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Our "own" death not we put ourselves to death. We surrender ourselves to God so that HE might do away with the power of the olf man through the power of the cross.

Sounds like whatever consulting adults agree on, that's ok! Mic 3:9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. Mic 3:10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. Mic 3:11 The heads...

It depends who the "our" in "our stead" is, doesn't it? As I have said, we are made PARTAKERS with Christ through our own conforming to His death. THEN the blood of Christ covers us from all sin. Otherwise we are left with a multitude of sinners who all claim to have a special sacrificial lamb...

This is simplistic and universalist. Not all men will be saved. And very few indeed will ever overcome. The way is narrow and the doorway difficult indeed to penetrate. Grace is the power from heaven that the dead in Christ walk in miraculously. It is not a general amnesty that saves sinners...

Grace is the keeping power of God. It can be "passive" or "active". Passive grace means God is watching out for us...protecting us from harm and leading us in the right way. Active grace is the walk in resurrection power where we are actually abiding in Christ. No sin is found there. We are...

The requirements for salvation in the OT and the NT are identical...clean hands and a pure heart...love for others and for God/.. What has changed is the means. Rather than digging with shovels we have been given bulldozers.

Christianity is not to be attempted as a lone ranger. We are born again into a Body or else we are a cancer cell. So unless we join in a Christian community, we will never become what the new birth has set us on a course for. The religious part is a part-time commitment to attending services...

He could be accused of being a disciple of Christ for this! Also if the power to raise the dead is no longer in existence than we are all doomed to rot in our tombs!

The sin nature is like a corrupted operating system that keeps crashing. The new nature in Christ is an upgrade that skypes God and the brethren and needs never crash at all! :)

Actually when we abide in Him we are in a new power. We are filled to overflowing with His love and we experience the presence of God in a continual way. As such we cannot but do the perfect will of God. Grace is the keeping power of God that attaches us to His holy presence at all times...

The power of the carnal nature leads one into sin. The power of life in Christ (grace) leads us into the perfect will of God so that we cannot sin. The gnostic heresy that John fought so hard to expose claims that we sin in the flesh but we are perfect in the Spirit...so that it is no longer...

You are confusing Paul and his lack of detail about the law.. So we who are walking by grace in the new nature are dead to the old law nature that once ruled in us. But the written law remains to show others that we in fact obey the law, Many have been confounded by Paul's way of describing...

There is nothing vicarious about Christ's experience. We are not spectators in His passion. We are made participants experientially through the Spirit. We also must die...and be reborn anew by the Spirit. Death first and then resurrection. Otherwise we are only speaking vanity and preaching...

Being indwelt by Paul doesn't have the same effect as being indwelt by Jesus Christ.

We will be judged according to what we have been given. So if you have seen the Lord, you will be judged more harshly. Are you saying that you think that God should radicalize His judgments?

God doesn't play games. In your scheme a person has either to be perfect or else be able to spell rumpelskilzten or something in order to get saved. The righteous requirements of the law are just so...they are righteous. God is also righteous. So any scheme that avoids MAKING the believer...

Paul was given authority to lay on hands to receive the grace of God. Paul was a dispenser of grace, as it were. Grace is an empowering of the believer in the inner man to walk as Jesus walked....at least in potential. Obedience is still necessary to ACTUALLY follow through. The gifts of the...

Under the law, the race was to actually become perfect through the requirements of the law....in one's own strength. Under grace, the race is to receive the power from heaven in order to become perfect and accomplish the requirements of the law. ...in the strength of Christ.

At what point is it safe for someone who chooses to believe to impute this righteousness on himself?

This is a ridiculous statement. Jesus suffered and died for others...not Himself. If He wanted to benefit He would have had someone else suffer for Him. But Jesus has no need of others. He is the Lord. But WE need Him. Without Him we are all dead in our sins. So to turn the tables on Jesus in...