The 10th Commandment

[Episkopos]

The battle of spirit and flesh continues until death.

Most people lose.

Only until we are crucified with Christ. Then we walk in resurrection life and power. That's the gospel.

 

[Joseph77]

Only until we are crucified with Christ. Then we walk in resurrection life and power. That's the gospel.

I thought earlier post you posted the battle is all of our life.

Definitely the battle of spirit and flesh continues in believers only, until death.

In unbelievers, they are sons of disobedience - there is no battle at all - they serve the enemy fully, as do many in most churches.

 

[2 Chr. 34:19]

The battle of spirit and flesh continues until death.

Most people lose.

So do I, but press on to win the prize anyway

 

[DPMartin]

Old Testament righteousness dealt with behaviour...outward behaviour. A person could think evil thoughts and could covet all day long, but as long as he didn't act on his baser impulses he was seen as righteous. So a person could be righteous under the law and still be a sinner inwardly. As in...the outside of the vessel is clean, but the inside is corrupt.

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no, wrong wrong wrong, who gave the Ten Commandments to Moses? therefore who's requirements are they?

the Lord God is the one who requires therefore the Lord God also sees. God is the witness that verifies, to Himself of that which meats His requirements expressed in His Word, therefore covenant. it stupid to think that the Lord never requires men to seek His approval.

 

[Joseph77]

So do I, but press on to win the prize anyway

The victory is already won for us in Christ Jesus, if we continue to trust the Father and endure to the end as He Says.

 

[Joseph77]

The angels are capable of sex and marriage, but they do not engage in sex and marriage. The angels that did choose sex and marriage were expelled from Heaven;

They neither marry nor are given in marriage.
They never took human women as wives.
Those old heresies are popular today in some circles, started long ago by those who did not remain in Jesus.

 

[Joseph77]

Just as God Says, not as those opposed to His Word , contrary to Him say.
"They" are men , who took wives, as written - no contradiction.
Each created after its own kind.
Angels are not created as men, nor men as angels, and angels do not reproduce at all, and never possible as something else either.

Gen. 6:2 "and they took of them wives of all which they chose."

(as a heresy though, with other false teachings, that is popular one and widespread)

 

[quietthinker]

Paul admitted his own struggle with sin...even after being born again. Being born again does not make you sin-free.

Struggling with sin does not mean submitting to it.

 

[Joseph77]

But the 10th commandment is unique in that it is not an outward commandment but an inward one.

Compare then if convenient the inward one of no adultery as Jesus said in the New Testament.

 

[Joseph77]

It was men, who took wives (got married/ lived with) and had children with women.
The later false stories, contrdicting Scripture / became tradition to use , for whatever purpose, and deceives many today.

In God's Whole Creation, "Reproducing after their own kind" eliminates the possibility totally of the fables/ myths being truth.

Other myths/ fables/ false teachings are also attributed to those same sources and to those who carry on the same false teachings today - it is not as if an isolated error, no.

 

[Joseph77]

False .
See for reference "false knowledge" or is it "what is falsely called knowledge" (worldly opposed to God totally) , in Scripture.

I do not remember what book it is in.... (in the Bible)

 

[Episkopos]

You are very confident, Joseph. I recognize that my beliefs are always open to being in error. I am not God. In fact, as a human, I assume that anything I believe is most likely untrue in some manner. The scientific attitude requires that I be skeptical, and that I acknowledge that even scientific theories are most likely not completely true. As a believer, I hope I am humble enough to acknowledge that my understanding is limited. Nevertheless, DNA evidence is usually accurate.

I think the word presumptuous fits here. It is very unfortunate that puppet masters control the religious crowds with false assurances and assumptions that God loves rich Westerners unconditionally whereas people who are poor in other countries He gives over to judgment. When it is discovered that the very opposite is true and that rich Westerners will be judged very hard...there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Hopefully that will happen before there is no recourse to change the outcome.