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To: IMRight
I dont think I can reconcile them, but I can clarify my belief. I believe we are all born sinners and the wages of sin is death. I believe God has given us a way to go from death into life in the form of Jesus Christ. From being clothed in sin, to being clothed in Righteousness. Those who reject Christ have rejected life and have guaranteed themselves eternal damnation.

JM
2,169 posted on 04/06/2004 2:02:40 PM PDT by JohnnyM
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To: JohnnyM
I believe we are all born sinners and the wages of sin is death.

Just as the wages/reward of sin is death, so do the wages/reward of righteousness bring eternal life.

Proverbs 12:28
In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

righteousness and its root in Greek

Lexicon Greek 1343 [ from the root of 1342]
dikaiosune {dik-ah-yos-oo'-nay}
1) in a broad sense: state of him who is as he ought to be, righteousness, the condition acceptable to God
a) the doctrine concerning the way in which man may attain a state approved of God
b) integrity, virtue, purity of life, rightness, correctness of thinking feeling, and acting
2) in a narrower sense, justice or the virtue which gives each his due

Lexicon Greek 1342 dikaios {dik'-ah-yos}
1) righteous, observing divine laws
a) in a wide sense, upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping the commands of God
1) of those who seem to themselves to be righteous, who pride themselves to be righteous, who pride themselves in their virtues, whether real or imagined
2) innocent, faultless, guiltless
3) used of him whose way of thinking, feeling, and acting is wholly conformed to the will of God, and who therefore needs no rectification in the heart or life
a) only Christ truly
4) approved of or acceptable of God
b) in a narrower sense, rendering to each his due and that in a judicial sense, passing just judgment on others, whether expressed in words or shown by the manner of dealing with them

Matthew 5:10
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 25:46
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

2,171 posted on 04/06/2004 2:07:48 PM PDT by ET(end tyranny) (Isaiah 47:4 - Our Redeemer, YHWH of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.)
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To: JohnnyM
I dont think I can reconcile them,

I had a feeling. :-)

I believe we are all born sinners and the wages of sin is death. I believe God has given us a way to go from death into life in the form of Jesus Christ. From being clothed in sin, to being clothed in Righteousness. Those who reject Christ have rejected life and have guaranteed themselves eternal damnation.

Sounds about right to me. The only change I would make is that we are all born with the stain of Adam's sin. That we are "predisposed" to sin. We have a "bent", a "concupiscence", a "sin that dwells within me that is not MY sin" as Paul would say.

We certainly DO sin almost immediately thereafter... but...

The rest of it was fine. Partial credit for showing your work.

2,172 posted on 04/06/2004 2:10:34 PM PDT by IMRight
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