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That is before Christ and His indwelling Spirit. Read on.. Romans 8:2 for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ has made (Paul) FREE of the law of sin and death." We are free from sin, and thus the law that was to show us our sin. Ron, it all has to do with our flesh, but that is not our...

You shall love your neighbor. But the Ten Commandments only says not to murder them, nothing about hate. What Romans is saying is that when you love, which is the New Covenant commandment, you are not breaking the Ten Commandments, only going deeper to the source.

Ron, it is much closer to home than you think. They are doctrines that try to undo the words of Jesus. Jesus says He takes away our sin. DoD says we will always sin while in these bodies. Which do you believe? I finally had to leave all denominations and pray to God to teach me His Word and...

Tong, What the Ten Commandments were based on, but could not fulfill because they didn't go deeper than the outside surface was Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself. That is the first reason. The laws of LOVE are the eternal laws of...

It was done away and the better royal law was written on our hearts by the SPIRIT, making us born again and sinless. The Spirit also plants the fruit of the Spirit in us and the rest of our life is a process of maturing those fruit to PERFECTION.

The Ten Commandments is the only thing called the Covenant. Exodus 34:28. There were many ceremonial rituals that were also done away, but there were many laws that still stand about bestiality, homosexuality, virginity for marriage, remarriage after divorce, marrying close kindred, etc.

It was the Ten Commandments that was the covenant. But the Old Testament is good to clarify things. For instance, do you believe in remarriage after divorce?

Are you assuming we will "fall to it"? I don't. Why sin when you don't have to?

Of course not; we're siblings in Christ. I just always want to see things from God's point of view. Major sin is major sin in God's eyes, and sexual sin is major, whether homosexual or heterosexual.

We were talking about the old laws. They were our schoolmaster and the point was how does God view sin. When you see the severity, you can appreciate what Christ did in taking away the desire to break even those old laws.

Grace is the divine power of God. He gives us His power to not sin. Seeing as we will sin because of the sin nature we were born with, we cannot be good enough on our own to be holy, and without holiness, no man shall see God. So God does it for us for those who acknowledge this weakness to sin...

If God sovereignly writes only those being chosen in the Book of Life, then why would He change His mind? So much for OSAS. Rev. 3:5 He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and...

When my mother used to call me when she was alive, I always recognized her voice. She didn't have to tell me who she was. I knew her voice from years of hearing it.

I'm talking about purity. I'm not sure what work you mean. Ministry?

A man and a woman who commit adultery together were also put to death. I praise God that I'm straight. But I do know gays, both men and women who are Christians who abstain and are just as pure as you are. And who knows, maybe even purer in character. You are sounding like the parable of the...

yes, and you can also seem to brag about a sin that you are confessing to, with no remorse. My ex seemed to want me to feel sorry for HIM when he confessed to having raped one of the members of his home church who was a virgin that he pastored. There are some sick in the head fake Christians out...

Yes, works is trying to keep God's laws with only our own willpower, instead of the divine power of God. That is what was being portrayed in Romans 7:14-23 - knowing the law, but keeping them in your own weakness. The Spirit not only frees us from the sin nature that caused us to sin, but the...

I wasn't saved for the first 30 years of going to church. All I'm saying is that being heterosexual as you seemed to brag about doesn't prevent us from sinning our heads off. LOL I was no better in the eyes of God than a homosexual, except that my desires were normal, but still very carnal, and...

Thanks, Tong. I'll get back to you tomorrow. Going to bed now.

It is favor. It is only unmerited favor when Jesus died for us while we were YET sinners. "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new" How did we get in Christ? Through the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And how did we...