba are speaking together and along come Uriah. Will David and Bathsheba remember their deeds? Next comes Solomon and sees Bathsheba and says hi Mom! Uriah sees the man and says, I did not have a son, when were you born. He discovers he was born 6 months after his own death. Awkward moment! Will they remember their "sins"? Will everyone forget their past? The saved get to heaven but have no idea why? Is behavior sin? Is the act of murder and adultery the sin? Or are these "sins" little "s", which are symptoms of the disease "Sin" big "S".

The disease Sin, has bad behavior, but as in medicine, if you treat the symptoms without treating the disease, your symptoms might not go away and you might get more of them. You have to treat the disease, and guess what? The bad behaviors go away.

There is no legal method of making sin go away. You can't legislate it. A person needs a new heart and right spirit. Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, said the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

So I guess you are saying the sins are blotted out from heaven.