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Just more deflection? Well, you're consistent, at least... Why was Paul writing the above to the Christians at Corinth? Because they were living after the manner of people who had been washed, sanctified and justified by the Holy Spirit (vs. 11)? Obviously, if they had been, Paul's remarks...

He wasn't speaking to a Christian audience about Christian living. See above. No, there's no conflict except what your mishandling of God's word has produced in your mind. Works of righteousness have NOTHING to do with our salvation. NOTHING. This God's word repeatedly and explicitly states...

Of course Jesus's sacrificial death was only "valid" after he had made it. How could the effect of an event be in force prior to it happening? To think such a thing is possible would be very irrational. What were the various OT sacrifices under the Old Covenant for if the Jews had been always...

I'm not trying to make the Bible state whatever I want it to state. I offered examples of "should's" to Christians in the NT only because you claimed there were none. "Should" isn't the same as saying "will." I don't recall Paul ever writing, "You will do thus-and-so," as though it was a...

The idea that I always have full freedom to choose to remain a child of God is a widespread belief within the Church, but this idea has its roots in secular philosophy rather than in Scripture. The words of Christ flatly deny this notion: John 10:27-29 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them...

The old Self, the person we are apart from God, "dead in trespasses and sins," "foolish, disobedient, deceived," "at enmity with God," is pathologically self-interested (Ro. 6:6; Eph. 2:1-3; Tit. 3:3; Col. 1:21). Above and before all, the carnal old Self wants to be gratified, and lauded, and...

To all: Be very careful about taking your understanding of a particular view from the opponents of that view. ALWAYS some mischaracterization or distortion is given by those who oppose the view they're attempting to define. So, instead, ask those who espouse the view, especially those who...

No, I don't bunch together the law-keeping of the OT Jew under the Old Covenant with the "works of righteousness" or "good works" mentioned in the NT. The laws of ceremony and separation (but not morality) given to Israel through Moses are done away with under the "new and living way" formed in...

Romans 7:4 (BRG) 7 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. Romans 7:4 (KJV) 7 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to...

??? I'm not particularly interested in what gotquestions has to say. Why should I be? I can read God's word directly and understand its meaning for myself perfectly well. I have Bible lexicons, Greek-to-English interlinear New Testaments, Bible concordances, and trusted commentaries, I have a...

Well, I'm not a new believer; I've been a child of God for fifty years. I've served as an Elder/Teaching Pastor, Youth Pastor, Bible Camp director, and one-on-one discipler of men over the last thirty years. How about you? Instead of God's word growing secondary in my mind and my speech, it's...

??? You'll never get a response from me about Christian belief and/or practice that doesn't include God's word. There is nothing more relevant to everything than God's Truth. Why would you require strangers online to fit your mould of interaction? "To each their own," I think, which is why...

This is very true! But I wouldn't say "we." I don't take a consumerist view of my participation in the life and work of the Church, following the biggest noise and greatest activity within it. Does God's word agree? This is what matters. And when I read 1 Corinthians 12, Ephesians 4:4-16 and...

No, I'm not your parent. I don't recall saying that I was... There are a number of non-negotiables, essential elements, of walking well with God. Faith is one. So is knowledge, and love, and submission. There are others besides these ones. It is not enough to please God merely to know and...

It isn't merely that I say so. God's word does. Yes, if you've been born-again, you've gained a spiritual family; and to that family each member of it has God-commanded responsibilities. No Christian can claim to be walking well with God while neglecting the Body of Believers of which God has...

Again, when Paul wrote "in me, that is, in my flesh dwells no good thing," he could not have meant that his actual bodily tissue carried evil in its DNA. If Paul fell unconscious, his body would do NOTHING. Without the soul called Paul, Paul's body would be an inert lump, incapable of doing...

Well, you're entitled to your opinion... I disagree, of course. And I think, if there is "fog," it's on your end, not mine. By the way, there is no thinking of any kind that is not in some sense "philosophy." I wonder, then, about your remark about "dressed-up philosophy." Understanding...

That Day is always approaching. Every second that passes, it draws nearer. There is no time, then, that is excluded from "the day approaching." And the writer of Hebrews doesn't say to begin to assemble together when the the Day is seen to approach, but to do so even more when it's approach is...

Do you mean in regards to the basis upon which one is saved? His example puts a BIG crimp in the idea that one has to have good works (e.g baptism) that accompany their salvation in order for them to be truly saved. But he did fulfill the requirements of Romans 10:9-10: 9 that if you confess...

A church that knows and loves God and His word and whose members reveal the life and work of the Holy Spirit in them. Yes, right. Do you think this means that a Christian may be a church all by himself? Is this what God's word says? The buildings in which the Church meets aren't important...