Hebrews 12:5-7 "…5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you. 6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.” 7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?…"
1 John 2:1 "My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous."
Unbelievers are not called God's "little children"; only believers and unsaved people do not have an advocate with the Father, only those who have been changed into a new creation by Christ.
Those who think born-again believers never sin after being saved are denying our struggle with the flesh. Our bodies do not go to heaven when we die because they are sinful flesh; only our Spirit, possessing the Holy Spirit, goes to God upon our death when we are born-again.
2 Corinthians 5:8 "but we are of good courage and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord."
The flesh is sinful, and no sin can go in front of God, so it remains here when we die. Our Spirit has been born of Christ and it goes to the Father when we die.
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