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It was God's express will and plan to have Jesus bruised and make Him an offering for sin according to Is. 53. I would underline where it says Jesus was handed over by "God's set purpose and foreknowledge" there in that Acts 2 verse above. In Gethsemane Jesus said to the Father, "Nevertheless...

I like to think of our being made the righteousness of God as being a heavenly reality. God accepted the proxy (Jesus) AS IF it were us.....it was legally and spiritually binding every bit as much as if it really were us receiving God's wrath on the cross...our old man is judged and dead and we...

Agree....except that us making Jesus sin is another false accusation of Epi's. We know very well that Jesus was never literally sinful....He just stood in for us sinners by proxy as it were. And if He could "positionally" be made sin who knew no sin, then we can "positionally" be made the...

I pray that real believers will start to realize some things and jump out of the political pot.........it's on a low and slow boil. They are unknowingly uniting (unequally yoked) through politics with all the nominal Christians who dont know the Lord and in danger of slowly getting cooked.

Amen. Human emotional self-righteous love is not the same animal as the love of God which is of His Spirit, and not of the flesh of man. I pray people will learn to discern and understand the difference.

Yes, sadly. Some say he was on the verge of converting to Catholicism too. (If so maybe it was better for him from an eternal perspective to have left this world early, as tragic as it was.) Very troubling and even makes me angry how the church is leading young people astray from the true...

Amen. We sure do need to judge in the sense of discerning and testing according to the word of God....it is a necessary spiritual weapon in our arsenal. And that isn't the same thing at all as judging in the sense of condemning.

And sadly many do worse than watch. They are as lost as the rest of the unbelieving world and are in need of the Messiah/Christ just as much.

We who know the Lord with faith not of our own have had a close encounter with God, with more to follow. That's what you don't seem to get. You equate genuine believers with unbelieving Jews under the Law and unredeemed Catholics. You are denying the power of what we received at the first...

No but with pregnancy the baby is in process of being formed.

Sure, but they still needed Jesus to descend into hades and preach the gospel to them. I expect they were part of the first resurrection, when the tombs were opened at Jesus' resurrection. "They without us would not be made perfect".

What you are calling religious imagination is heavenly reality. This is the reason why we are to pray that God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven. But you need ears to hear it. Kind of like, Satan has already been defeated, yet he still goes around trying to steal, kill and destroy...

Well, let's hear you expound on the new man and old man Epi, how it fits into your theology. How I read and receive it, is that it IS reality. It is the reality from which the impossible becomes possible. Without this reality, nothing that you speak of would be possible. All things HAVE...

Amen, spot on brother. And I believe this is the meaning of where James says Abraham's FAITH wrought with his works. His works proceeded from faith, not from a vacuum or from self-righteousness.

Sure, no problem Epi - after you kindly address the point I was making about our old man having been crucified with Christ and our new man having been made in the image of Christ.

You are not addressing the point of the scriptures I posted. And just for the record I don't judge anyone as being beyond God's mercy, unless He lets me know.....because I don't know on whom He will have mercy. There have been one or two in the past who He commanded me to stop praying for...

Meekness is a fruit of the SPIRIT Epi. Those on whom He wishes to have mercy, He draws to Christ and saves them. There is no other way to be saved.

Until Jesus arrived on the scene and was crucified and rose again, those who were true "God-fearers" would have been part of the OT saints of whom it is said, "they would not be made perfect without us". After He came on the scene it became necessary to embrace His gospel to be saved. Even...

Some Jews and some Greeks......is not universal. And only God knows how many of those had the kind of faith that pleases Him, like Abraham and other OT saints.

No it isn't. If you are equating the fear of idols and demons with the fear of the Lord, that is blasphemous. Even believers can be lacking the fear of the Lord, like Israel of old forgot the fear of the Lord in her apostasy, so even just from that alone it cannot be universal.