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I hungered and thirsted for righteousness well before I believed in Christ. I even mocked Christians back then. So your claim that all unregenerate people hate righteousness and godliness is simply ignorant and not based on experience like I've had.

The gospel of grace was first proclaimed to the gentiles by Peter, not Paul, and it was no different than what all of the apostles followed. God is no respecter of persons. Works of law is not grace. Believing Jews zealously following the law was done out of ignorance of the fullness of God's...

Paul said those who proclaim another gospel than what he proclaimed are cursed. Acts 15 makes it clear that apostles to the circumcision and uncircumcision proclaimed the same gospel. The only reasons Jews in Jerusalem were so zealous for the law are because that was their culture and measure of...

How does grape juice take way the heart? Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. Hosea 4:11

You're just flip flopping around to avoid being pinned down. You said in post 1,068 that being regenerated means being born from above. Are you saying that people before Pentecost were born from above?

How were people before Pentecost born from above, ie regenerated?

Works of faith do not contradict justification by faith. When Paul contrasts works and faith he is referring to works of law

Believing Jews were not required by God to observe the law of Moses after the cross. God's laws written on our hearts has been his goal from the beginning for all of humanity, Israel included. Israel was just a parenthetical dispensation in order to bring that reality into existence.

That dispensation ended with the cross. Jesus was actually pointing the woman away from Jews as being connected to salvation when he said the temple in Jerusalem, the central focus of the Jewish religion, was no longer necessary to know and worship God Ye worship ye know not what: we know what...

No I haven't read your other comments on this. I click on latest post and work backwards on threads with a lot of responses.. So sorry. Per the bolded above, salvation has never originated from anything other than Christ, so I don't understand what you mean. Salvation has always been what came...

About a second or two. Are you saying to do the same with food? Whatever works. You could also try chewing real, real slow so you're eating less in the same amount of time

btw, the young man doesn't sound like a true Christian. He sounds like someone who was raised by Christian parents who were more concerned about image than righteousness and his rebellion is a reaction to their shackles. That article is just an attempt to normalize homosexuality using the...

So are true Christians who are tempted to be adulterers, murders, thieves, liars, etc. Solution? First and foremost, acknowledge the sin. Without that there will never be healing

Why then do some unregenerate people hunger and thirst for righteousness? When Christ said this no one had been regenerated. Blessed are the ones hungering and thirsting for righteousness, for they shall be filled. Matthew 5:6

It's generally accepted by most bible scholars that the last part of Romans 8:1 in the KJV is an interpolation from verse 4 and doesn't belong there, which makes sense because positionally there is no condemnation in Christ and righteousness is fulfilled in us when we walk after the spirit as...

Good to hear. Practice doing that and you will do well. I have issues with coffee too. I like the taste so I started taking sips to get the taste and then spitting it out into a cup like guys at work who chew do. Works well

Then how do unregenerate people do things from the heart that are God's will like what Christ said the Samaritan did? There is no law against such things, which means it's not sin, which is what God wills.

But the story very well could be real. That's why it's so powerful. We've all seen this kind of thing in some form or another. So if today this happened in some capacity how would an unregenerate person know how to do the will of God? Where does that knowledge come from? It's certainly not...

Maybe you need to repent of your self-assuredness and playing fast and loose with the word of God

Do you seriously think the Samaritan was born from above?