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Hmm, I didn't say "awaken". Also, fallen man should have no standard by which to be convicted except his own, right? So how can fallen man be convicted if he has already determined, within himself, to be the arbiter of his own truth? Fallen man naturally and actively resists God. I made the...

This seems like just a copy-paste from a previous post. My question was "So, by whose example did Paul, Peter, and John judge and correct the conduct of the saints under their care... the one's they wrote to?"

I did not say all fallen men who are convicted respond to God only that they are convicted. For most, it will simply bolster their current level of resistance. You will have to explain how conviction remains "external". How does "external" vs "internal" conviction work? Also, @HeIsHere was the...

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I don't think we disagree on the main parts, only on it's application. The natural man includes his body, mind and his soul. These are opposed to God. While unredeemed, his spirit is dead: unable to affect his life. You almost got it: referencing the breath of life. God is spirit and so He...

If God would have taken Adam's spirit from him when he sinned, Adam's body would have died at that moment. It was Adam's spirit, given by God, that made him "a living being" and kept life in his body until he died at 930 years old. Can you explain what you understand by "quickened"?

There is a distinction between the soul of man and the spirit of man. It requires wisdom to know the difference because they are often addressed using the same written word. The spirit is Adam was breathed into him by God: a deposit from God to man. The unseen part of a man includes the spirit...

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So, by whose example did Paul, Peter, and John judge and correct the conduct of the saints under their care... the one's they wrote to?

The spirit of man cannot be corrupted because it is part of God. Substantively, it did not change in the fall. When man resists the Holy Spirit, man's spirit remains disconnected from God and unable to inform the man. That is why, upon the man's death, his spirit returns to God who gave it. God...

God's spirit in man cannot be corrupted. It can only be disconnected from God who gave it. Indeed, all men start in this condition save, perhaps, John the Baptist, who leaped in in mother's belly when the advent of Christ was announced.

No. It was a covenant between a Father and a son. The only rule was "Do what I tell you". This was the same covenant between Jesus and God the Father. Jesus "only did what He saw the Father doing". As the last Adam, Jesus was able to secure man;s place with God for all who receive Him.

Yes. He did so by putting in man a deposit of His Spirit, just like Adam. Without this spirit man cannot be a living being.

Was Adam a mistake? Of course not.

I see that the death of man, either physically or willfully, returns man’s spirit to God who gave it. If we die while we yet live, and our spirit is quickened by the Holy Spirit, we become part of the Christ: the One who bridges both the eternal and temporal. So we may live in both time and...

Yes. Man may also "draw back". "Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him."

The redemption of the spirit is required not because it lacks anything but, rather, it is disconnected to from the Spirit of God. This is accomplished by resisting the Spirit of God because that's the connection: spirit to Spirit. Man's spirit is quickened when man (to illustrate a point) "gets...

No. Only that judgement and a command to judge righteously is in the scriptures. These are things for the mature.

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The body of man has a brain. The soul of man has a mind. And the spirit of man has a mind. You described a carnal mind, one that is focused on the flesh. “For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it...