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Not saying ABOUT us....but TO us. We shouldn't assume ourselves into the narrative...unless we use humility and see ourselves as among those who need to be instructed and even rebuked. You are mixing things here. The verses in 2 Cor. are indeed about being regenerated in the Spirit. The verses...

I got that. :) But if we look at the way grace is being used...even that is way out in left field. There are people now who throw out God's word in the OT...because "it doesn't look like Jesus"....not realizing that Jesus IS the One speaking very often. So it is a crisis of reality...moving...

Agreed. What I see is a system that is looking for a religious (or theological) solution to a spiritual problem. The consequences of which are to build with materials that are unapproved of God (Think...wood hay and stubble, or else "untempered mortar").

LOL. Teaching people to err in one side or another shows how balance is not believed to be achievable by those who ...somehow...are in leadership positions. very sad indeed. :oops:

How do you know any politician is lying? Easy...his/her lips are moving. ;)

Those who are born again need desperately to be instructed in righteousness...not declare themselves righteous on the level of God. To declare such is going the wrong way...the way of God's wrath. Zeph. 2:3 Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek...

;) God imputes righteousness when people act righteousness, IN SPITE of any other failings they might have had. God imputes righteousness when He sees righteousness. That doesn't mean they never sin. There is no righteous person in the world that never sins. That is the biblical witness. But...

Is that what you are doing?

Good one Mike! :)

Do you believe that all have sinned? What is missing here is God's mercy. God forgives sin...He banishes sin so that a person's slate becomes clean. A baby is a wonderful creation. But left to themselves they would become filthy. So then diaper changes are needed. When the baby is clean and...

@marks said. Imputing IS to recognize something true or else is based on a religious lie...or as the bible calls it..fables. ;)

@marks said... That's religious reasoning foreign to the bible. Nobody is imputed circumcision. In the natural a knife is used....and there's actual blood. In the Spirit the circumcision is spiritual so that a new life and power are IMPARTED (not imputed). Sort of....People don't fulfill the...

@Wrangler said When we quote the bible...we are quoting the original idea of another person...in this case Paul. Mark misused the verse because he latched onto a word that he then used erroneously to match his own idea....which is not biblical. There's a LOT of that going on. How is that being...

LOL. You did exactly that by ignoring everything I posted...which I tried to do without having to correct you too much. I thought you would see what Paul was saying without need for further correction. But ...I tried... The "circumcision" is Israel. The "uncircumcision" is the Gentiles. Those...

This is true. The reason is to test us and train us for God's kingdom....and for rejection of those who don't measure up. No believer will see hell. The judgment of believers is not according to the condemnation of the world. The judgment of the house of God is akin to Yom Kippur. The...

Yes. :) God's kindness extends to empowring us by His Spirit. God is also the God of the Old Covenant. He is merciful....but also vengeful against those who trample His holiness. God will show mercy on the poor and humble of this world come judgment day. But He will go hard on the religious...

That's for sure. I would say most... This is about doers of the law being justified. What does it matter the state of the flesh if the law is being fulfilled? This speaks to the Gentiles who are not following the law of Moses but yet are justified by faith. But not just any faith...the faith...

Are you suggesting that the Bible was written in a "foreign" language? ;)

That's human grace. Not God's grace. We can do some things with human strength...but nothing on the eternal scale. Only through God's grace are we empowered in a way that makes us bear eternal fruit. Otherwise we are still playing in the puddles of human interactions.