How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

[Michiah-Imla]

you do realize this was written to religious dictators who had just escaped Judaism?

Compared with:

It was written to the saints and to the those that were the faithful in Christ.

????????

 

[Waiting on him]

It was written to the Ephesians.

And James was written too the twelve tribes of Israel

That's nothing like @Lizbeth said however. We know we are His by His Spirit within us. This is how I know. It's not because we have good opinions of our behavior, it's not because we think we conform to some "Law", but because we know, that is, we have relationship with our Creator.

Why the need to cheapen this to be full of dead men's bones? The Holy Spirit gives us life, not death. It's a different life, not like the old life, and knowing Him. Otherwise, how are not not simply continuing in dead works?

Being Christian is about knowing God, and being alive in Him, and being a different person because of that.

Much love!

how do you know that you’ve not just found a good coping mechanism?

 

[Johann]

how do you know that you’ve not just found a good coping mechanism?

What's the matter @Waiting on him -tired of waiting on the Messiah?
Have you become disheartened?
Why would Yeshua be a coping mechanism-I believe @marks to be very sincere and consistent in his beliefs re the Scriptures.

 

[Waiting on him]

What's the matter @Waiting on him -tired of waiting on the Messiah?
Have you become disheartened?
Why would Yeshua be a coping mechanism-I believe @marks to be very sincere and consistent in his beliefs re the Scriptures.

Oh, you believe my avatar implies I’m waiting on a flesh Jesus to return.

 

[Johann]

Oh, you believe my avatar implies I’m waiting on a flesh Jesus to return.

I am asking you, have you become disheartened? Are you beginning to ask the Scriptures questions--since you mentioned that it might be a mere coping mechanism?

 

[Waiting on him]

What's the matter @Waiting on him -tired of waiting on the Messiah?
Have you become disheartened?
Why would Yeshua be a coping mechanism-I believe @marks to be very sincere and consistent in his beliefs re the Scriptures.

What is it you truly want from me?

 

[Johann]

What is it you truly want from me?

Just concerned-since it would appear you are asking a lot of questions, indicative that you may have become disheartened re the Scriptures?

 

[Waiting on him]

I am asking you, have you become disheartened? Are you beginning to ask the Scriptures questions--since you mentioned that it might be a mere coping mechanism?

My confidence in God grows daily, my confidence in men dies daily.

This is my best answer.

 

[Waiting on him]

Just concerned-since it would appear you are asking a lot of questions, indicative that you may have become disheartened re the Scriptures?

Since moving away from organized religion I am seeing things very differently.

 

[Johann]

My confidence in God grows daily, my confidence in men dies daily.

This is my best answer.

Thank you-you find it difficult to trust, or yield trust to members in the body of Christ, even on this platform.
J.

 

[Waiting on him]

Thank you-you find it difficult to trust, or yield trust to members in the body of Christ, even on this platform.
J.

I would define them as alleged.

 

[Johann]

Since moving away from organized religion I am seeing things very differently.

In what way have you moved away from organized religion? What is organized religion?

 

[Johann]

I would define them as alleged.

Care to elaborate?

 

[Waiting on him]

Care to elaborate?

Ask yourself again, what is it you truly want from me?

 

[Johann]

Ask yourself again, what is it you truly want from me?

You said you moved away from organized religion-what is it-and what are you embracing now?

 

[Waiting on him]

You said you moved away from organized religion-what is it-and what are you embracing now?

God

 

[Johann]

God

Does this God include Christ Jesus?

 

[Waiting on him]

You said you moved away from organized religion-what is it-and what are you embracing now?

Do you believe the Saints is a reference too all who claim Christ as Lord?

I’m not asking for 1500 years of commentary, I’m asking you.

 

[Waiting on him]

Does this God include Christ Jesus?

How could it not? He is the first born of the new creation.

 

[Johann]

Do you believe the Saints is a reference too all who claim Christ as Lord?

I’m not asking for 1500 years of commentary, I’m asking you.

To all whom YHVH has called-not everyone claiming to be a "saint" is a "saint"