Recent content by Tenchi

I'm not sure you have any idea what my first point was... This opinion is encouraged by how you've talked past my point. ??? Is this supposed to serve as an argument for your view? It's just a raw assertion without any reasoned justification. As such, it doesn't accomplish anything but offer...

This statement of the obvious seems to purposefully speak past my point. How does one remain objective in one's process of interpretation? "As we can manage" seems to me to be making room for personal opinion (from which often arises error). I don't know about "authentic" but the correct...

How do you do this? Especially in light of Romans 7:14-24, Galatians 5:17, "I just do it" isn't a good answer. Imagine saying this to the Christian man who's addicted to porn, or drugs, or overeating. His whole problem is that he can't "just do it," right?

It's hard for me to see that what you're saying is the case. If Paul had meant essentially the same thing when he wrote of living and walking in the Spirit, he'd have needed only to write of one or the other state, not both. What's more, the language of Galatians 5:25 is very plain that two...

I want to suggest that we shouldn't be aiming to arrive at "our most accurate understanding of a verse or passage," but at "the most accurate understanding" of them. For me, the difference is that "our" sounds very subjective - what I think, basically - the final arbiter of my accuracy of...

I've heard a great many Christian men, in particular, give lip-service to the need to submit to God and to walk in the power of the Spirit. But having made token acknowledgement of these things, they go on in word and deed to demonstrate neither of these things in their own mundane, daily...

Ah. Well, I appreciate that you wanted clarification before coming to a conclusion about where I stood. Doing so is, unfortunately, an increasingly rare thing, in my experience.

Sorry about the strange formatting in my last post...

So, there's one of two ways a born-again person lives every day: 1.) In the power of their flesh (intellect, determination, physical strength). 2.) In the power of the Holy Spirit. More often than not, at least in my experience, Christians are working to achieve a godly life from the first...

Yes, right...

Romans 6:6-7 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for he who has died is freed from sin. Romans 8:12-13 12 So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the...

This is an effect of walking in the Spirit rather than the essence of what that "walking" is, don't you think? How does "walking in the Spirit" happen so that it produces this effect?

All right. Question: So, why didn't Paul just write what you do here? Why did he write "walk in the Spirit" rather than "walk by faith and not by sight" which he did in 2 Corinthians 5:7? Why mean the latter but write the former? Why obscure his meaning in Galatians 5:25 but state it plainly...

Galatians 5:16-18 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want...