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Again Epi, our new man was made after the image of God. Is He righteous or not? Did we receive His (Christ's) Spirit or not?

Nonsense. It is the righteousness of Christ in us because it is HIS Spirit (nature) within us, within our new man. Christ IN us, the hope of glory.

I hear you brother. Don't you worry, I wasn't giving "him" a thumb's up, only the specific comment he initially made.

Our new man is made after the image of He who created it. That is how we are made the righteousness of God. He is looking at our new man, not the old. But you have avoided addressing this.

I don't disagree with everything you are saying here in principle, however, spiritual fornication/whoredom can manifest in a lot of ways, do you not think so? It is essentially trying to serve God and Baal at the same time (halting between two opinions as Elijah said). Having two masters, God...

You've added to your post here since I first read it. And I can't agree with it, so I took back my thumb's up. Oh my, how is it possible that something that is stated in the bible could be false? God is not a man that He would lie. I dont see how mere men would have had the spiritual...

I agree with this. And resisting not the evil can be a way of submitting oneself to God's will, if that is what one is doing in fact.

I think the important thing is to realize the potential IS there and that we should stay in the game trying to reach that goal. Running the race and playing the game so as to try and WIN it.

Seems that some like to interpret all scripture through the lens of OSAS, if I'm not mistaken...? That will cause one to miss the point of the scripture in many places, nullifying it. To one's detriment.

If we remember that the mixed wine is associated with whoredom in that passage, it will reveal what it is talking about. What is spiritual whoredom...?. Running after other lovers while being married to a Husband. That is the mixture.

That sounds like a rather subjective definition to me. I wonder whether sin/iniquity is anything which falls short of the glory of God.

I take it that Jesus is talking on one level particularly to those individuals about those particular sins that brought their particular trouble upon them, in those cases. But on another level, that this is a also a word which applies to everyone in a general sense. I believe sinning no more...

God creates both good and evil. However, it is self-evident that man and devil did the deed........but why are you ignoring the will and sovereignty of God in the sacrifice that HE chose because it was necessary to fulfill the Law that HE instituted and to "put an end to sin"? Isa 53:10 Yet it...

No, that is only how He was numbered with the transgressors by men, even though innocent. He died the death of a condemned criminal. Isa 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the Lord who...

His goal is to undermine the truth that believers have been made the righteousness of God through faith, and that His righteousness is imputed to us without works. What I and others here see scripture as saying is that we HAVE been made the righteousness of God, so therefore we must endeavour...

If by no deal you mean you wouldn't agree with and become yoked with such a church, then amen. Though we shouldn't try to force anyone to receive the truth. Jesus told His disciples they were not to exercise authority upon the people like pagans (the world) does. It's sometimes so easy to...

I thought the conversation was about how Jesus became sin for us. Who laid the sins and iniquities upon the scapegoat?.....it was done by the priests at the express command of the LORD. Yes He was sacrificed by the wicked for the wicked as it was meant and ORDAINED BY GOD to be........both Jew...

Amen. These are the "merchants of Babylon", making merchandise of the people. Trading in false doctrines and souls of men....for their own gain.

It's not a wrong way of thinking.........it's the very foundation from which the rest of the building must be built upon. Without it, the rest of the building can't be built. It's not ideology but spiritual truth. You seem unable to grasp spiritual things. The promise made to Israel is like...

Yes, and really this has always been in the heart of fallen man, and manifests in various degrees at various times through out history. It's the "good" part of that Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and that's why it's so deceptive.....it "seemeth right to man". It's a counterfeit of the...