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Explain The 1 Corinthians 15:49-50 Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:46-53 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those...

Some things bear repeating and so, let me repeat that "freed from sin" doesn't mean we will never again endure temptation to sin; it doesn't mean we will never again hear the "call" of the old Self, or never again feel the impulse to act according to the carnal, godless patterns of desire...

From what I understand of God's word, the surest and simplest way to know that I'm truly saved is to examine whether or not the life and work of the Holy Spirit is in evidence in my life in the way the Bible says these things will be in the person who's become a "temple" of the Holy Spirit (1...

In Romans 6 where Paul wrote of being a servant of whatever one obeys, he was not speaking of salvation, he was not saying that being a servant/slave of sin resulted in the loss of one's salvation, but that a Christian who lived as a slave to sin was living entirely contrary to who they actually...

Romans 8:35-39 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” 37 Yet in all these...

You do here with my words what you do with God's word, redacting my statement to suit your bias and preconceptions and offering a contortion of the truth as a result.

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No, once again, you're offering a Strawman of what I've written - even when my words are right in front of you. Nowhere in what I wrote in the quotation above do I say that Christians ought to give no importance to the fact God commands obedience of His children. In fact, a few times now in our...

No, not for many years. I'm a mix of Molinism and Provisionism, soteriologically speaking.

Strawman. False conclusion erected upon a Strawman. Uh huh. Just more Strawman stuff. This is still the tu quoque fallacy you're employing here. "You do it, too!" is not an argument for your views or a defense against criticism of your views. It's just a logically-fallacious deflection...

And your point is? It's not a one-or-the-other thing: one either reads Strong's and commentaries or the Bible. Instead, I read all three - as do many other Christians. I've already explained why John 15:2 is a mistranslation of the Greek word airo. Accept it or don't. But you'll need more than...

It's not that I don't understand what you've written above, it's that I don't agree that its correct. Hopefully, you can recognize the difference. And no, our obedience cannot contribute to our salvation because there is nothing left in Christ's Atonement for us on the cross that God's justice...

No, your conclusion that you've drawn from Christ's words in John 15 is obviously false, as I've shown from Scripture a number of times already in this thread. Airo (Gk.) translated "takes away" in verse 2 is badly translated because it is neither in keeping with the actual viticultural...

The same point holds true here as in the passage from 1 John 3, which is that John nowhere makes a person's salvation contingent upon their perfect obedience to God's commands. And, of course, John wouldn't write any such thing in light of what he'd written in the very first chapter of his first...

I'm not objecting to defending my view. I'm telling you that when you encounter a Scripture reference in my posts rather than the full verse or passage, that the reference is all I'm going to offer. If you want to know what the verse or passage actually says, you can do as I and others commonly...

The Force of Old Habit View. Instead of the vaguely schizophrenic idea of two warring natures within the born-again person, some have adopted the view that the "sin-nature" is just well-established habit, a deeply-set pattern of sinfully self-centered desires, attitudes, thoughts and actions...

Again, please just start your own thread where you can detail all that is wrong with everyone else's view and what is right about your own. It's very easy to do. This thread, though - if you don't mind - is about Romans 6 and what it means. I'd really appreciate it if you'd confine what you've...

Well, simply contradicting what I've explained doesn't dissolve the truth of that explanation. And it doesn't establish your view, either. Instead, try making a case for why I'm in error and your view isn't. I hope you understand that I'm not by any means done with going through the chapter...

Well, this may come as a surprise to you, then: I don't live according to what you think. I'm not defined in my thinking by your assertions about what I think. This seemed pretty obvious to me, but, apparently, you haven't realized that this is the case.

The Two Natures View. This view holds that within every born-again, freed-from-sin person there are two natures in constant battle with one another. Paul seems to describe this state-of-affairs in the passage from Romans 7 above and also in his letter to the Galatian believers: Galatians 5:17...