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It appears that you still do not comprehend the three tenses of salvation. Jesus went to the cross to take upon Himself the penalty for my sin THAT TAINTED MY SPIRIT as it WAS attached to my soul, my behavior mechanism. When I believed The Promise of God that Jesus is my Savior, the taint of sin was removed from my SPIRIT and the Word of God Believed separated my born again spirit from my behavior mechanism so that The Life of God can ABIDE in my before dead spirit. My soul and spirit are no longer united. When I die or get Raptured it is the flesh -made up of soul and body- which is left behind in the grave or transformed in a moment int he twinkling of an eye.

The sin I have done since being reborn in Him has been a soulish action, not a spiritual action. The second tense is being saved from the power of sin and temptation, as I have gradually :LEARNED to liten to the Holy Spirit in my spirit so that my actions are not directed by the part of me that IS an habitual sinner. No success or failure of that new guidance process effects the first tense. I was saved from the penalty of sin and God's spark of Holy Spirit life has abided in my spirit ever since. I was not saved in or by baptism. I was saved from the penalty of sin by believing in God's Grace in Christ alone. Nothing happening in the second tense of salvation adds or subtracts from what God did in the first tense.

The third tense of my salvation awaits what only God can do when Jesus comes to the first Heaven to gather The Body of Christ to Himself and return to the third Heaven with the Body of Christ Believers transformed int he twinkling of an eye ... ALL the Body of Christ -living or dead- transformed into new bodies and behavior mechanisms.