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Originally Posted by mizpeh
no, man is born spiritually alive because a baby doesn't have the knowledge of good and evil and hasn't sinned therefore they are not separated from God.
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Mizpeh, you propose that the newborn 1) does not possess the Spirit of God, yet 2) he is still spiritually alive and not separated from God.
We are spiritually alive because we have been quickened/made alive by the Spirit of God and have Christ living within us
(Ephesians 2:1,5; Colossians 2:13; Galatians 2:20).
How can a child be united with God spiritually and not possess the Spirit of God? What is the source of his spiritual life, if not the Spirit of God?
Also...
According to
John 3:1-6 the spirit of man needs to be born of God
(i.e., of the Spirit of God). Are you suggesting that a child's spirit is in no need of being born of God? If the child does not possess the Spirit of God as you said, what will quicken his mortal body? (
Romans 8:11)