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All these threads about faith and works. yet it seems no one understands what the word dead means? Why is that? Why have we given Satan the power over us to take a word, which means one thing, and make it means something not even close to the original meaning?
The bible says because we are in Adam We are dead, It says because of sin we are dead. It says the penalty of sin is death.
If someone is dead, they are dead. Their heart has stopped beating, they have stopped breathing. They have to be BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE.
person who is dead can not perform CPR on themselves. They can not inject lifesaving medicine into themselves, They can not do ANYTHING to bring themselves back to life.
They must be RESUSCITATED, They must be GIVEN the life-giving medicine by someone who has the power to save them. They must be REGENERATED (that which is dead, brought back to life)
Yet I keep hearing things like,
"you going to tell me if a savior threw you a life preserver and you were saved, you did not save yourself?
"God did his part. now you need to do your part and go get baptized in water"
"Faith and works go hand in hand, you can not be saved by faith alone."
are they serious?
I am dead. how am I going to grab onto the life preserver? How am I going to get up and walk to the baptismal, the river or where ever I need to go to be baptized. I AM DEAD. I can not walk, crawl or roll anyplace. I AM DEAD.
As far as faith goes. If it is DEAD it is lifeless. It is powerless. It can not do anything, It needs to be regenerated to give it life. Otherwise it is useless. It can do nothing (it can't save you, let alone do any work) yet they say this dead faith is a real faith??
And finally. I have this question.
Can anyone show me any person who was dead. regenerated back to life by lifesaving medical attention, and given a new life. And came to a point in their life where they no longer believed the person who saved them had that power to do so?
Can any one show me how anyone, who died because they lied cheated and steeled their whole lives, They drank themselves to death, They acknowledged the sin and filth they had in their lives, which caused their death, GO BACK AND DO THOSE THINGS AGAIN?
Are people really that naive that they would think dead does not mean dead, and people who died because of sin would return to that sin after they were brought back to life and given a second chance?
The bible says because we are in Adam We are dead, It says because of sin we are dead. It says the penalty of sin is death.
If someone is dead, they are dead. Their heart has stopped beating, they have stopped breathing. They have to be BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE.
person who is dead can not perform CPR on themselves. They can not inject lifesaving medicine into themselves, They can not do ANYTHING to bring themselves back to life.
They must be RESUSCITATED, They must be GIVEN the life-giving medicine by someone who has the power to save them. They must be REGENERATED (that which is dead, brought back to life)
Yet I keep hearing things like,
"you going to tell me if a savior threw you a life preserver and you were saved, you did not save yourself?
"God did his part. now you need to do your part and go get baptized in water"
"Faith and works go hand in hand, you can not be saved by faith alone."
are they serious?
I am dead. how am I going to grab onto the life preserver? How am I going to get up and walk to the baptismal, the river or where ever I need to go to be baptized. I AM DEAD. I can not walk, crawl or roll anyplace. I AM DEAD.
As far as faith goes. If it is DEAD it is lifeless. It is powerless. It can not do anything, It needs to be regenerated to give it life. Otherwise it is useless. It can do nothing (it can't save you, let alone do any work) yet they say this dead faith is a real faith??
And finally. I have this question.
Can anyone show me any person who was dead. regenerated back to life by lifesaving medical attention, and given a new life. And came to a point in their life where they no longer believed the person who saved them had that power to do so?
Can any one show me how anyone, who died because they lied cheated and steeled their whole lives, They drank themselves to death, They acknowledged the sin and filth they had in their lives, which caused their death, GO BACK AND DO THOSE THINGS AGAIN?
Are people really that naive that they would think dead does not mean dead, and people who died because of sin would return to that sin after they were brought back to life and given a second chance?
.............. BUT there are TWO DEATHS spoken of in Scripture are there not?
