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I put this in the news and current event forum for a reason. Maybe the political forum merits the same understanding. It's such a simple but profound statement to me. I was actually struck by it, though I understood this already. I had to pause for thought as to why it stuck me so hard. Is it...

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Faith matters!

Throw away your television sets. Their drowning kids in sex at the youngest possible age. TV these days is just soft porn with a story line. This is devastating to children and their development. Think of television like you'd think of the pharmaceutical industry, or the food industry. They are...

The baptism of the Holy Spirit is the 'placing into' with the Holy Spirit by Jesus. That's what it means. We are placed into Jesus, thus "in Christ" when we receive the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. As we can see, being born again is the result of being "in Him", which is always the result of...

I can't believe the Browns just won that game. We usually lose these types of games. If we keep doing that we'll be out of the Fernando Mendoza, the Indiana QB sweepstakes. Sorry GB, I feel ya. Been there, done that already in game one.

I can vouch for this as I've experienced this in my life, though not as much as I would have liked. There's something about being in the wild, especially for men, that makes us feel like we were born to be out there where a man can breathe.

I have hopes that the writer meant spiritual baptism when referring to Romans 6. I didn't want a debate, I'm just going on record. Romans 6 is the spiritual 'placing into' Christ that results from faith.

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/sanctified-rehearse-identity/ July 29, 2025 | Sean DeMars In an age of identity politics, where people are subdivided into an infinite number of victim groups and used as pawns on political and cultural chessboards, Christians may be suspicious of...

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/young-men-wild-places/ Young Men, the Wild Places Are for You August 6, 2025 | Fletch Matlack Young men, God has designed wild places to unlock spiritual truths in your heart. Wilderness experiences are a visceral means of drawing you nearer to...

Hey Bill I used to think the same things that you do. I believe that the "hatred" of Esau in the Bible is best understood as God's rejection of the Edomite nation as the vessel for His covenant, not a personal hatred of the individual man. I believe that it fits the context better, and the...

Interesting what is being said here in Colossians 2, when we consider that the physical circumcision basically pictured, or symbolized cutting away sin. 'Putting off the body of sins of the flesh' here is described as a work/act/circumcision performed by Jesus, not us. Colossians 2:10-14 and...

Hey JF Maybe we always had a sin nature, at least in potential, since we were never created inherently good. Adam and Eve were protected from sinning by their ignorance of good and evil, and still having peace with God, were still plugged into the source of good, God Himself. In one fell swoop...

JF Would you think it strange that God never mentions a sin nature in Genesis three, or did He? 14 "So the Lord God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this,..."

Hey JF I quote these passages often in other topics, but they apply here. When we are placed in Christ, and born again, there is a spiritual death of sorts. Should we call the power of sin the old man? Is the flesh sinful by nature? Does it become that? So when the Old man is put to death...

Sorry, I'm falling behind in this thread. Time...

Hey Ken This first paragraph was the end of my post but I'm moving it up top: As I'm writing I'm thinking that one does not know of sin done in ignorance unless he is made aware of it. Perhaps that is what the Levitical sacrifice is speaking of. When they become aware of a sin that they did...

Hey Jon It's late, but I'll take the chance that I still can communicate without it sounding scatter brained. :) Then would you equate our being spiritually dead, what we inherited from Adam, the flesh, as simply a separation from God? In other words, we are evil because of a disconnect to...

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Hey Ben. In that passage Paul says nature, but not sin nature. The word 'nature' seems to be attached to 'children of wrath'. As I pointed out in another thread that bears repeating.... Romans 2:14-15 for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these...

Romans 7:18 and Galatians 5:17 Neither one actually says "sin nature' in the Greek. These words never appear together in Scripture as far as a I know. No doubt, we're naturally in bad shape separated from God, but is the term 'sin nature' misleading in any way as to the truth of our natural...