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The unregenerate who have not the Spirit of God are CONTROLLED by sinful nature and, therefore, CANNOT please God (Rom 8:8). The unregenerate are prisoners of or slaves to their sinful nature. (So much for "free" will!) Prisoners behind bars have only as much freedom to roam about as the...

Yes, it can be either/or. However, the unregenerate in the flesh are never in the Spirit; for the Holy Spirit is only given to God's covenant people. And the regenerate in the flesh will not remain in their carnality for long; for the children of God cannot live in sin, i.e. live a lifestyle...

So, who are those who are "in the flesh"? And who are those who are "not in the flesh"?

No, it is you who is illogical. Imputation is not a one-way street. It's NOT enough to have "all your sins" put under the blood of Jesus because God requires 100% righteousness to enter his glorious, holy kingdom. You need MORE than your sins forgiven. You need to become the very...

How else would he be able to judge the two groups? Besides, not even the wicked will suffer the same degree of punishment. God judges all according to their deeds. And as I argued recently on this thread, not all the unregenerate are as evil as they could be since God graciously restrains...

But God searches all hearts -- the righteous and wicked alike. What do you think God will be doing on Judgment Day when he judges both the righteous and the wicked?

Yes, just LIKE Adam was enticed by his own lust. In other words, like father, like son -- each and everyone us. We inherited his sin nature, which is why the sons of men are called evil in the bible! Moreover, because Adam was appointed by God to be mankind's Federal Head, his sin is imputed...

My faith isn't grounded in people's personal, subjective, unverifiable experiences. The Word of God is TRUTH, not our, personal subjective experiences. Moreover, how do you know that God wasn't already at work in your soul? You could have been in a state of regeneration already on your way to...

The passage above doesn't teach that "some unregenerate people hunger and thirst...". You read a ton of your own personal presuppositions into bible passages. The unregenerate Hate God, hate his Christ, hate godly wisdom, hate godly knowledge. Anyone who hungers and thirsts for righteousness...

Oh...So God imputed your sins unto Christ, but not Chris's righteousness unto you? But you need to be JUSTIFIED like Abraham was (see Romans 4). Being indwelt by the Holy Spirit is NOT sufficient for your salvation because all Christians are still sinners. No one lives in this life a perfect...

I repented a long time ago when I found out that my own righteousness was as "filthy rags (literally a woman's menstrual rag!), cf. Isa 64:6). When I stand before my Creator and Redeemer, I know whose righteousness I will plead. And it won't be my own! You say you are not convinced? Well...

Well, friend, maybe it's time for you to hit the floor on your knees and cry out to God to show his truth to you. As stated a little while ago, when you stand before God, you will either plead Christ's righteousness or your own. And my bible tells me that no man is inherently righteous. So...

I provided three passages as evidence. I can explain it to you but I can't make you understand it. But I will tell you the same thing I just told PT. If you don't believe that it is totally on Christ's merit and his imputed righteousness that qualifies you to enter the kingdom of God, then...

Well...I have shown you the passages but I can't make you understand them. It's an analogical argument in Rom 5:12ff, as it is also in 1Cor 15. And it's crystal clear from the analogy that all of Adam's descendants were imputed his sin; and all of God's elect were imputed Christ's...

You don't know that. That is your personal presupposition that you read into the passage. The fact that Jesus called the Samaritan "Good" instead of evil (the way Jesus often spoke of his generation) speaks to a believer, not an unbeliever. The Good Samaritan had the fourth kind of Good Soil...

It works the same way as God imputing his elect's sins unto Christ. 1 Peter 2:24 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. NIV Also see Rom 5:17-19. Additionally, Christ's righteousness...

I cited passages. Why don't you try reading them? And what precisely is a "covenant exchange"? And which covenant was "exchanged"?

He was a God-fearing believer. How else? God's grace was working in his heart to the extent that he did what was counter-intuitive: He actually loved his enemy! (Jews and Samaritans didn't get along very well, in case you didn't know that.)

Of course it's scriptural. Imputation is clearly taught in Romans 5 and 1Cor 15. The passage you quote is not pertinent to imputation. The passage is talking about personal sins, not imputed sin -- "the soul that [actually] sinneth. Everyone will be judged on the basis of their own personal...

See Rom 5:15, 18-19; 1Cor 15: 21-22. Again, if Adam's sin is not imputed to us by divine decree than neither is the Last Adam's righteousness imputed to any of us, nor any of our sins imputed to Him. Adam is a type of Christ, and the typology would be virtually destroyed if we reject the...