Understanding is a key:
I'll need to rephrase that; understanding is THE key to unlock what you are seeing and understanding in scripture. It is by your understanding that the Lord leads you in scripture. So your knowledge of scripture becomes your key for seeing into scripture, your knowledge of scripture. It is how you are dealt with as well. Our father deals with me based on my understanding. Why is that? Because we are all created different, we have a different back ground, different cultures, from different parts of the world, and so on. So it is by your understanding he leads and handles you. He cannot deal with me like he deals with you because we are to different, he handles his children like any good parent. He handles His children by who they are and by their creation. Glory!
If you follow along with Paul you start to see you have no life of your own, for lack of a better term. For the born again now in your body is one life and the life is Christ.
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. - John 14:6
You cannot find another life in scripture, at least not in what Paul has to say. You have an old life that was crucified, you had a death life you were born with and had received and handed down from Adam you see, but it was the only life you had. You did not have a good life, bad life, and a earth life, and no other kind of life but death-sin-life-spirit. You were not the sin unto death, which is the sin Adam received. You were not the evil one, there is only one evil one, the murderer from the beginning. You had to partake of that life, you had no choice because we are created to be dependent on our nature-spirit. You were held responsible for your sinning by the sin nature but that was not you, you are not sin nature. You are created in the image and likeness of God and only partook of the nature. That was not you, you did only the bidding of that life, the sin unto death life that kills, steals, and destroys was your life. It's like science calling human behavior "human nature." I can see why they would do that because humans have a nature that they act on, but you will not find a human nature in scripture. You can only find death nature, sin nature, Satan nature, separated nature, Adam receiving a nature-spirit-life-sin nature when he fell ( Genesis 3:15 ), but you will be hard pressed to find a single human being with a human nature like science reports. That is how quick science and your scripture reading can get turned around.
You can go anywhere in scripture that talks about nature and have a tendency to agree with science, but just because the word of God brings out very clearly the nature's (two distinct nature's in scripture and neither one is human nature) does not prove science is right about a human nature. It is the opposite in scripture, it shows the human being with a nature but that nature is not his own it is hereditary from a progenitor (Adam is not the progenitor of the sin nature). You have to have a father to get nature. There must be a father involved for a nature to be involved. The nature is in the seed-again Genesis 3:15, as well as the seed in other places.
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. - Genesis 3:15.
16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. - Galatians 3:16.
11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. - 1 John 5:11-12.
8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. - 1 John 3:8-9.
16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death. - 1 John 5:16-17.
I'll need to rephrase that; understanding is THE key to unlock what you are seeing and understanding in scripture. It is by your understanding that the Lord leads you in scripture. So your knowledge of scripture becomes your key for seeing into scripture, your knowledge of scripture. It is how you are dealt with as well. Our father deals with me based on my understanding. Why is that? Because we are all created different, we have a different back ground, different cultures, from different parts of the world, and so on. So it is by your understanding he leads and handles you. He cannot deal with me like he deals with you because we are to different, he handles his children like any good parent. He handles His children by who they are and by their creation. Glory!
If you follow along with Paul you start to see you have no life of your own, for lack of a better term. For the born again now in your body is one life and the life is Christ.
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. - John 14:6
You cannot find another life in scripture, at least not in what Paul has to say. You have an old life that was crucified, you had a death life you were born with and had received and handed down from Adam you see, but it was the only life you had. You did not have a good life, bad life, and a earth life, and no other kind of life but death-sin-life-spirit. You were not the sin unto death, which is the sin Adam received. You were not the evil one, there is only one evil one, the murderer from the beginning. You had to partake of that life, you had no choice because we are created to be dependent on our nature-spirit. You were held responsible for your sinning by the sin nature but that was not you, you are not sin nature. You are created in the image and likeness of God and only partook of the nature. That was not you, you did only the bidding of that life, the sin unto death life that kills, steals, and destroys was your life. It's like science calling human behavior "human nature." I can see why they would do that because humans have a nature that they act on, but you will not find a human nature in scripture. You can only find death nature, sin nature, Satan nature, separated nature, Adam receiving a nature-spirit-life-sin nature when he fell ( Genesis 3:15 ), but you will be hard pressed to find a single human being with a human nature like science reports. That is how quick science and your scripture reading can get turned around.
You can go anywhere in scripture that talks about nature and have a tendency to agree with science, but just because the word of God brings out very clearly the nature's (two distinct nature's in scripture and neither one is human nature) does not prove science is right about a human nature. It is the opposite in scripture, it shows the human being with a nature but that nature is not his own it is hereditary from a progenitor (Adam is not the progenitor of the sin nature). You have to have a father to get nature. There must be a father involved for a nature to be involved. The nature is in the seed-again Genesis 3:15, as well as the seed in other places.
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. - Genesis 3:15.
16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. - Galatians 3:16.
11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. - 1 John 5:11-12.
8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. - 1 John 3:8-9.
16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death. - 1 John 5:16-17.
