The above fails, as usual, to
provide a COMPETE list of all the verses using the word zao in the New Testament in order to
prove which verses are NOT referring to
being alive but rather to the spiritual
life [zoe] which is the source of it
,
and fails to provide adequate
reason for switching the meaning
in some verses only - even though the word
zao (being alive)
never refers to the zoe (life) that is the source of being alive,
and fails to
provide a COMPLETE list of all the verses in the New Testament using the word zoe in order to
prove which verses using the word are using it NOT in reference to life, but in reference to
being alive,
and fails to
provide a COMPLETE list of all the verses in the New Testament using the words égersis; anístēmi; and egeírō and anástasis (the words used in reference to
the resurrection) - at the very least the ones
referring to the resurrection whenever the words are used in reference to the resurrection
(the words égersis; anístēmi; and egeírō are not always used in reference to the resurrection: Sometimes they are used for rising up as in "get up!", or being raised up as a leader, or rising from sleep in a normal sense),
in order to
prove that when
the resurrection is being spoken about, the verse/s are NOT referring to the resurrection of the
body, but of the human
spirit,
and fails to
provide a COMPLETE list of all the verses in the New Testament using the words zoopoieo and suzōopoiéō and make a comparison between them all in order to
prove which verses are NOT referring to the quickening of the human
body (but to the quickening of the human spirit instead).
All your posts ever do is make long lists of blanket statements based on false assertions mixed with some biblical truth.
The reason for your confusion (and constant avoidance) is that you do not believe in the total depravity of man. You do not see that man is spiritually dead before salvation and needs spiritually resurrected. This is at the root of your ignorance and false teaching.
Scripture describes salvation in natural and physical terms – like resurrection and birth. Of course, this is not to be taken in a literal sense. It is figurative language. It is describing a supernatural event in broad terms that we can relate to and grasp. How else can a spiritually dead person move from death to life but resurrection? What better way to depict new life than in terms of birth?
1. The Bible says that the unsaved (who only have one nature – the flesh)
are “ignorant” (Romans 10:3; 1 Corinthians 14:38; Ephesians 4:18; Hebrews 5:2; 2 Peter 3:5) of God and spiritual things.
2. The Bible says that prior to salvation man is
a spiritual corpse that is “dead in … sins” (Ephesians 2:1; Colossians 2:13).
3. Prior to salvation man is
spiritually “blind” (Matthew 13:13, 15-16; 2 Corinthians 4:4).
4. Prior to salvation man is
spiritually “deaf” ((Psalm 58:4; Ezekiel 12:2; Matthew 13:13, 15-16).
5. Prior to salvation man is “
by nature a child of wrath” (Ephesians 2:3).
6. The Bible says that
“the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God” (1 Corinthians 2:14).
7. The Bible says that
“they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them” (1 Corinthians 2:14).
8. The Bible says
“All have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).
9. Prior to salvation
one is a spiritual “prisoner” of Satan (Isaiah 14:17, 42:6, 61:1).
10.Prior to salvation one is
bound in “chains” of sin (Psalm 68:6, 107:8-16; Isaiah 61:1).
11.Outside of Christ there is
“none that seeketh after God” (Romans 3:10).
12.Outside of Christ there is
“none righteous” (Romans 3:10).
13.Outside of Christ there is
“none that understandeth” (Isaiah 14:20; Romans 3:10).
14.Outside of Christ there is
“none that doeth good” (Ecclesiastes 3:12; Romans 3:10).
15.Prior to salvation
the unregenerate does not hear the words of Christ (John 8:43-44).
16.Prior to salvation
the unregenerate is not able to come to Christ (John 6:44, 64-65).
17.Prior to salvation
the unregenerate is not able to submit to God's law (Romans 8:7).
18.Prior to salvation
the unregenerate is not able to please God (Romans 8:8).
19.Prior to salvation you were
“alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works” (Colossians 1:21).
20.Outside of Christ your “old man” was
“corrupt according to the deceitful lusts” (Ephesians 4:22).
21.Outside of Christ you were
‘vain in your imaginations, and your foolish heart was darkened’ (Romans 1:21).
22.Outside of Christ you were
‘walking in the vanity of your mind, Having your understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that was in you, because of the blindness of your heart” (Ephesians 4:17-19).
23. It says,
“the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” (2 Corinthians 4:4).
24.Outside of Christ the Bible says
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9).
25.The Bible says that outside of Christ
“I know nothing by myself” (1 Corinthians 4:4).
26.The unsaved
“are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6).
27.The Bible says that
outside of Christ man is “deceived” (Job 12:16, 15:21; Romans 7:11; 2 Timothy 3:13; Titus 3:3; Revelation 18:23, 20:10).
We are looking at sinful man outside of Christ. We are looking at man who has not been raised from the grave of his sin. We are looking at man who has not been brought from spiritual death to spiritual life.