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Where and how is, "sin" acknowledged in CONVICTION?

Galatians 3:

21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterward be revealed.

24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster."

Romans 7:

7 "What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid.
Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law:

for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet."

HOLY SPIRIT WROUGHT CONVICTION of personal sin, through the Word of God, and The Gift of REPENTANCE and FAITH is The New Birth.

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In applying The "Free Will" process of Duty Faith/ Easy "Believism"/ Decisionism, a dead soul just "gives their consent" to something, without acknowledgment of their sin, by CONVICTION of the Word of God, being Granted REPENTANCE from their sin debt against God, or Regenerated by the Holy Spirit?

Is this expressing that when a person "changes" from living in sin, they have raised THEMSELVES from the Biblically called, "dead", Spiritually?

@RighteousnessTemperance&

How do you think you "came to be a Christian?"

Can you share a testimony of salvation?

 

KYR, I enjoy reading your observations, interpretations, opinions as much as anyone’s (including my own ) and feel you have done some considerable, worthwhile investigation into the scriptures. I very much liked RC Sproul (still do), even if I couldn’t adopt his Calvinism.

The faith I’m referring to is only at that initial confrontation where one becomes a believer. The ensuing transformation changes everything. While I don’t see that faith as a work at all, God credits Christ’s righteousness to us at that point. He even becomes our righteousness. See 1 Corinthians 1:30f.

“It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.’” (NIV)

 

I think I'm getting somewhere close to:

when I see:

Ephesians 2:12 "And you hath he quickened,
who were dead in trespasses and sins;"

changed to:
"And you hath he quickened,
who were living dead in trespasses and sins;"

living dead

Physically, mentally, in the flesh, not Born Again, "not alive in Christ", as you said, I could "hear" and "communicate with God", if Jesus, Personally, came walking to me, "in the cool of the day"

That's Him, Jesus: "Then the man and his wife heard the sound
of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day,"

However, we know He doesn't speak to us that way, today.

He uses The Bible and the Holy Spirit.

And I am going to say that we can not hear Him, in Salvation, until He first talks to us and gives the lost soul acknowledgment of their sin, by CONVICTION of the Word of God, being Granted REPENTANCE from their sin debt against God and Regenerated by the Holy Spirit.

No ability to "hear", that we "could well understand" when only physically, mentally, in the flesh, not Born Again, "not alive in Christ".

I what way. Living dead.

Question: Why is it that God has to initiate the "Quickening"?

Ephesians 2:12 "And you hath he quickened,
who were dead in trespasses and sins;"

That is a good question, isn't it?

Does God have to initiate Quickening, (Making Alive), from their "living dead"?


I believe the answer is what you said, when you posted:

"Living dead" includes an addition and is clearly not the meaning of, "not alive in Christ".

I say they were, "not alive in Christ", because they were Spiritually dead, to Christ.

Then, we would have, "
Ephesians 2:12 "And you hath he (Spiritually) quickened,
who were (Spiritually) dead in trespasses and sins;"

I am going to go with the lost, physically, mentally, in the flesh, not Born Again, "not alive in Christ", being Spiritually dead, as the Bible Teaching.

 

Address that to me in a new thread and I'll answer. But not here. It is too off topic.

 

Enough already. Though I said to take up the matter in another thread and I'd respond, I see it’s already too late for that.

That post is enough for me to ban you from further replies, except perhaps for some harsh rebukes, where necessary. Your non-sequiturs and missed points were bad enough. But you have now earned a most unenviable reputation.

Your post does what my posts most emphatically did not do, namely insert words into scripture itself and attribute that to mine.

Since you imply you saw it in reference to my post, that appears to make you a false witness of the most egregious sort. Looks like we’re done discussing.

 

I consider that to be questioning my salvation, especially given the context, and am flagging it as such.

 

Spiritual dead "faith" is a work and a lost soul has no "Free Will" that is not dead, also.

Free-Will dead faith or "belief" or a decision or commitment card or praying the sinners prayer, making Jesus your Lord and even "believe on the Lord", will still be a dead work, if the lost soul is not brought to acknowledgment of their sin, by CONVICTION of the Word of God, being Granted REPENTANCE from their sin debt against God and Regenerated by the Holy Spirit.

How do you think "church buildings" got unregenerate congregations, sometimes called "liberals"?

That is a concern to me.

The topic is, "is Faith a work?"

 

If you don't want to share you testimony and Brag on God's Son, that's O.K. by me.

Here's you new thread:

What do you guys think of Author Pinks handling of "Duty Faith"?

 

Without the Holy Spirit, we can’t work at faith… too many distractions… women, drink, drugs, gambling, careers, politics, cars etc. all leading to our ignoring the Lord. It’s God that does the work…. Cause if He didn’t do it then we wouldn’t and you can take that to da bank brother.

 

Quite the entrepreneur Elder Craig was indeed. What do you expect from the Welsh! The recipe ain’t scotch but it ain’t bad neither

 

It's not questioning your salvation.
It's you responding because answering honestly may prove your free-will theory to be wrong. It may actually cause you to admit that it was God, 100%, who caused you to repent and believe.

 

Can you point to one other person, besides Jesus, who has perfectly done the law so as to be justified by keeping it perfectly?

 

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Is that really what you mean? Yes or no?

 

Where I come from its called the walk of faith!... Brother Glen

1 Corinthians 11: 1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

 

What I actually said was this:
It's not questioning your salvation.
It's you responding because answering honestly may prove your free-will theory to be wrong. It may actually cause you to admit that it was God, 100%, who caused you to repent and believe.

Yes, I really mean that it was God, 100%, who caused you to repent and believe.