@sonship saidThis here is a classic example of :
@medullah
An important part of the New Covenant is that He resurrected and became the life giving Spirit to enable is to walk not in lawlessness but fulfilling the righteous requirement of the law. "the last Adam became a life giving Spirit" (1 Cor. 15:45)
He justified us that He could impart HIMSELF into us and live in us by "a life giving Spir ...[text shortened]... ce might reign in righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Rom. 5:20,21)
- evading the question posed to you [now it is about rape in the bible]
- going completely off topic
- using every opportunity to promote your false doctrine.
Your off-topic post is mumbo jumbo nonsense, and you post this over and over and over without clearly explaining the meaning of all this to peoples lives, they way Paul did. It is a grave error condemned in the bible to pick out certain things [in this case Paul] without giving the whole story and explanation which Paul gave.
In every one of Pauls letter he did speak of
- being in Christ
- living in Christ
- a new life in Christ
- Christ is a life-giving spirit
- living according to the Spirit
- Walk in the Spirit
But what does that mean, to people's everyday lives ???? !!!
WHAT ?? Why do you omit that critical teaching of Jesus and the Apostles
You never say, because you know that the day you clarify the true meaning of all of that the way Paul did, and Peter did, and John did, and all the Apostles did, your 'once saved always saved' doctrine falls flat on its butt and you are left looking like a damn fool, because it all goes right back to righteousness and good works otherwise there is no eternal life
Christ did not die so that crooked Christians can continue to sin and escape damnation.
In every one of Pauls letter he did speak of
- being in Christ
- living in Christ
- a new life in Christ
- Christ is a life-giving spirit
- living according to the Spirit
- Walk in the Spirit
But what does that mean, to people's everyday lives ???? !!!
WHAT ?? Why do you omit that critical teaching of Jesus and the Apostles
The items you listed are mentioned not only in most of the epistles of ALL the New Testament writers. They are listed in the four Gospels themselves. Paul pioneered to EXPERIENCE what Jesus taught. And others also did so.
Let's find these critical truths in the Gospels.
- being in Christ
Teaching of His coming death and resurrection Jesus promised that when He rose - "In that day you will know that I am in My Father and you in Me and I in you." (John 14:20)
In His resurrected state if believing He can enter into them. With Him the Father in whom He is. And they being indwelt with Jesus will be IN HIM.
- living in Christ
The same quote above applies if you include the preceding words.
"I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you. Yet a little while and the world beholds Me no longer, but you behold Me;
because I live you shall live also." (John 14:18-19)
He will not leave His believers as orphans. He Himself is coming to them in the form of the Holy Spirit. They will LIVE through Him in them as the Holy Spirit. This Spirit the world cannot behold. But those indwelt with Him behold Him.
I use to thing "Jesus, whether you rise from the dead or not men will go on to live." But the sentence "because I live, you also will live" means living in a new way. That is REALLY living. That is REALLY having life because Life Himself is imparted into our being.
He CAME that we might have the triune God as life and life abundantly.
"I have come that they man have life and have it abundantly." (John 10:10)
All these truths and many, many more speak to "living in Christ".
- a new life in Christ
This also comes right out of the mouth of Jesus before Paul wrote of it.
Too much of the Gospel of John speaks to a new life in Christ made possible from His resurrection and indwelling.
"And when He [the resurrected Jesus] said this He breathed into them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins yo forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you retain, they are retained." (John 20:22,23)
Do not be distracted from our point. A MAJOR change in their lives took place upon the Holy Spirit being breathed INTO the disciples. He did this to the as an example to the rest of believers. Into them the Holy Spirit which is Jesus Christ in His pneumatic form enters into them.
This is for the commencement of a whole NEW way of living.
This is why John wrote his Gospel. That we might have a new divine and eternal life in the name of Jesus Christ the Son of God.
"But these things have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing, you may have life in His name." (John 20:31)
Again speaking of His resurrection state - "Because I live you also shall live." The Triune God will come and make a living abode within the lovers of Jesus.
"If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him." (John 14:23)
- Christ is a life-giving spirit
Paul clarified this in First Corinthians 15:45.
But Jesus taught that He would enter into the disciples, not leaving them as orphans, but coming to them as the Spirit of reality, the another Comforter sent from the Father.
"And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, that He may be with you FOREVER, Even the Spirit of reality, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him; but you know Him, because He abides with you and shall be in you.
I will not leave you as orphans, I AM COMING TO YOU." (John 14:16-18)
If you look at this carefully Jesus Christ is coming to the lovers of Jesus in the form of "another Comforter" the Spirit of truth. That is the Spirit of reality - the Holy Spirit, the Third of the trinity.
He was WITH them abiding with them.
After His resurrection He will be IN THEM abiding IN THEM.
"I will not leave you as orphans, I AM COMING TO YOU."
And now I must suspend writing to join some fellow believers for the Lord's table meeting in Pittsburgh PA.
The other verses will have to wait.