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Yeah, I read it wrong. LOL

ROFL I read it completely WRONG! My bad. Whew! You had me going there!

You'll just SIN??? I'm outta here.

Paul was under the law when he was a Pharisee, just as the person depicted in Romans 7:14-23 is under the law. The laws are not written on the heart through the Spirit - YET! Only on his mind. Why is that so hard to see??? Both you and Behold believe it is about Paul as a Christian. For some...

What do you mean "no one has to." If you do not have Christ living inside you, you WILL struggle with sin. For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Only after being filled with the Spirit of Christ are you free from sin and death.

I memorized much of scripture in those first 30 years, but it was a completely sobering and horrifying realization that I had not been on the path toward salvation. What if I had died?

If you have to struggle to keep yourself from sinning, then you are not born again. Without the Spirit your nature is in constant opposition to the righteousness requirements of God. But when you receive the Spirit you are partaking of the divine nature of God and loves what God loves, and hates...

As long as its actually fact, and not just wishful thinking. As you know, I went to church for 30 years BEFORE I received the Spirit of God and was born again, making me dead to sin. At some point you know it, there is no mistaking that experience. So from then on just live it, because sin is no...

It means if we continue to walk in the Spirit and cultivate that nature, we won't grieve or quench the Spirit, but we are still capable of grieving or quenching the Spirit and why Paul gave commandment to not do that. Those that do quench the Spirit and stay that way are like a dog that returns...

The born again experience is MORE than us reckoning ourselves dead to sin as if nothing actually happened, like putting on a costume over filth. No! The filth is gone! so remember that!

You are quoting Romans 7! What you are not understanding in Romans 7 is that was the conclusion of Paul's teaching on those who were UNDER THE LAW of the Old Covenant, Romans 7:1. We are not under the law. Why? Because after receiving the SPIRIT, we now keep the righteous requirements of the...

Good conscience? How could they be? I didn't receive the Holy Spirit until after the third one.

I look at baptism as obedience. Whether anything mystical or supernatural happens I don't know. I've was baptized 3 times BEFORE being born again. But once I was born again, I felt the Spirit tell me that NOW I should be baptized, as if for the first time. So what were the other three?

The only one that I can think of actually requires be filled with the Holy Spirit first in order to be free from sin and have a good conscience. 1 Peter 3: 20 who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which...

I believe water baptism has to come after being born again also.

I read the whole context and Romans 7:13 to Romans 7:25 actually includes the climax verse of Romans 8:2. We are free from sin, so are no longer under the law. It is the sole purpose of Christ dying for us. Not to just take the consequences of sin from us, but to take the sin nature away from us...

The law came to mankind through Moses. Before the law, sin was not imputed to man. In what way have you been set free from the law of sin and death, but you still have sin in your members? I hope you don't mean that what you do that God would call sinful, is not imputed to you, so you are free...

Again, Paul is not 1300 years old. You are still letting present tense trick you, so is Romans 8:2 true or not? Is sin still dwelling in Paul, or is he been freed from sin dwelling in him?

Right, so can you see that 15-17 still has sin current, and not behind? 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 But now, it is no...

Be back later. I've got chores galore!