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<chuckles> The Father is spirit (John 4:24). And of course the Holy Spirit is spirit. Jesus is the same in substance as and one with the Father and the Holy Spirit, but He is not spirit in the same way as they are. <sigh> ...so many misunderstandings of "spirit," which, like many other words...

Well, yes... and no. We have it now, and in full later. Now... and not yet. No force necessary... <chuckles> We already "concede to Him and His rule," and quite willingly. It's both. We have been saved, and we are being saved... both are true. Well, yes, but it is yet future at the same...

Agree to here, at least... <smile> ...and finishing that last thing: His Word.... called Jesus, Who is the (only) Son of the Father... <smile> Christ is the personification of all these things, yes. But His personhood is His and His alone. Um, let me clarify that: The Father's perfectly...

Hmmm... well, in the same breath as having just said, "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, Who has given them to Me, is greater than all, and no one is able to...

What Paul says in Romans 7 is very sobering, for sure, but also very encouraging, and nobody's skipping over anything. It's just that a couple of the things Paul said in chapters 6 and 8 were directly relevant to the discussion here. Episkopos, we are all fallen, and, in Paul's words in Romans...

Well... hmmm... we are freed from the dominion of sin over us. As Paul says in Romans 6, as a result of being born again of the Spirit of God, sin has no dominion over us, since we are not under law but under grace... and in Romans 8, no longer under condemnation because we are in Christ Jesus...

Hmmm... well, that Jesus is the... "vehicle"... through Whom we are saved, that through Him and through Him only do we have access to the Father, that no one can come to the Father but through Him. Jesus says, "No one can come to Me unless the Father Who sent Me draws Him. And I will raise him...

It's a common occurrence on this board... <smile> To that, though, very often, posters broach certain topics without meaning to, and often without even realizing it. And that's been the case here, to some extent. Sometimes, though... some times... people come to realize they're... "stepping...

(2 0f 2) This is a conflation. Even we Christians who are alive in body now are... have been... born again, and so are saved and have eternal life... "...God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive...

Yes, I know... that's quite clear. And... it's okay. <smile> God's Israel consists of people of all ethnicities. All whom God calls, Jew and Gentile; we are all one in Christ Jesus, Who, as I said, is God's Israel: You know of Hosea, I'm quite sure. God says through Hosea, "When Israel...

"The nations"... Biblical, yes, but such a misunderstood Scriptural thing/concept... Grace and peace to you, David.

Hmmmm... Well I agree... except for... "earthly." <smile> See above. I mean we'll all be on this planet, but... <smile> No, we have peace now, in Christ Jesus, Who is our peace. But as we all can see, the world is far from totally peaceful, and this will remain the case even to the end of...

Not merely future. Past, present, and future. Right, and this is the spiritual war ~ which is not "spiritual" in the sense that it is not real ~ going on all around us... right now. Has been, is, and will continue, until Jesus returns. Not all people, no. But "the nations," in the true...

Why are we speaking as if it is yet future? Because it is the present reality... <smile> As Paul says, "...we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in...

Agreed, certainly. <smile> Grace and peace to you.

Of course not; I don't have any propensity toward those... atrociously sinful things. Some do, though... Even so, though, all of us Christians have what we might call besetting sins, sins that we are particularly inclined towards, that we can't seem to shed. In some sense like an addiction...

Nope. There is nothing anywhere that says what these supposed sins unto death... or sins not unto death... are. Nothing that says ~ implicitly or explicitly ~ anywhere in God's Word that says (regarding any number of sins) "this/these sin/sins is/are unto death and this/these sin/sins is/are...

Ah, so God doesn't really mean what He says. Hm. <smile> Nope. Sin came into the world through one man ~ Adam, of course ~ and death through sin. That's not what Paul said; he makes no distinction regarding sin. The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). There is no distinction. Again, sin...

<eye roll> I'm not Roman Catholic, right. <chuckles> I'm not under the illusion that any sin, no matter how small, is somehow... okay... <chuckles> God says through Paul that "the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23). There...

Hmmm. Well, I say you are completely separating the New Covenant from the Old ~ and completely dismissing the Old, actually ~ which should not ~ and cannot ~ be done. You may remember what the writer of Hebrews says: "In speaking of a new covenant, He makes the first one obsolete. And what...