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Are you asking, "Can we know objectively that [another] person [other than ourself] is a true believer?"? It would be more accurate to say that a "fellowshipper" walks in the light. Don't get "true believer" and "fellowshipper" mixed up; they're not the same. A true believer can wander out of...

I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. All people HAVE been born - unless you know of some who were hatched. But they HAD the Savior - they just spurned Him. God, who is the Saviour of all men ... 1 Tim 4:10 Who gave himself a ransom for all 1 Tim 2:6 And he...

Rufus gave an illustration earlier that I like. A lion cub is a carnivore before he ever eats his first morsel of meat. He eats meat because he was born a carnivore by nature.

I don't think people are born "sinning" (an action) either. I believe they are born of the flesh (a state) and need to be born of the Spirit. I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: Romans 7:18 (KJV) ... flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth...

It's a tough subject, but here are a few tidbits that come to mind: There was God's law prior to Moses/Sinai. Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. Gen 26:5 (God to Cain) ... sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his...

No, just letting the text speak for itself.

All the while someone is dying, they're 100% alive. God didn't say, "in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely be dying"; He said, "thou shalt surely die".

And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. Mark 16:15 (KJV) And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:10 (KJV)

You're mixing "partly dead" with "dead". A person is either dead or he isn't. You seem to get that idea from your miss-rendering of the conversation between Eve & the serpent: Eve doesn't mention "day" at all, but the serpent does. But in God's actual statement (2:17), He says they'll...

It seems it may have been: For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know...

Do you understand death to be "separation"?

Why do babies physically die before they get the law?

Sometime after he graduates googoo and waah.

The law that a newborn doesn't have.

I didn't say the written code of the law.

I never said that.

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; Acts 17:26 (KJV) It might be helpful to consider "times" and "boundaries" together (as a combination). As you alluded...

A newborn doesn't have the law. Sin is not imputed when there is no law. Therefore every sinner who dies before they have the law goes to heaven - no exceptions, no "sovereign choosing" of one over another. The newborn is personally innocent of Adam's specific transgression, but physically...

If newborns weren't born in sin, they would never die until they were old enough to commit their first sin.

That passage has nothing to do with eternal salvation.