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I think you need to understand that there is no condemnation in Christ. Condemnation is of the devil. If your conscience condemns you for having sinned, then acknowledge it, receive the cleansing of Christ's unending forgiveness and move on not listening to more condemnation on the matter There...

But he was unregenerate because Christ hadn't died yet and the spirit hadn't been poured out. So you're explanation verifies what I said earlier that unregenerate people can and do learn of the father through the holy spirit. They have no other way of knowing because there dwells nothing in the...

In a blood covenant between two parties everything that belongs to one party becomes the other's and vice versa. So that is the exchange I'm referring to. When the new covenant was cut we received Christ's righteousness and he received the debt for our sins. Christ in us, us in Christ. In...

So explain what imputed sin is

You keep saying this without any scriptural support. Scripture in fact contradicts it. And you ignore my claim that Christ's righteousness was imputed by covenant exchange.

That's avoiding the point. How did the Samaritan know to do good?

So what you're saying is that God holds mankind responsible for Adam's sin. Not scriptural The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the...

What does this mean? How did the Samaritan in Luke 10:30 not perform his deed of compassion perfectly? He acted from the heart. Jesus' said he did the will of God, ie, loved his neighbor as his self.

How then do men learn of the father before coming to faith in Christ?

Adam's sin was not imputed to his offspring; his offspring inherited his spiritually dead nature. Having been ejected from God's presence, without perfect communion with God they lacked perfect knowledge, and without perfect knowledge, they sinned. In this way the effect of Adam's disobedience...

You avoided the point I was making. Christ's righteousness was imputed to us via blood covenant exchange, ie, we received his righteousness and he received our sins. Adam had no way to impute his sin to us. Sin isn't a substance that gets incorporated into DNA or flesh

This is simply not true. Unregens can hear the voice of God as clearly as we can. How can a person who doesn't believe in Christ hear and learn of the father if it is not the holy spirit teaching him? No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up...

Revelation IMO spans nearly 2 millennia (3 actually). It starts with Christ receiving, unsealing and setting in motion God's plan for the ages, which then proceeds to unfold until the end. The expression "must soon take place" can also be interpreted as "must happen swiftly", which can either be...

I'm sure Paul was telling Timothy to no longer drink only water, but to drink a little wine in order to calm his nervousness and put his mind at ease. Sounds like alcohol to me Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. 1 Timothy 5:23...

How is an act of compassion different when done by the unregenerate or when done by a saint? God is glorified whenever his spirit is obeyed. Do you believe the unregenerate cannot obey the holy spirit?

Christ's righteousness is imputed to us via covenant, as our sins were imputed to him. There is no such covenant with Adam so non sequitur

Oh dear, I'm catching a whiff of calvignosticism. Do you believe an unregenerate person can do good works, and by that I mean works that God is well pleased with?

Simply believing doesn't save a person. It is written that with the heart one believes into righteousness, and with the mouth acknowledgement is made into salvation For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Romans 10:10

I take issue with the the expression God the father, God the son, God the spirit. Apart from God the father these terms are not found in scripture. Rather we see the son of God and the spirit of God. IMO there should be a comma between God and the father, ie, God, the father, because the term...

IMO It really doesn't matter what's in the cup. Jesus said as often as you drink this cup, not as often as you drink this wine. The ancients used wine because they didn't have refrigeration. It's all symbolic anyway, a way to remember and express our faith in the covenant. The bread and cup were...