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First I didn't call you a Calvinist. Second, I am hearing everything you have to say. I think you are wrong. What you say is simply not biblically accurate. The very idea that God would impute the sins of one to another is heresy. That is an ugly affront to God. Would you punish one of your...

That is the heresy propagated by Augustine and picked up by Calvin. It is gross. Yes I have and it saddens me terribly that there are those who claim to love God and to believe in His Son, Jesus, who could ever think God would do such an evil and malicious thing as instill a dead spirit into...

Yes, it was absolutely necessary that Jesus die. It was the supreme sacrifice that allowed God to be true to Himself. In His Holiness He cannot overlook sin of any sort. He must punish sin. In His Mercy and Graciousness He desires to forgive the sinner. The perfect sacrifice of His one and...

Not true. God formed your spirit in you (Zech 12:1). Do you really think He gave you a dead spirit? You were spiritually dead and was made alive. Born again spiritually, not born again physically. God's own words to us.

And you need to take an English refresher course.

You seem to be dodging here, still havimg no answer to my question. I would think that someone, professing to have been born again and having the Spirit speak directly to you, as you do, would know the answer to that rather simple question.

So then, you do not know the answer to my question. Why not just admit it?

Can one be reconciled and not be born again? Is there a difference between reconciliation and regeneration?

Can one be born again and not be reconciled?

Obviously, not very well. For example, what is the difference between being reconciled and being regenerated? If one has been regenerated, then what does reconciliation accomplish? Or if the regenerated need to be reconciled, then what did regeneration accomplish?

To become by imputation, not by impartation. To become is an ongoing process. To be made is a once and done.

Growth is all about sanctification.

Yes and she denies even being a Christian.

2 Corinthians 5:21 (ASV) Him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him. (ESV) For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (ISV) God made the one who did not know sin...

Your theology on justification, righteousness and sanctification says otherwise.

The question here to be answered is who are the "many" for whom are made sinners and who are the "many" who are made righteous. The only rational and exegetically correct answer must be that the many are the same in both cases. It is the newborns that are being referenced. What that means is...

Behold, are you Catholic? One of the major differences between classic Roman Catholicism and Reformation Protestantism is that Catholicism teaches that we are made righteous while Reformation Protestantism teaches that we are declared righteous. You are so close to the truth, but so wrong in...

The problem here is that Romans 5:19 is not talking about the baptized believer, the born again. Just as the reference of the effect of Adam's disobedience to the newborn human being, so also is the reference of the effect of Jesus' obedience is to the newborn human being. What Paul is telling...

As I said, you are confused. You simply do not seem to understand the meaning of some words.

We are not made righteous; rather we are imputed with the righteousness of God. That is different, perhaps a subtle difference, but an important difference. We are not made righteous; rather we are declared to be righteous. We are not made sinless. We are forgiven. It is an act of God called...