Yes, now I recall you bringing that up.
Sorry for the "book"...I am making up for 2,000 years of unbelief and false doctrine and speaking against what most have wrongly believed.
Your point and question regarding what I said about being born again, is why I went on about the timelessness of the events of God. It is because they could not bear the whole truth so long ago. Nonetheless, there are two sides to the salvation event: the side of the believer coming to full and complete belief and surrender (with no remaining reservations or doubts), and God's eternal side, where everything written comes to fruition for the one being saved. This is why Jesus referred to it as "
entering in", because, even though the believer may remain in the world and the clock and calendar continue to run, it is not so in the kingdom. Which is why the saying that "
God is the same yesterday, today, and forever" is most accurately state by God rather as "
I am", with no reference to time at all as in the explanation that includes yesterday, etc.; and why it is also correct to say, "
now is the time of salvation", meaning that any moment one can "
enter in" to the eternity of God.
So then, the confusion on this point and this new phenomena since Pentecost, is that when "
it is no longer they who live, but Christ who lives in them", it has not been fully understood what is meant by being "
alive and remaining" in the world as Paul explained. And if, or since it is not the person, but Christ, why would there appear to be ongoing sin? Most have simply not believed the full biblical account and process of what occurs regarding salvation, as it is written. Even now, when Paul said that the
twinkling of an eye moment comes transforming one from being of the world to not being of the world, saying "
but each one in his own order" rather than at some mass, end of the world event...and I repeat it, saying that is the moment spoken of--it is still not believed. Which makes it not unlike Jesus saying
you must eat of His flesh and drink His blood, and for which many walked away and did not follow Him any longer.
But what should be believed if one is not to turn and walk away from the full biblical account and explanation, is that "
Christ in you" was foreshadowed by Him between His resurrection and His ascension, where He was in the flesh specifically carrying your sin, just as He retained the marks of sin in His own flesh during that time. This is what John referred to about the "
spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh." Which speaks of the born again spirit, rather than those who have not yet been born of the spirit of God.
The difficulty in understanding that is, although it is not you who lives during that time between your moment of salvation and the earthly passing of your flesh body, is that He does not sin, even though you likely will. This is because, even though that moment has come and gone, "
It is finished" in Him, but not in you, even though the price is fully paid. But unless we are willing to say we have not received Him and that He is not in us and us not in Him, then we cannot but believe that these times of being "
in Christ" are the times of us
reigning with Him until the end. In which case we are to believe that our times are and were all in that moment according to the events as God and therefore without time--because we are no longer of the world, rather than believing as the world would count out the days remaining. In which case--that is according to the world, to God our salvation takes a u turn and stops just shy of the intersection of entering into the eternity of God, a maneuver which indeed could result in the loss of salvation--because we would have effectively turned back as those who walked away, meaning we are not actually following, but have stopped following. And for some...that becomes a way of life until the end...when it need not be so.
