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It would stand to reason if we no longer possessed our old nature we would no longer possess sin and therefore we would no longer sin. To reason that we no longer sin conflicts with the whole of Scripture, esp. with Paul's entire discourse of Romans 7 which clearly evidences the co-existence...

I understand why you believe this considering the way 2 Peter 1:4 states it and this is an important issue which I think should be understood. I do not see a problem with believing His nature is our new nature because going further than this may not be necessary. I do not believe our new nature...

Hi JB! Good to see your reply and hope you have been doing ok!! Your correct in that it is He Himself in us. I do not believe being partakers of the Divine nature is the same as "having His divine nature". To me, partaking of His nature does not mean possessing it but being beneficiaries of it...

Nice post A.B. and I agree with all of it, esp. understanding the idea, as you pointed out, not to be who He is but in the theme of as He is because, "As He is, so are we in this world" (1 John 4:17). I like John Gill's commentary here and its worth the lengthiness: "As He is, so are we"; as...

Axehead, I appreciate you stating your post the way you did and I understand what you mean by us not having our own will if we were like puppets. The crux of my post is that as long as we're in these vessels we will do some wrong but not in the next life. The puppet analogy only involved us not...

It's not doing like Christ did. It's not us doing at all, but Christ doing everything in and by us!! Are the works we are doing originating from us or from God? It's not meant to be in this life, but the ideal situation is never doing anything God doesn't want us to do and doing everything He...

The Christian life is not living by what Christ can do but by what He has already done. There is nothing we do not already possess in order to ever increasingly be conformed (Rom 8:29--by the Spirit through the Cross) to the Christ-life. “Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ...

Truth is found only by those who have a compelling desire for Christ to live it in them. Many have desired to only know truth and attempt to live it by themselves, but to them it is not revealed. " . . . which things the angels desire to look into" (1 Pet 1:12). " . . . it is given unto you to...

Faithful, I wanted to point out that Christ actually was good in Himself, from birth to ascension and unlike us, needed not to be born again or regenerated, because even though He took on a corruptible physical body, His spiritual body was the Word of God, which "became flesh and dwelt among...

I agree Cliff, just because people love one another doesn't confirm they love Christ, if it's just a natural or "phileō" love. The love Christ is referring to is agapaō love, which is not a natural love but a super natural love and requires God, not to enable us to love as He loves but to yield...

The meaning of Christ-like can vary but I see it to mean like or as Christ, by attempting to live as He lived (1 John 2:6). After all, man was created in God's image and after His likeness: God's image meaning that our physical body to look like His spiritual body with head, arms, etc.; His...

Web, Jesus said the world--"all", will know we're His by our love for one another. Their is no greater witness or evidence! Right?

Hi Faithful and God's blessings to your Family! It helps to realize that we cannot live the Christ-life but Christ Himself must live His life in and by us--through the Spirit, as you have noted. "No longer I who live, but Christ lives in me" (Gal 5:20; NKJ).

I agree Strat and the most effective witness is a loving witness! "By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another" (John 13:35). If we lack an effective witness, the Lord uses somebody else.

I agree Strat and for everyone's sake, we shouldn't attack what we disagree with, but always respond with a neighborly-love attitude, because we should be desiring to "speak the truth in love". (Eph 4:15).

Sorry if my posts seemed insensitive and truly upset you Mark but I was referring to humorous, as to the way Web presented the math (as I stated), not as to the facts. I do not think an exuberant response is necessary to Web's or Whitestone's posts, mostly because the entire mathematical...

Funny Whitestone and Hello! God's blessing to your Family and God be blessed!!

Please excuse me for re-posting this from my thread "The Sinner" but I considered it a potential use here: I do not believe the Scriptural definition for sinner is merely “one who sins”, because the Christian isn’t referred to as a sinner in Scripture. The only passage that appears to indicate...

Web, Pretty impressive and very humorous, concerning the way you presented the math.

3-14. LIGHT AND SHADOW "Before I was afflicted l went astray: but now have I kept Thy word" (Psalm 119:67) The head-knowledge of Spirit-taught study becomes the heart-knowledge of Spirit-led life, via Romans 8:28 and 29. How good it is to have a sovereign Father controlling all! "You will...