oh! now i get it
i'm so glad you've hammered me with the LAW for 5 million posts. the power of SIN is THE LAW.
1 Corinthians 15:56
For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power
i finally managed to see the Gospel in one of them.
do i take this to mean you have been born from above?
if you'll just answer that single question, maybe we can get somewhere.
i know you don't want to, because the moment you do, if the answer is yes, you know your whole house of cards comes down.
[I am really not sure where you get the idea that I prefer to not answer your questions because I some how fear the collapse of my house of cards. In another thread I clearly explained my objection to the doctrine of Penal Substitution and I think they are very reasonable objections. Yet you would just offer a curt response and name call. Therefore there is no real purpose to have an exchange with you except perhaps to shine a light to others.
if you answer no, you're in a lot of trouble.
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what's this?
"whereby you are in fellowship with Him
again."
[The Prodigal Son returned to the Father. Little babies are not cut off from God. Willful transgression is what separates someone from God, not birth and a baby cannot commit transgression because they do not have the reasoning capacity to willfully suppress the light in them and go their own way.
Do you honestly believe that a little baby is wicked, evil and condemned? That a small child is depraved, wicked and morally depraved, whom Jesus said...
Mar 10:14 But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
Mar 10:15 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
God has made man upright but they seek out many inventions.
Ecc 7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Jesus clearly taught that the condemnation was in the rejection of the light. God has given all people the light of conscience, condemnation is wrought when that light is willfully suppressed to do evil.
You are not born dead and condemned and the Prodigal Son was not born in the pig pen. He left the father and spent his inheritance on wayward living and ended up in a mess.
before The Lord quickens a man, he is not in fellowship with Him. AT ALL.
he is dead in trespasses and sins, following after the prince of the power of air, hating God and loving his sin.
[You are not born dead in trespasses and sins, that is a doctrine which was introduced into Christian orthodoxy by Augustine of Hippo. Do your research and look it up. You can ignore history if you want to and cling the false teaching of Original Sin, that is up to you.
so why did you ADD again?
oh! it's because you're taking passages that first and virtually exclusively applied to Israel, and applying them to YOU.
of course YOU are. because this is always about YOU.
how sinless and obedient YOU are.
[You really despise a conditional salvation don't you? Yes your conduct matters and if in your mind that makes you THINK that "it is all about you" then so be it. That is a stronghold in your mind which it appears you are unwilling to examine.
NEVER is it about The King of Israel, The Suffering Servant, the Perfect Man, the Son of God - THE I AM.
never is it about Him. it can't be - because what He did really has nothing to do with you. His work is not applied to you at all.
He was just an example.
[Here you really reveal your heart in the way you completely misrepresent what write. I have written many times that the only means to be reconciled to the Father is through the blood of Jesus Christ for He was the propotiatory offering which God accepts whereby our past transgression is purged. Yet you will claim "what He did really has nothing to do with you at all. His work is not applied to you at all." What a blatant LIE about my writings.
Jesus was not JUST an example. I have never one time claimed He was JUST an example. He was most certainly an example though for He said...
Joh 13:15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
it's all about YOU.
You refuse to specifically address my writings and just lambast with rhetoric and make LYING accusations. The road to life is in the Spirit of life in Jesus Christ (Rom 8:2). That Spirit of life in Jesus Christ is the walk where we abide in Him, we are yielding to the Spirit of God, we are His sheep. We walk after the Spirit and no longer walk in the lusts of the flesh. Yet you IGNORE EVERYTHING I write on that and attack my writing with lying rhetoric.
Jesus Christ did not endure all things to cloak ongoing rebellion. Jesus Christ endured all things that we might LIVE IN HIM and thus worship God in spirit and in truth.