Recent content by ttruscott

All sinners who are legitimate children of GOD are being trained in righteousness...ie, they are all still missing the mark. The crux is not who we are now but who we will be...

I totally agree that man is conceived in sin and born an enemy to GOD. But it is anathema to me that man is created that way by GOD putting us into Adam and making us to inherit his sin! Nor can sinful man, enslaved to sin, have a free will because that renders our Lord's words enslaved to sin...

...or perhaps we all can only speak to our own predetermined experience: reprobate followers of false gods do indeed reincarnate but the legitimate children of the One True GOD never experience reincarnation but only resurrection and the heavenly marriage. Otherwise the greater vast majority of...

Ahhhh.... breathing implies a body to me. Do angels breath in heaven or just on earth? We know they can breath as they sing on earth sometimes.

ImCo, all those created in the image of GOD, ie, able to become a perfect Bride for HIM, were created as spirits, non -corporeal people. When a spirit is sown into the earth to give life to a body, it is called a soul, an embodied spirit. The English word "soul" comes from the Old English*...

Deut 6.4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One [echad]. Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one [echad] flesh. Echad, can refer to the word one and to the word unity, as these verses indicate... We...

I do not think this makes sense because there is no reason for the ONE who loves us and who created us to be HIS bride would have us become sinners by creating us sinners 'in Adam' rather than like Adam in his pre-sin innocence. Light cannot create darkness, even by a surrogate. A good tree...

Romans 9:11 does not even hint at answers to the questions: IF they were just newly created tabula rasa, - how did they know about the law of PRIMOGENITURE? and: - how did they know that they were being born into a culture that followed the rule of primogeniture??

Rom 9:11 does not say that they did no evil before they were born - it says that before they were born or ever did any evil in this life after their birth, one was already chosen / elected to lead and one to follow because HE loved the one and the other HE hated...to prove election was not by...

Really?? It is written that they were trying to crush each other to pieces....not jostle or wrestle. Sounds sinful to me... And I also must ask, what did YHWH tell Rebecca was the reason for their sinful assault upon each other? Why, HE told her it was so they could be the first born and rule...

"in Adam all die" cannot replace the definition of death as the wages for sin...it must be seen as an addendum to the definition of death or we get into logical fallacies. Some cannot die in Adam without also being sinners since both are said to refer to death not "either or". This actually...

Yes, because we have all sinned, we are born into Adam's death. ...another way of saying, all are sinners, none is righteous, not one but it doesn't say we got that sinfulness from Adam and not from our own free will decision to rebel against HIM. It is blasphemy against HIS loving kindness...

I do agree....but: how is it morally right to condemn those innocent of sin to receive the wages for sin, ie, death, BEFORE they are created and before they ever chose to be sinful in HIS sight? My suggested answer is that 1. only those who are sinners already are sown into Adam's death so 2...

I have never denied this! I just deny that our sinfulness and lack of righteousness are forced upon us without any decision to sin by our being forced to be conceived in A SINFUL ADAM by GOD's will! Completely impossible or GOD is not holy...

Having Adam's guilt imputed to us does not make an innocent person (innocent of any choice to sin) to become a sinner any more than having Christ's righteousness imputed to us makes us fully righteous with no need for any sanctification! The only people born into Adam to have his guilt imputed...