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Very wrong way of thinking. When a person believes a lie on that level one begins to sound like @Behold. The false gospel is...you are (all) dead to sin and your life is hid with God...as something to put faith in..without any qualifiers......whether we continue to sin or not. The sin we do...

One would have to understand the nature of being regenerated by the Spirit in the inner man. The outer man is still mixed in and needs to be PURGED out. The whole lump needs to become leavened. God only regenerated 1/2 of us. The rest needs to be cut away. The carnal man cannot be reformed...he...

I agree. I translate by comparison with other verses. The popular way adds in words to change the meaning. The religious agenda is to make verses reflect a previous ideology. For the organized religious factions, Christianity is a religion that has to fit ALL people by simple agreement. What...

And surely God saw Paul as a great apostle even as he persecuted the church. The problem is when we see OURSELVES as something we are not.

The is no "HE has made HIM"....look above at the 9999 (him to be) It should say...He was made sin for us (without telling us WHO did that) and 1096 ginomai should say...FULFILL or "be done" as in Thy will be done (ginomai)

This kind of "theology" comes from those who have never known the victorious walk in Christ. They think they can IMPROVE their walk over time...and on a righteousness level sure. We LEARN righteousness. But the NT is about holiness and no one can improve into holiness. It takes a translation...

I take issue with this statement. Reckoning oneself dead to sin is not a belief in what Jesus has done for all unless He has done it in you personally. To reckon is to impute or account. And here is where the meaning of words count. People think that to impute means to give something or claim...

God's position is that we obey His commandments...at least physically...for righteousness...or FULLY, by walking in the Spirit. I see "positional theology" as a human means of explaining away or "spiritualizing" what they can't understand.

How many Jewish rabbis do you think are addicted to porn? Maybe a few. But your own depravity doesn't take divine intervention to stop. Stop exaggerating your claim. Just become as you are supposed to be in obedience...just be at least like a Jewish rabbi who is not a believer. and leave it at...

Any non-believer is miles ahead of head cases like @Behold and others here. At least many non-believers still have some honesty and sense.

LOL. You will say anything to escape reason...a real joke. The free is FREEDOM...not having no cost like your false gospel. Zion is FREE from sin. In Him is no sin. Entering the kingdom costs you ALL. Being born again costs nothing. Your quest for freebies misses the truth of a liberty from sin...

Wow...unlearned and unstable. I did post it but you don't even recognize Paul's words....so much for being a Paul follower. (you will be rejected by Paul too on that day) Where do you think the "Jerusalem which as above" is located? But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of...

I make it a habit to not read your posts very closely...only so much hooey a man can stand. BUT...I will answer an "honest" question. You ask... What does it mean to be born again? Well I don't subscribe to the American middle class version of it, for sure. To be born again is to be birthed...

OK but the concern is when an obese person takes that obesity for being pregnancy. One needs to have a very close encounter with God to birth something that can emerge in a full-blown holiness. Or one can simply go to God with faith seeking after His grace, by forsaking everything in this world.

For some Who is DOING God's will? One is either holy or not...like being pregnant...no one is partially pregnant based on a incomplete understanding Not for many here. Look at the antics...the flesh raised up...the "how dare yous" of the carnal man. The self-justification. You would have...

Or we could speculate whether the actor that played Gollum, Andy Serkis, will be able to pull off directing a new movie? Non-biblical speculations abound....

Your false gospel that Paul warns about...your own man-made foolish contraption that justifies sin and falsehood.

More lies and foolishness. If I write a verse where God declares someone righteous...like Abraham, you will say that is only for the Jews in the OT. If I quote the many times the righteous are mentioned you will obfuscate and say that the testimony is from men. And they were both righteous...

James was speaking of truth on a righteousness level, since Paul is only concerned with holiness and glory. Righteousness is EITHER by works OR by faith...as is amply demonstrated in the bible. If one doesn't know this then one needs to study more. However, the reason Paul focuses so heavily...

A lot of people are encouraged in the religious system to read the bible and claim spiritual things for themselves as being "figurative"...since no one has any real experience in spiritual things. It's due to ignorance...but a WILLFUL ignorance. Paul said...having a form of godliness but...