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It's absolutely true that we are born again of the Spirit, and I apologize if I'm confusing you Rita. I will just try to mention an allegory in case it helps with this, but if it confuses you just ignore it. We can say a loaf of bread is made from flour.....which is absolutely true. But at...

Amen. As long as we don't believe and assume the written word itself is a letter that kills. It's only a dead letter if we approach and use it that way, if we approach it apart from the Holy Spirit who gives life to it. Our minds need renewing as well as our hearts....the scriptures help to...

ok, think I hear what you're saying......and we need to be careful to understand these things to be allegories or a manner of speaking, rather than to be taken literally. How I think of it is that our old man is our old self and the new man is our new self. (All things become new, the old has...

All born again believers have received the word of God....whether it was through reading/hearing the written word, or through preaching of the word, or by direct revelation of God.......it's all the engrafted Word of the Lord that we received when we came to faith. Christ in us. The Word made...

It isn't a competition of one versus the other. We need BOTH the word and the Spirit. Bible says two or three witnesses are required to establish the truth sister. The Spirit and the word agree. The written word is a witness because it testifies of Christ....it is the Living word written...

Faith to believe what....? The word of the gospel. The engrafted word....that is the imperishable seed, sister. The word. Sown/engrafted in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.

There's a difference between what has been imputed to us and what we have actually apprehended isn't there though....? In order to grow and take more ground in our life and heart we need to acknowledge and confess our sins as sins......in order to not only be forgiven of whatever sin we are...

I don't agree that the theology you are particularly referring to need to be deconstructed.........but its the old man nature of ours that needs to be shown for what it is and deconstructed, torn down, stripped away isn't it? Disappointed you weren't talking about that, but continue to...

I think you've misconstrued me.....I'm not at all trying to condone sin or saying it is impossible to stop "committing" sin.....that is not what I'm trying to do here. With God all things are possible, and we need to be working out our salvation in sincerity with the Lord. But I seemed to have...

I wasn't at all addressing whether sins will occur and continue to be committed or not....just pointing out that we "have" sin in our flesh/carnal nature.....those inward sins that you mentioned. Selfishness exists/resides in our old man....yet that doesn't mean we will necessarily behave...

I have trouble with that verse where it says whosever is born of God...literally CANNOT sin...? That just doesn't bear out in reality, we all know we have erred since coming to faith in some ways or another, and have been sinned against by fellow believers. Why else would we be told to bear...

In that specific verse John mentions about "having" sin, not committing sin.....having sin is not the same thing as committing sin. Paul said in Rom 7 that in him, in his flesh, dwells no good thing. Also written in Rom 8 that the body is dead because of sin. Sin/iniquity is in our flesh...

Yes, I agree we need the whole counsel of God and see scripture in light of other scriptures. And amen, I certainly agree Paul was speaking to and about believers in Romans 7.....and I don't think he was intending to single himself out in particular when he refers to "I" but just in a way...

Amen. John is saying we do have sin. ( Our new man doesn't, but it is our old man/carnal flesh nature that has sin.) Looks to me that he is saying part of being in the light means we acknowledge and confess that.

Any way you can put it in a nutshell for me? lol. Anyhow that is from my own reading of it. I believe it is how God chooses to see the believer through grace. He is being gracious in not counting/reckoning our sins against us in the sense that He is not condemning us, because Jesus already...

I dont' know that I can parse all this sister, I'll try to look at it again tomorrow morning when I'm fresher, but what comes to mind right now is that Paul wrote "if I do that I don't want to do, it is no more I who sin but sin living in me". Jesus was the only man who was without sin...

I agree with you that the way up is down, so to speak. But, yes we are working and building upward........but from the foundation (cornerstone which is Christ Himself) that has been built and set into our being like a solid Rock. The foundation and the rest of the building are all of ONE. Jhn...

I dont disagree with a lot of what you are saying in your post. But this above is quite a claim. Especially when scripture itself says to not go beyond what is written. We need the Lord and His word, both. Please dont' anyone go around teaching that the scriptures are somehow inferior to...

I hear what you are saying brother. We are to glorify God and Christ, not any servant of His. Like as angels refuse to be worshiped, Paul would be the first to insist we should make much of Jesus, not of Paul. What does anyone have that we didnt' receive? (from the Lord) We have nothing of...

If Christ is in us then we are in Him. But we need to learn and realize the difference between what has been put under His feet (everything) and what we do not yet see put under Him in our life and heart.....that begins to happen with a believer who has passed through the "honeymoon" phase and...