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Why do you assume that dying vegetation is not naturally part of their cycle of life?

Yes, using many verses from Scripture CONFIRMS a correct understanding! It's taking a verse here and there out of context to try to prove an assumed doctrine that proves error.

Do you believe when Gentiles become Christians they are no longer identified by their country of origin? It seems silly for me to say, but when a Gentile becomes a Christian, I don't have to read "Gentile Christian" explicitly to understand they are believers in Christ. Do you believe you've...

I was in agreement until you say the righteousness of God through faith was ever promised to ethnic Israel. The promise of righteousness of God through faith is only for those of ethnic Israel of faith. That's why Paul writes the hardness to them is only in part, because those of faith are not...

There are none righteous, no not one! If none are righteous, and none seek for God, why would they want forgiveness of sin they do not acknowledge? God chooses according to whom He desires. I have read that mankind should not seek to answer why God chooses whom He chooses and does not choose...

There was no death because the tree of life was there for them to partake of and live forever. The tree of life is symbolic of abiding always in God for life. When the tree of life was blocked that access to life through God was gone. It was in compassion for mankind that God blocked the way...

Every living breathing creature is a living soul. That means having a physical body endowed with the breath of life (spirit). What separates mankind from all other living creatures is that man may also possess the eternal life giving Spirit of Christ, if they have been born again.

As I've already said, death is the consequence for sin. Adam and Eve had access to the tree of life before they disobeyed God and brought death through sin into God's creation.

I think we're pretty much of the same thinking. What Scripture seems to be saying is that we enter into the Kingdom of God when we are born again. Of course we don't enter it physically, but spiritually, through the Spirit of Christ in us. That IMO is depicting the Kingdom of God in heaven...

I agree, but I'm wondering if using both is making a distinction between the spiritual Kingdom of heaven and the physical Kingdom of God to come to the new earth?

Physical death is not the result of sin? Then why does mankind physically die? You do understand how spiritual death leads to physical death in the lake of fire, which is the "second death"? The wages of sin is DEATH of both body and spirit IOW the complete living soul. That's why Adam and...

Have you not read of the righteousness through faith imputed to father Abraham? Was he not justified (declared righteous) when he believed by grace through faith (the gift of God) when he heard and believed the Gospel? James 2:23 (KJV) And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham...

I know this is what you want the Bible to tell us. But sadly the Bible does not agree with your assessment. If it were true that we are not dead in trespasses and sins until we commit trespasses and sins, why do even those who have never sinned died and are dying every single day? I'm...

Faith Strong's Greek Dictionary 4102. πίστις pistis (pístis) Search for G4102 in KJVSL; in KJV. πίστις pístis, pis'-tis from G3982; persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for...

Yes, I agree! We heed the voice of evil as long as we remain in unbelief, of the spirit of the first Adam. Why are we no different than the first Adam before we are born again of His Spirit? We follow after the same image we identify with. In unbelief that spirit image, being dead in...

Is there a difference?

Why do we find so much confusion over this three letter word 'all'? When Scripture uses the word all to identify those who are blessed with eternal life through belief in Christ it almost universally uses 'all' to prove there is in Christ no longer any distinction between Jew & Gentile...

Faith is of God's grace, and believing naturally follows whosoever has received faith to believe. Faith is a noun, and belief/believing is a verb. The thing 'faith' that is according to God's grace, and the work of believing that we also do according to grace is that which has been ordained to...

How did Abraham believe God? He heard the Word preached, the Gospel of Christ and by grace through faith he believed God. Galatians 3:8 (KJV) And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all...

Of course not! We aren't blamed for Adam's sins. But we are of the seed of Adam, natural, physical, of the earth humankind. As the seed of our father Adam, we now, since the fall, possess his likeness and image naturally.