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Guy, answer Matthew 18.

OF COURSE it applies to me--if and when I am not walking in faith, I am not walking in freedom, but doing what I do not agree with, so I am condemned for sin as the verse says! If you are doing what you disagree with, aren't you NOT FREE, which is also called being ENSLAVED? Doesn't Paul say...

When a person is convinced they ought to do one thing, but they find that they do another, what is the cause? Isn't it that their body is telling them what to do? Peter says "desires which wage war against your mind". If we are doing things that our thoughts accuse us for doing, yes, that is not...

The plan of God is that people obey the Law of Faith--believe in the Name of God's Son and then walk in faith. If people do not obey the Law of Faith, doing these two things, they are not justified. I've cited Romans 14:23 to prove this. You went to "if we are unfaithful He is faithful". I...

So, there is discontinuity between the two? How is the servant forgiven? Is it a different method than can be found in Pauline writings?

No, you're misunderstanding me. We're not under Law for righteousness, we're under Grace for righteousness.

So, how is the servant forgiven all his debts? Is it not by the righteousness of faith that is described as "blessed is the man whose sins God will not remember" (Ro 4:6-8)?

1. I already explained what Mathew 18 has to do with it : your example was that a child doesn't unbecome a part of his family, but I prove that that idea is falsified by Scripture. 2. People who infract the law of their minds are slaves of sin (following their bodies), and they are condemned and...

Matthew 18 demonstrates being granted faith isn't a static state--by faith, he is forgiven, but when the faith is removed, his righteousness of faith forgotten, his debts return, so he's no different than an unbeliever.

1. You are not answering Matthew 18. 2. Well, all I can do is tell you that I know I am condemned when I don't walk in faith, but I can't force you to believe me.

This was styled as a "reply" to Matthew 18, but you didn't even address the problem of Matthew 18.

More than that, when I do not believe God's love for me, and am not reflecting that love to others (it shows in particulars like envying, hating, etc), I can know I am not in faith, though, what is more important is the next step : believe God loves and forgives me.

Yes, because you spoke about a child never unbecoming part of his family due to his behavior--that is OSAS.

You can project your belief on to me ("I do not believe you consider yourself condemned"), but that doesn't actually reveal what I believe.

I would have to disagree, since Matthew 18 says the servant had been forgiven all his debt, but, because of his behavior, afterward, his debt returned. Being that forgiveness is by the righteousness of faith (Ro 4:6-8), this would mean that he had already been a believer, yet, His having been a...

This touches upon another aspect I have already addressed, but which, I have to assume, you did not think was important to answer : God can forget not only sin but also righteousness (Ez 18:24), and, in the New Testament, "faith is counted as righteousness", so people can be "forgotten"...

I just hold to Scripture--the one who does not walk in faith is condemned. I can't change Scripture.

When we walk in faith/love, we are proclaiming "God", not ourselves. Remember Paul says man in his unrighteousness suppresses the truth about God... thus Paul rhetorically asks, "If by my lie God's truth abounds [aforementioned : "that You may be vindicated when You judge me"]) to His glory...

No, and when I don't, walk in faith, I am breaking the Law of Faith, and I must trust God is faithful and righteous to forgive me of my sins. I do not claim to be spiritually mature!

How is this a disagreement? LOL Yes, if you deny Him He will deny you. God not only forgets sin but also forgets righteousness--or else, the fact that the unforgiving servant had been forgiven all his sin (indicating he possessed the righteousness of faith, described as "blessed is the man whose...