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It stands to reason that the more a Christian applies His life to the study of the Word, the more the Spirit is going to "teach" (1 Co 2:13). Commentators generally agree in everything and thus teach the same. Being different people there will be different ways of explanation, but the general...

Hi JAN - Truly, faith in Christ's resurrection is essential for receiving salvation (Rom 10:9), and Paul new most of those in the Corinthian church were believers in His resurrection, and so was presenting unmistakable evidences to them all to refute any arguments against this truth. Bible...

My friend, I would start conferring with Bible commentators if you truly desire to search for Biblical truth, otherwise we are limiting our understanding (Psa 3:5), for "if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know" (1 Co 8:2). Not using men of God's Word...

Now, if you want to fantasize something that the Bible says, fantasize this: Our saved soul is already "seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." When we are saved, we are one essence (Holy Spirit) with the Father and the Son (Jn 17:21-23). Even Jesus, while He walked the earth .. His soul...

Hi SP - I do not see that "unless you believed in vain" establishes a conclusive determination other than being hyperbolic in saying "unless a faith in Christ is vain, e.g. untrue. The phrasing here gives the positive sense in that faith in Christ is never vain. It's semantic to saying "the...

There is no time like the present for you to begin resting in your Father’s presence. He sees you there, in His beloved Son. It is a simple, scriptural matter of seeing yourself there “in full assurance of faith” (Heb 10:22). You are there in glory before the Father; not in the flesh, not in the...

Right!--that is if you know what to believe concerning Him, which is termed "essential doctrine." These involve Scriptural teachings requied for receiving salvation (redemption): Believe He's the Son of God - Jhn 20:31; Act 8:37; 1 Jhn 3:23. Believe in the "forgiveness of sin" only through...

True, they all are together!

Agreed, all true! I think we're in agreement here to, but the way I see it is that repenting (first desire then application learned by the Word) is made unto a soul from God (Rom 2:4) which prepares for salvation, and in salvation (redemption) comes everything else simultaneously, e.g. faith...

I wanted to add that I meant faith in Christ is the only step in receiving salvation. The rest within Soteriology involves works (obedience) which manifests (justifies) this faith.

Faith in Christ is always the first step in a salvation, and this faith grows and shows itself in obedience.

The spiritual meaning of the Mosaic Law is God revealing the inability for man to be union and fellowship with Him, which requires a perfect, sinless heart and mind, a human condition that only the Lord Jesus has effected, and of which those born again will be brought to in the resurrection...

As mentioned previously, the phrase "without the law" (v 9) means without the spiritual meaning of the law while he was under it. It wasn't until his rebirth from faith in Christ--by the Spirit, when he learned this. Before the Spirit was "given," faith in Christ saved, same as faith in God...

Give this a test view by Gill: "For I was alive without the law once,...." 'The apostle says this, not in the person of Adam, as some have thought; who lived indeed, in a state of innocence, a perfectly holy and righteous life, but not without the law, which was the rule of his actions, and the...

"When the commandment came" means when he finally understood the spiritual meaning of the Law. Pharisees and Sadducees did not fully understand the spiritual meaning of the law of God.

When Paul claimed he "was alive once" refer's to the peace and security he experienced as a Pharisee under the Law, of which when he learned the true sense of the Law found it to reveal to him that all along he was dead in sin.

NC said: The word "many" here is in the same sense as "all", and is synonymous with the preceding verse 18 concerning the word "all."

It's the tempting that brings out that which is within, not instills that which does not exist, but manifests its presence (sin nature). It was not Eve's sin that instilled the sin nature but manifested its presence. I can see the sinful desire in the phrase "to make one wise," (Gen 3:6), but...

I believe it's very instructional to determine what is "cause" and what is "effect." My acceptance is that the sin nature is the cause or source of sin, because the sin nature does not derive from sinning, but sinning is derived from the sin source, just as "the goodness of God" is the source of...

Not sure we're discussing the same subject, but our nature is sinful and will never, even in the next life, be divine. Though our new nature is sinless, it cannot be divine. Divinity involves deity only, and this is a very common truth among nearly all Bible Christians. Jesus' nature is the...