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It would be more accurate in determining that the material has a difference of understanding. To see actual truth and not comprehend it does not make it a "twist" but an evidence of the readers lack of "dividing the Word". "If you remove Paul's epistles from the Bible, you will be bereft of...

By the body of the Lord Jesus on the Cross believers were made dead to the law (a), in order righteously to be joined to Another, even the risen Lord. The reason why we had to die to the law was seen to be, not at all because the law was bad (it, on the contrary, was “holy, just and good”), but...

What one does shows what they are, not makes what they are, because saved or unsaved, everyone does what's in them to do; not what one does produces what's in them. An ungodly or godly lifestyle derives from an ungodly or godly heart; not an ungodly or godly lifestyle produces an ungodly or...

It's always speculative when attempting to determine another's condition (saved or unsaved) and such concern is acceptable if it's out of love, but if it is a believer he will eventually continue to exhibit more of godliness than ungodliness. As always is the case in every situation concerning...

Do you mean an unbeliever who might become a believer? You need to clarify "a struggling saint."

Concerning those who are other than yourself, only God knows for sure, just as He does for all. Concerning yourself, "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God" (Rom 8:16). This continual reassurance of the Holy Spirit to the believer comes only through...

The believer is now saved from sin's curse which provides for being saved from its punishment latter.

Ax, I don't have a problem with whatever you wish to call our correspondence with this issue. All the passages you listed mean the same thing. Either one is "eternally saved" (Heb 5:9) or was never saved at all (1 John 2:19), because this is the only type of salvation of which Christ is the...

Paul's concerns and "warning" (v 31) to those he knows are regenerated was not towards fear of any leaving the faith, but only towards being distracted from it, in order to attempt "to draw away disciples after them" (v 30), same as "false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs...

I do not see it as a warning (Heb 10:38, 39) but Paul stating a fact, that he was not of them who draw back. The deliverance out of Egypt was not related to their salvation but to their bondage to the Egyptians (400 years). The perishing of many Israelites was related to those who showed in...

If it were dead in the believer, the Spirit wouldn't oppose it (Gal 5:17) and Paul wouldn't write about it (Rom 7) and it wouldn't require "mortification" (Rom 8:13; Col 3:5).

It's not believer's this refers to but unbelievers because believers do not draw back permanently. As you've indicated, some come back and some do not and I believe only the ones who do not return are those who never really had part and I also believe there are those who appear to be part of the...

We are without sin's guilt and dominion now, but then without sin itself (the old man). The hardest and greatest faith is that which must be maintained in what Christ did, always believing that the Father never condemns us but only chastises us in our mistakes. The Father accepts us, not because...

Very applicable question. He will be presenting "us without spot or wrinkle" at His coming, which is the "first resurrection" and our bodies and soul will be as His--without sin. Only those who were not regenerated turn back, proving "they were not (ever) of us, "for if they had been of us, they...

I agree and I believe that it's the Spirit continually causing us to choose Him (Gal 2:13) and the Father continually working in us to choose Him (Phil 2:13). The work and credit must always go to Him for "keeping us from falling" (Jude 1:24).

Hi Ax - I like seeing that now it is His life that is our life (Col 4:4). Close but it's more like He does the perfect works in us and by us, because our works, even at best, are imperfect, due to still being part of the "old man." Possessing it unavoidably makes one a part of it, but for the...

Hi Episkopos - I believe we're semantically in agreement. To me, abiding means there is evidence of Christ in your life and it's more like He's holding on to us, not us holding on to Him.

The idea is that the believer's life is beyond that which is moral. Morality is the behavior of the natural man, but godliness is the behavior of Christ in the spiritual man. God does not desire to limit the believer to that which restricts its ways in just relating mankind to mankind...

Amen and thanks!

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