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The last part is not correct...? Jesus Himself is NOT that eternal life...?

And praise Him again! He gives me victory over all my enemies!

Jesus said if any man wants to be His disciple he must pick up his cross and follow. So does this mean that women are not allowed to be disciples/followers? It plainly says "man."

The gospel according to Jesus Christ is that men can be made right with God and have eternal life and that Jesus Himself IS that eternal life.

Yes! He did not die so that we could continue to not be lawabiding. He did not die so that we could be saved while continuing to be what we were. He did not die so that we could have abundant life way off in the future!

Your question was what is the gospel? The gospel is that we can be made right with God and can have eternal life and that this life is in His Son.

You have said it!! :) This is why I gave up and told Him if I was to be good, He would have to do it. Cease all striving and know that I am God.

My heart is with those who, like me, get stuck in the foolish galatians trap of thinking they can run without the power that will make it possible.

We don't have so much concern if a baby keeps falling. We have concern if he never gets back up and continues to learn to walk and then run.

We all stumble. The point is not to never stumble. The point is to get back up and start racing. A verse says that a righteous man falls many times and gets back up many times.

If we abide in Him we do not sin. I don't look for perfection. I still have my moments. I look for a...consistency. I look for abiding for longer and longer periods of time so that I don't sin. It's a race. I look for increasing endurance.

And if this is a command rather than a promise (if you love Me, you will obey my commands), then how do you propose to obey even just the one to not murder by having anger in your heart?

Ahh...that did not work for me and I don't recommend it. The harder I tried as best I could to be good, to stop murdering, to stop having fits of hurt pride at how I was treated - the worse it got for me. I struggled to be good for many years. I never could be good. Eventually someone bumped...

Correct. That is not in dispute. What is in dispute is whether eternal damnation is a state of living. And whether men come from the womb with eternal life in them.

So that all of the sinners aren't "no more."

The gospel tells us how we can be made right with God and have eternal life. It's main message is that this eternal life is in the Son.

I'm really glad that there aren't that many places where the translation from greek to English creates a legitimate problem of such magnitude. I'm also really glad for the scholars. Because those few translational problem areas are real doozy's as far as doctrinal issues go.

Magenta, this is what you posted in the other thread last night. It is stupendous work and I appreciate the work you were willing to put into this for us.

The other thing is that we know we have murdered someone if we have anger in our heart at them without cause. That "without cause" part is tricky. If I have ever been a jerk to anyone, then someone is an atrocious jerk to me at some point, do I have cause for my anger? How so if I have done the...

King David said, at various times, things like: do not take Your Spirit from me. He also killed a man in a sneaky way in order to have his wife. The other thing we need to remember is that committing adultery can happen in the heart and mind without anything outward even being done. It's what...