[Olog-hai]

I stand corrected on that point, but a high percentage of your posts do not quote a single scripture. I myself am wary of any assertion of man, and tend to take God literally, even to the point of examining what the scriptures say in the original tongues (Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek).

The word translated “grace” in Romans 6:14 is Greek χάρις, which generally translates as “kindness” or to be shown (undue) favor, and the following verse declares that anyone under grace has no permission to sin (i.e. break God’s law). Recall that people can also fall from grace (Galatians 5:4) if they think they can be justified by the law alone without Christ’s sacrifice and subsequent rising from the dead; this demonstrates the law to still be in effect, along with the Old Testament verses that show the commandments to be established forever (the Hebrew word Olam does indeed mean “forever”).

[HiTech RedNeck]

I commend you on your assiduous dedication to scripture.

What I ask you to do is to look at your own mind set. Are you looking at these words with the mindset of “bless” or the mindset of “damn”?

“Bless” will see large blessings. “Damn” will minimize blessings. It’s just true.

Take the blessing challenge. Most people see God as forever wreaking vengeance when what God is doing... well let’s cut over to His word... emphasis cheerfully mine... “For God did not send His Son into the world TO CONDEMN THE WORLD... BUT that through Him the world might be SAVED.”

[HiTech RedNeck]

And I am not coming to you as some Freud fraud talking about mind set either. Does “RENEWING OF YOUR MIND” come to memory?.... in the English or the Greek or Swahili?

[HiTech RedNeck]

As for me I am now COMING TO JESUS AS A CHILD... truly! Jesus rolled back nearly a whole lifetime of “DAMN” that I was living.

I see the blessings better and better now... blessings that in fact I had begun to believe when a child, but when difficulties came and I got static, I went for plan B which was to sin. God sure ran me through a wringer, sir.

I don’t see anything racked up as a blessing that is telling me to sin! Not one. These blessings are propelling me in the opposite direction from sin, not perfectly yet because I don’t have it perfect yet, but God is forgiving me every day and I’m getting it better and better every day.