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If our "old man" is destroyed, (v6), what is raised with Christ is a new life/creature. More than necessary. If we have the faith to believe we are killed with Him we also have the faith to believe we are raised with Him. That is not about the resurrection of the dead on the day of judgement. It...

I love "what ifs". They give me ideas for movies. What if God gets through to Putin, and he calls an immediate cease fire and withdrawal from all occupied lands, and the Russian hawks rise up against him causing a Russian civil war? Would we send him help to quash the hawks? "QUASH THE HAWKS !"

Do you think being reborn is necessary for salvation? As that happens when we are "raised with Christ to walk in newness of life" at our water baptism, (Rom 6:4), it does seem necessary for salvation.

Are you still waiting for another Christ who is not named Jesus? If I hadn't listened I would never have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts, (Gal 5:24), in order to be free from committing sin ! Thanks be to God for the truth. And for allowing us to now walk after the Spirit...

Coming from a confused person that is high praise. The truth will set you free, just as Jesus said in John 8:32-34. It is relevant, as it shows the apostles did indeed teach in foreign lands and not to just Jews. The bible says nothing about the deaths of the apostles, save James, so what...

As you can't answer my question affirmatively, it is clear that the baptism of the Holy Ghost cannot make one free from sin. Or at least you haven't been made free from sinning.. Yes, it does. How can one who is free from sin still not be free from sin? He was the first, after Enoch, Elias...

I think Jesus was the first member of "the body of Jesus". Pray that your confusion ends, as God answers the prayers of the pure. Didn't all the apostles die in Gentile lands? Were they just looking for synagogues to preach in while they were killed in India, Libya, Rome, and elsewhere? Peter...

If Rom 6 is about the gift of the Holy Ghost, has it allowed you to live without sin? "Freed from sin", (Rom 6:7), "freed from sin", (Rom 6:18), "free from sin", (Rom 6:22). Water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of my past sins has allowed me to be free from sinning. Thanks...

Paul was the first of a pattern. The pattern being "worst" to "first". They weren't "bad enough" to impress the worst that they too could be converted. A man didn't have to follow Jesus around for three years in order to have their past sins forgiven. There is no "too evil to be converted" in...

That is indeed the "one" given by God to the truly repentant. (Acts 2:38) Peter calls it "the gift of the Holy Ghost".

God showed that the worst kind of person can be converted and used by Him, in spite of Paul's sordid past persecuting the new church. (1 Cor 15:9) Paul was the forerunner of all of us losers.

The kingdom of Israel is a nation on a map, primarily the descendants of Israel/Jacob.. The body of Christ is the church and everybody in it. (Eph 3:6) It is Christ Himself. (1 Cor 12:27)

Why did Paul not mention that "they glorified God and spoke in tongues" like he mentions in Acts 19 with the twelve at Ephesus if it was "Spirit baptism"?

All of Rom 6 is about water baptism too. Besides, why go over something each and every one of them heard by word of mouth on the first day of their incorporation into Christ...by water baptism. "For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ." (Gal 3:27)

Will those of "the Yukon" start referring to their nation as "Yukon" when they get their freedom from Canada?

Are you gonna press your...luck?

Obey God, and live. Disobey God, and die.

I prefer not to to make you angry with a continued back and forth, so will simply quit this thread for a while.

Here is one biblical quotation you may have missed..."I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." (Loke 5:32) What other things would men "turn from" in order to be saved? Jesus incorporated "wet" into remission of sins. And it does "come from Christ", as He commands it in...

According to what you think is true. Not at all, as I will never diminish the commandments of my Savior. (Matt 28:19, Mark 16:16) Water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of past sins is obedience to the exhortation of the Lord's apostle. (Acts 2:38) As there can be no...