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Luther likened justification to a dunghill covered by a fresh covering of snow. So when a little heat is applied the whole thing stinks to high heaven. :blink: Actually Jesus Christ INFUSES us with His righteousness through the new birth. He abides in us. When we learn to surrender to Christ...

What you are saying is that the Spirit profits nothing. Is the flesh more powerful than God? We are made perfect by the Spirit so that we walk as Jesus walked. Did Jesus sin? Did Jesus have a human body? Jesus perfected the walk in THIS kind of body on THIS earth with THE SAME temptations as...

Or His permissiveness!

I think we will be surprised at how few are in the Bride of Christ compared with all those who claim to love Him (yet live in unfaithfulness)

This is very unfortunate and really a sign of the times. How many really have faith? How many have really entered into Christ? As for the necessity of a death to sin.. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. 1Co 6:19 What? know ye not that your...

A very important lesson. Humility must be ever before us. The greater our exploits the more we need to seek obscurity. It is good that you grasp one thing and also not let go of the other; for the one who fears God comes forth with both of them. Eccl. 7:18

Mixing vegetables and fruit will make a mess of any salad!

Richard, do you deny that the grace of God is sufficient to stop you from sinning?

Repetitive argumentation? It is better to look more closely at what the rest of the bible says to get a clearer picture of the word of God. I am espousing walking in the Spirit according to the divine power of grace not a self-help effort! What makes you not able to see this?

We are being made perfect by the Spirit by the indwelling Spirit. The flesh profits nothing. What men are too weak to do CHRIST does IN them by faith.

Gal 2:17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. Gal 2:18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. Gal 2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law...

No, we overcome through the inner man in Christ. Jesus lives INSIDE and wins IN us. We are sinful before because we are in bondage and darkness to the fallen nature. We do not attain sinlessness...Christ is already sinless! So when He lives through us we cannot sin. As long as we abide in...

Actually, Richard, the victory on the cross of Christ is the victory over the sin nature that kept us in prison and in darkness. Jesus gives us that victory and sets us free from that which once alienated us from God. This victory is real! We overcome through Christ in us....the hope of glory...

The truth is foolishness to the carnal man. I receive your remarks as proof that you do not understand the gospel, but rather have turned aside to fables. The carnal man can indeed seek to believe and trust in a salvation scheme...but this is precisely what Jesus is warning us about when He...

A schizophrenic will claim it is the voices that are evil...and that he cannot help himself. This is Richard's argument for the gospel...we become schizophrenics by believing we are in the Spirit. So we sin but it isn't really us sinning...we are powerless in our spirits to stop sinning. So the...

This is precisely the heresy that John was trying to correct in John1. The flesh is the temple of the Holy Spirit for those who are truly born from above. John doesn't say...his spirit doesn't sin...it says...a man born of the Spirit cannot sin. Your unbelief forces you to do the mental...

You actually teach the denial of the power of Christ. Let not many of us become teachers... You teach that grace is a get into heaven free card. You teach sin in the flesh, but salvation of the spirit because you trust in a religious formula that has Jesus dying for your constant...

So Richard you are ignoring this.. what do you make of this verse... 1Jn 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. Without mocking WHAT DOES JOHN MEAN HERE? Jn 3:7 Little children, let no man...

It isn't so much Catholic doctrine (nothwithstanding the Marian heresy) that is wrong, but Catholic practice.

You very curiously omit the Lord part of the relationship! Of course to you obedience is works so Jesus cannot be your Lord...