Terrarica,

As Nick states, you confuse the vessel with the contents. There is an inner man and an outer man and Colossians 1 and Philippians 2 are both speaking of the inner man because he is the most important of the two.

There is a tradition to call the word that comes out of God’s mouth the logos and its the logos that Adam was made in the…[Read more]

Nick,

Does that give you permission to use Jesus where scripture says the anointed Jesus?

The spirit of the words gives permission not the letter.

Beware of the letter which Satan can use to deceive.

I have not known him to misuse the spirit.

Nick,

Yes, to both of your posts!

Nick,

There are also those that think it is more important to be the Son of God’s essence (not that it is possible) than his Spirit.

Nick,

I hear you!

Jesus Christ is the human being that laid his life down for us.
some find this fact to challenging.

Nick,

That is how to learn.

WorhippingJesus,

Hello, glad to hear things are going well.
Mike peeked in to see what was going on a short while ago.

Nick,

That passage does describe it.

Nick,

Yes!

Nick,

Paul makes some bold claims in Ephesians 5:9.

Nick,

I also know people can choose to live by the flesh even after being cleansed of righteousness. If that is the case John teaches them to confess their sins that they may be cleansed of all unrighteousness.

Nick,

John said he cleanses the believe from all unrighteous the result is being like God in true righteousness. I can check but I doubt translators added the word “all”.

I admit it is a bold claim but he makes a lot of bold claims.

Nick,

It makes sense that is making the vessels holy and not righteous but Jews still wash their vessels to make them ceremonial clean. So I would think in that case cleansing them makes them holy.

On the other hand Paul is using it to symbolize something. I have not looked into the details.

Nick,

John believes it is the case as he states “cleanse us from all unrighteousness”.

Nick,

Sanctify may not mean cleansed in any of the verses you mentioned and certainly not in 1 Corinthians 6:11, as depending on the version, “washed” or “cleansed” does. Instead it means to be made holy. Of course holiness and righteousness are also linked.

Nick,

There are place where Scripture rephrases a though to make a point.

Psalm 18:20Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

20
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness;
according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

Job 17:9Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

9
The righteous also shall hold on his way,
and he…

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Nick,

I figured you would make that claim but what evidence to you have from Scripture?

Nick,

It is credited with cleansing.

The Spirit does the real thing.

Abraham believed and it was credited to him as righteousness. (Genesis 15:6, Romans 4:3 & 22, and Galatians 3:6)

Nick,

In understood you were referring to Jesus words to Peter in John 15:3. The old covenant would become preceded by the new covenant and so that particle element is different between his words in John and Paul’s in Ephesians 5:25-27 and Titus 3:4-6. Faith in God’s word is cleansing in both the old and new covenant so in either case the…[Read more]