Yes, I did read it, but, to be honest, you are not very good at making yourself understood by the average reader. I'm about average, and I can't make heads or trails out of what you say. If you want to talk about what it means to be spiritually dead, then you need to focus on that....and support it or refute it. Otherwise you build a house and none can feel safe entering because the foundation appears to be shaky.
To be spiritually dead is to be dead to spiritual things, unable to do spiritually good acts like believing, repenting, etc.
That we should overcome evil with good has NOTHING to do with our salvation, and that's what you're attempting to prove.
Then you don't understand what I'm trying to say. Again, people are born written in the Book of Life and are therefore heaven-bound UNTIL deleted from it. Our being written in the Book of Life is because of what God through Christ has done for us on the cross. Our overcoming evil with good is what the Head wants His Body parts to do.
Eph. 2 proves you wrong. We are saved by grace through faith...not of works....not of ourselves lest any should boast.
And that's what I'm telling you by saying that people are born written in the Book of Life because of what God through Christ has done for us. It's because of grace that our names were written there. How can it be by our works when we were born with our names already there?
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saves us. Salvation is a gift . . .
That's why I keep on saying that we were born with our names already in the Book of Life. How can that be not a gift. But you teach that people can not be written there UNLESS he first believes. It's you who seem to be teaching salvation by works: Believe first to be written in the Book of Life.
. . . and you're trying to claim it's something we must earn by our overcoming sin.
Wrong. With our names in the book of life, we are already heaven-bound. That we are born heaven-bound, is what I teach. It's you who teach that unless man believes, he cannot be heaven-bound. And that's a works-based salvation.
Our Lord overcame sin and death by HIS work. A work we certainly are unable to do....try as we might. If we could do so, there would have been no reason for our Lord to come and do it for us.
And He is our Shepherd; we are His sheep. And being His sheep, we are enjoined by our Shepherd to follow Him Who fashioned us into His Body on the cross. And attached to Him Who is our Strength for overcoming, we have His Power to overcome evil with good.
No, I'm not.
It looks to me like you're trying to get around the mistaken idea that man is so dead he cannot hear, so you're claiming we are saved before we "believe unto righteousness".
So you believe the dead can hear? You believe the dead can believe? That's why I am asking you to explain how the dead can hear and believe.
Again, there are 3 tenses of salvation: past, present, future. God has saved us, is saving us, and will yet save us. Read my earlier posts in page 1 of this thread, so you can better understand the gospel.
I did show you....there are books and there is another book. You ignored part of your own scripture. I can't make you read correctly. Clear up your jumbled post, and then maybe I can address it how you would find acceptable.
It's in the Book of Life where names are written. And when one's name is not found there, he's destination is the lake of fire. Do you believe this?
