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To: Mr Rogers
“Incomplete and therefore incorrect”

No. To be “in Christ” has meaning. To continue:

“Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death...

Which Bible version are you quoting, and why are you deleting part of the verse ? Are you deleting part of the verse on purpose ?

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Romans, Catholic chapter eight, Protestant verses one to two,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James, bold underline emphasis mine

208 posted on 11/05/2015 4:38:38 AM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981

“Which Bible version are you quoting, and why are you deleting part of the verse ? Are you deleting part of the verse on purpose ?”

New American Standard Bible:

“1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, 7 because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, 8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.” - Romans 8

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+8&version=NASB

“Catholic Answers” gives their assessment of the NASB here:

http://www.catholic.com/tracts/bible-translations-guide

New American Bible: “1 Hence, now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed you from the law of sin and death.”


211 posted on 11/05/2015 6:18:17 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
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To: af_vet_1981

You quote the passage of walking after the Spirit, but do you actually know what that means, in terms of it being a work of God not a man’s efforts to be ‘good enough’? Perhaps you would explain for me, in your words, what walking after the spirit is and how it comes about, from a before state of being a sinful man then born from above?


350 posted on 11/06/2015 12:55:50 PM PST by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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