I always get tickled at how you guys try so hard to entrap and misrepresent what we actually say. And then you change your line of questioning by suggesting something we did not say by saying "So you are saying...." LOL But we never said what you suggest or imply, that is very evil indeed. This whole line of questioning is evil because it is meant to entrap, even by twisting our words and trying to misrepresent our views. Even your wording above has now changed to those who are now
trying to overcome the flesh, instead of those who are just walking in the flesh, or living to the flesh and to sin. As there is a difference between trying to overcome sin and turning from your wicked ways, and those who just turn back to wickedness from previously walking in righteousness.
But so you don't twist my words no more I will post scripture as to what my theology teaches (though it's not my own)
Romans 8:13
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye
through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body,
ye shall live.
Ezekiel 18:24
But when the righteous
turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth
iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the
wicked man doeth,
shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed,
and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
Ezekiel 33:12
Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his
transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that
he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able
to live for his righteousness in the day that he
sinneth.
Ezekiel 33:19
But if the
wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is
lawful and right,
he shall live thereby.
I'm done with your little entrapment game.