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Let me flip the question on you, how is man in unbelief "dead in trespasses and sins"? Why does Paul tell the living they were once dead when they have never died?

And you are doing it again, saying faith is believing in God but you still refuse to show how men who do not believe, having no faith muster up this faith/belief while spiritually dead in trespasses and sins? If believing is having faith in Christ for eternal life why can't you biblically prove it?

This is a point at which I shall simply agree to disagree with how you have arrived at your opinions. One point, you can disagree with mankind being both flesh and spirit, what you term "dualism" but in doing so you deny what is written.

I agree! That's why I said we must understand what it means to be dead in trespasses and sins. Paul was not speaking to corpses, but to the living. Yet he says were dead in trespasses and sins. That doesn't mean the physical life-giving spirit within every man is not alive. It simply means...

The problem as I see it is that those who like to label Christians antisemites is because they lack knowledge for "what sayeth the Scriptures." When Scripture is used to prove that the semitic Jews of Israel, since the coming of Christ to earth, are no more, and no less blessed by God than any...

I don't disagree with you, but the problem is that mankind morally collapsed from the beginning. I too believe things will become worse and worse especially for those who profess faith in Christ, as the day of His return approaches. And that we should indeed keep our focus on things above and...

I believe that man has been deceived for so long into believing that obtaining eternal life is by man's free will, that when they hear of God's Sovereignty over mankind, and that eternal life is according to the will of God and not the will of man, they get angry because they cannot refute the...

The gifts are given to those members of the body of Christ (believers) according to God's grace and in proportion to the believers work of faith. Faith that every believer must be given to believe in Christ for eternal life comes as fruit from His Spirit within. Without the Spirit giving us...

Exactly! When we hear the Word of God (the Gospel) that we might believe the Gospel through faith, the work of God that is given according to God's grace. But not all who hear the Word have faith, why not if it is of man and not from God? Why after hearing the Word did Israel remain in...

When we read the verses you quote in context we find Paul is speaking to believers having received a measure of faith. He is not saying that those in unbelief can have faith for eternal life apart from the Holy Spirit. Romans 12:1-3 (KJV) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of...

But what you repeatedly fail to show is where this faith comes from? What is your understanding of we being DEAD in our sins being "in Him" and "with Him"? Did we put off the body of sins of the flesh by circumcising our hearts, or through the circumcision of Christ made without hands...

Faith in God which gives us the ability to believe Him is necessary for man to be eternally saved. When man is spiritually dead in trespasses and sins they have no ability to come to saving faith in Christ. Why? Because they have not the Spirit of God to testify to their spirit, which is why...

Sure. The context doesn't speak of physical death that every human is destined to. When Paul says we were dead in trespasses and sins, he is speaking of our being spiritually dead, not that we would physically die one day.

How many times must you be shown we have no faith to be born again until we believe, and we will never believe in Christ apart from the power of His Spirit in us.

Please explain a human spirit body? While clothed in human flesh, Christ indicates He was not a spirit body as you assume, because a spirit does not have flesh and bones as He had. Luke 24:36-39 (KJV) And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them...

Christ forgave our sin when He gave His life to atone for sin. Water gets us wet, and by submitting to the ordinance of water baptism believers acknowledge they are no longer of this world, and have been separated from the world. We received the Holy Spirit when we were born again. The...

I agree, faith is not the gift. Salvation is the gift of eternal life for all who believe in Christ. How do those who are spiritually dead in trespasses and sins believe in Christ....wait for it, by grace through faith (((the gift of God))) that no man may boast. The faith we receive to...

Yes, I understand what you think it means. I don't agree the context agrees with your pov.

Colossians 2:10-12 (KJV) And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in baptism, wherein...

Not exactly! Faith comes as the gift of salvation which is by grace through faith! Faith to believe Christ is not something mankind in unbelief possesses, which is why we must be born again.