Posted on 06/04/2017 4:37:48 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
God saves us. Only He can give life to something dead.
"Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)" - Ephesians 2:5
Love is the glue that holds the human soul together. It’s the reason Jesus’ commandments are so important.
Sin creates an obstacle to Love in the soul. Grace heals the soul by removing the obstacle to Love.
If you heal the body, it is temporary. If you heal the soul it is permanent. The soul manifests the physical body. Sin destroys the physical body by injuring the soul.
In order to know Thy Father you must be like a child, free of sin. It is the sparkle you see in their eyes.
Loving thy neighbor as thyself is the process of finding and removing the obstacles to Love that exist within our souls. It is the process of becoming like a child.
Being dead in sin is being like the house built on sand rather than the house built upon the rock.
Some souls I encounter are like swiss cheese there are so many holes. Each of these souls is a sin.
Are you a Christian? I see that you are mentioning some passages from the Bible, but what you posted doesn’t really give me a good idea of what your own beliefs are.
We went over this this morning in church.
John 3:1-21 discusses the issue.
Jesus said to Nicodemus that you must be born again. Spiritually.
There is no other way. If you are not born again then you are dead in sin.
Children aren’t free from sin. All sons of Adam are “shaped in iniquity” and “conceived in sin.” (Psalm 51:5) That’s the effect of the Fall.
No man can remove sin from his own heart, only God can do that through the miracle of the new birth. However, even then we aren’t free from sin (see Paul describe his ongoing struggle with his sin nature in Romans 7). Instead we have a new nature that fights against sin and because Christ Jesus paid the price for our sin, we are declared righteous and reconciled to the Lord.
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“What Does the Phrase ‘Dead in Sin” Mean?”
It’s referring to the old man “Adam” nature which is dead in sin as opposed to the new creation and new life in Christ Jesus, being risen with him to eternal life.
Ephesians 2:6 -
“And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus”
Why does this make me think of Katy Perry on snl. Sick and dead parade.
Very much Christian. Jesus is my Savior.
For me, much of the Bible is experiential rather than theoretical. I accept the Bible as the truth.
I keep a Bible by my reading chair and try to read or refer to it for guidance often.
A verse to consider:
Most Christiansuccessful don’t understand being “born of the spirit.”
When you are born of the spirit you begin to perceive dire tly from your soul or spirit rather than just your five senses.
Sorry for typo. Using my cell phone with spellcheck.
I’ve died, gone to Heaven and returned into my physical body. Nothing in my experience discounted the Bible in any way. In fact it did the exact opposite. It increased my understanding to a knowing rather than just believing.
In my death I left my physical body and realized that I am a soul or spirit, not this temporary body. The process of dying caused me to lose my individual ego identity and to realize that I am a child of and creation of God. That is the reason for dying daily as if we are full of ourselves we have no room for God.
I see and feel the sins of others as physical objects in their soul as I walk up to them ever since my death almost 30 years ago. Most people also see sins in a person’s eyes. They are actually stored in the soul around the physical body. It’s how Jesus knew the thoughts and history of everyone around Him.
By the way, no one can ever separate from God as God is omnipresent.
However, my Father’s mansion has many rooms and if we deny the Holy Spirit that helps our souls grow, we become low and end up shackled in the proverbial dungeon of hell. Yes, hell is real.
There is much more to this journey of our soul than most people realize.
There is a scripture that describes the effect of sin as it relates to the Holy Spirit.
I don’t have time to look it up right now, but it says that a prayerful blessing to an evil person is like placing hot coals upon their head.
Sin causes souls to become afraid of the Holy Spirit as it brings them pain. Satan’s great lie is that the Holy Spirit and it’s Light will kill you when in reality it saves you.
This is why it is important to Love your enemy as your Love is like placing hot coals upon them and it keeps them away from you.
The things I say above are based upon actual experiences and are not just theories.
[[I’ve died, gone to Heaven and returned into my physical body.]]
Lucky You- I went to hell- shook my faith to it’s core-
It’s never to late to turn in the right direction. Even the vineyard workers that arrive in the last hour get the same pay.
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