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Hmmmm... Well I agree... except for... "earthly." <smile> See above. I mean we'll all be on this planet, but... <smile> No, we have peace now, in Christ Jesus, Who is our peace. But as we all can see, the world is far from totally peaceful, and this will remain the case even to the end of...

Not merely future. Past, present, and future. Right, and this is the spiritual war ~ which is not "spiritual" in the sense that it is not real ~ going on all around us... right now. Has been, is, and will continue, until Jesus returns. Not all people, no. But "the nations," in the true...

Why are we speaking as if it is yet future? Because it is the present reality... <smile> As Paul says, "...we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in...

Agreed, certainly. <smile> Grace and peace to you.

Of course not; I don't have any propensity toward those... atrociously sinful things. Some do, though... Even so, though, all of us Christians have what we might call besetting sins, sins that we are particularly inclined towards, that we can't seem to shed. In some sense like an addiction...

Nope. There is nothing anywhere that says what these supposed sins unto death... or sins not unto death... are. Nothing that says ~ implicitly or explicitly ~ anywhere in God's Word that says (regarding any number of sins) "this/these sin/sins is/are unto death and this/these sin/sins is/are...

Ah, so God doesn't really mean what He says. Hm. <smile> Nope. Sin came into the world through one man ~ Adam, of course ~ and death through sin. That's not what Paul said; he makes no distinction regarding sin. The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). There is no distinction. Again, sin...

<eye roll> I'm not Roman Catholic, right. <chuckles> I'm not under the illusion that any sin, no matter how small, is somehow... okay... <chuckles> God says through Paul that "the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23). There...

Hmmm. Well, I say you are completely separating the New Covenant from the Old ~ and completely dismissing the Old, actually ~ which should not ~ and cannot ~ be done. You may remember what the writer of Hebrews says: "In speaking of a new covenant, He makes the first one obsolete. And what...

Yes. "...dead in the trespasses and sins in which we once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience⁠ ~ among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires...

(3 of 3) I agree, here, but a key word used by Paul is 'reckoning.' We should reckon ourselves ~ consider ourselves (ESV) ~ dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. That very word, 'reckon' or 'consider,' strongly implies that we are not yet absolutely dead to sin and alive to God in...

Hmmmm... well it's not a "get out of hell free card," for sure... <chuckles> It's an assurance ~ given to us by God, actually, through John here ~ that because we are born again and in Christ, when we do confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all...

We did inherit the sin nature from Adam, right; this is the natural human condition. Naturally, we are actually children of the devil (John 8:44). That’s terrible, right? However… <smile> …Yes, thanks be to God, in being born again of God, we are cleansed by the blood of Jesus, sure, so we are...

Hmmmm... So this is not an issue where the Catholic-Protestant "divide" has any relevance; there is a Biblical concept that we have to get regarding what we call the now and the not yet, and it applies to so many things. In other words, the following things are true now, but they are not yet...

Martin Luther was in no way advocating sin. But if God has set His affection on you... and caused you to be born again by the Spirit, and thus made you of Himself... you cannot do anything to make yourself unacceptable to God. Now can you still do unacceptable things? Certainly, and there are...

Well, here's the English Standard Version: "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death." Yes. there absolutely is a period, in the English Standard Version... and...

The problem is that some... many, I guess... just cannot separate this guarantee of our inheritance from some sort of license to sin. But Paul addresses this very thing in Romans 6, saying: "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your...

Then you... reject, I guess )... what Paul says in Romans 8... "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus... we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to...

Zechariah 14 depicts the end-times siege of Jerusalem, the Messiah’s victorious return, and the establishment of God’s holy kingdom. It should be viewed as the same event depicted in both Revelation 19:11-21 and Revelation 20:7-10. So the setting is after the millennium of Revelation 20:1-6...

Yes, but... and this is a bit nit-picky... I prefer the term Nunc-mill. The 'a' prefix means 'none,' or that there is no millennium (so it's a misnomer), whereas the 'nunc' prefix means 'now.' God's millennium is present. Since Pentecost and until God's Israel is completed (fullness of the...