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    Salvation through Christ alone not works less any man should boast.

    Yes, that would be a very good idea.
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    Salvation through Christ alone not works less any man should boast.

    You may not see it but there is an answer in there. It is an article I wrote and I thought it relevant. I'm not interested to debate and go back and forth, we all have a Bible and the truth is available to all those who sincerely seek it. Faith IS a work. Faith is a full persuasion of the mind...
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    Salvation through Christ alone not works less any man should boast.

    Php 2:13 is the grace of God and Php 2:12 is our faith. We are saved by grace through faith which is what Eph 2:8 says. We are not saved of ourselves just like Noah was not saved of himself, Noah was a worker together with God and we are to be workers together with God too. God is...
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    Salvation through Christ alone not works less any man should boast.

    Eph 2:7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast...
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    Salvation through Christ alone not works less any man should boast.

    Continuing in Ephesians 2. Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: A true Christian walked in times past according to the course of...
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    Salvation through Christ alone not works less any man should boast.

    Ephesians 2:1-10 Commentary. Eph 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; God does the quickening. We don't quicken ourselves. He quickens us when we are still dead in our trespasses and sins for we cannot make ourselves alive. Look at these verse...
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    Many Scriptural proofs of man’s inherited sin nature

    If one is being sanctified then they have escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust and they are adding to their faith. They are not committing willful sin for that means they have not escaped the corruption that is through lust. Their flesh is not crucified in that case and they...
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    Many Scriptural proofs of man’s inherited sin nature

    So now you are doing what you did with Romans 2:7. You did not like Rom 2:7 in context so you said that it stands alone and is not in the context of God rendering to every man according to his deeds. Rom 2:6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: Rom 2:7 To them who by patient...
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    Many Scriptural proofs of man’s inherited sin nature

    You are viewing salvation as merely forensic, as something abstract. Thus you believe that one can be saved and yet still be engaged in vile behaviour. Say it is not so! You would have a serial killer saved and killing less and less in his post salvation walk correct? Say it is not so. When...
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    How do you interpret a comandment of picking up a cross and denying your self?

    You are in error. The Bible specifically states that those that are Christ's HAVE crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. You are teaching the opposite of that in saying that it is a gradual process. There are no scriptures that speak of a gradual process of sinning less and less...
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    Many Scriptural proofs of man’s inherited sin nature

    You can disagree all you want. Rom 3:25 specifically says PAST SINS but you don't want to believe that. Rhetoric does not undo what the Bible plainly states. Paul meant what he said, but it doesn't line up with your theology so you reject the Bible in favour of your theology. None of those...
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    Many Scriptural proofs of man’s inherited sin nature

    No I don't interpret salvation that way. Salvation is being set free from the bondage of sin as well as being purged of all our past sins. It is not equivalent to eternal life. Eternal life is granted to those who patiently continue in doing good, ie. bearing fruit unto righteousness...
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    Many Scriptural proofs of man’s inherited sin nature

    There is not a single scripture that states that future sins are forgiven in advance. That understanding is due to holding to the Penal Substitution view of the atonement which is mainly developed via the reformers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_substitution Research that and see for...
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    Many Scriptural proofs of man’s inherited sin nature

    I wrote a comprehensive article on that one too. http://thesinmuststop.blogspot.com/2012/01/brief-note-on-works.html The gift of God is salvation by grace through faith. It is the dynamic by which our hearts are purified (Acts 3:19, 1Pet 1:22). We have to be a worker together with God lest...
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    Many Scriptural proofs of man’s inherited sin nature

    If salvation is an abstract or forensic legal position totally disconnected from our deeds then I guess it could not be lost. Yet if salvation is a state of walking in obedience to God having been set free from the bondage of sin as well as having been forgiven for past sins then to willfully...
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    Many Scriptural proofs of man’s inherited sin nature

    I don't have any problem with what you have written here. Indeed sin is in the yielding to temptation. Christian's are to rule over temptation and not sin, they are to take the way of escape as it mentioned in that verse you posted. A Christian can sin intentionally or unintentionally. Willful...
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    Many Scriptural proofs of man’s inherited sin nature

    Re: To WILL is present with me... You won't deal with that question because your answer would reveal the fallacy of getting saved in sin. If a serial killer had to stop his murders prior to being forgiven by God then so would a liar have to stop lying, a thief stop stealing, a porn watcher...
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    Many Scriptural proofs of man’s inherited sin nature

    Re: To WILL is present with me... Salvation is when we accept God's redemption? That doesn't sound like the strait gate, deny yourself, pick up your cross, go and sin no more teaching of Jesus to me. That sounds like a package where you can be double minded and serve two masters. Let me...
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    How do you interpret a comandment of picking up a cross and denying your self?

    I'll comment on the scripture reference in question. Mat 16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. Mat 16:25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my...
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    Many Scriptural proofs of man’s inherited sin nature

    Re: the sting of death is sin... I stand corrected after looking at the context. 1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 1Co 15:53 For this corruptible must put...
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