Their you go quoting scripture again. Is there no end to this?/s
I think the misunderstanding with our FRoman FRiends is they assume we are all antinomians going off to sin city with no regrets once saved and professing our faith in baptism. To which I usually respond that once saved much is required of us as bond servants (slaves more accurately) to our Lord Jesus Christ.
At the risk of boring those who think Scripture is somehow insufficient, Romans 6 covers their objections:
6 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death
Of course they don't understand it because they don't understand what the new birth is about; what getting a new heart and a new mind is like and the transformation that occurs within when that happens.
They don't know what it's like to have the mind of Christ or to have their minds transformed by renewal ala Romans 12:2
You can tell them until you're blue in the face about the changed heart but until they have one, they don't get it. They CAN'T get it.
So with carnal minds and carnal thinking, they conclude that just because someone receives a gift as great as eternal life, someone will automatically take it and run with it to live a life of licentiousness because that is what THEY'd do. It's called projecting.
It seems to be beyond their comprehension that the saved person would NOT want to do that and that those who think that way are not really saved.