That is assuming Jesus had to die before He could walk like Himself. We walk in His resurrection life once we are crucified with Him. That life is given to us when we die with Him...on His cross. The result is being translated into the kingdom realm...where we are set free from the bondage to sin...and the limitations we have by being in the flesh.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Nobody seems to actually believe that. It takes faith to receive the gospel in full resolution.
No. It is in Jesus...and will always remain there. So we are to remain in HIM so as to partake of His power...
to be where He is. You didn't comment on John 14 and how we have an abiding place in the kingdom ...WHEN ...we are where He is. That where I am you shall also be". The difference between belief and faith is that
belief says...one day when I'm dead I'll be able to abide with Christ and bear eternal fruit...but not now.
Faith says...I have access to the fullness of God right now. Faith doesn't try to take away from this.. .
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, [18] May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; [19] And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fulness of God.
That's the assuming again. You won't go to God because you think you already have all sufficiency within you. The point of getting a sample of grace is to have you
go to Him...
if you desire intimacy with Him...and return to Him the same way the one leper out of ten did.
No one dies to the flesh little by little. We can be weaned of the flesh to a certain degree. Mixing that up with being dead is what Paul is referring to when he says...
always learning (improving) but never coming to the knowledge of the truth. IOW...always remaining in the limitations of the carnal flesh rather than going to God to be translated into the kingdom realm...to walk as Jesus walked.
Again, we can be weaned of that dependence...as a standard under the law. David speaks of this. Of course that also is necessary. But in the NT we have the full measure of grace to consider...or to ignore as so many do.
John the Baptist was a righteous man. Nice of you to quote him. But One who is greater than he has come. Find out about Him.