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Originally Posted by Aquila
Reverend Blume,
I'll illustrate my point...
Can a married couple be "Christian swingers"?
If so, why?
If not, why not?
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You are consistently missing the forest for the trees.
Obedience-demanding laws that are carried out through human will power making oneself do good and avoid evil are correct in what they say are good and evil. LAW shows what sin is.
But law keeping is not the answer for those things.
The common response to what I am saying is exactly what Paul faced, and what caused him to repeatedly write hypothetical questions to his words with answers showing how the people easily miss this truth.
Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? GOD FORBID!
I am saying the GOOD that Law tried, but failed, to cause man to do, and the evil which law tried, but failed, to get man to avoid are things GRACE empowers us to not do. Grace agrees with law.
What do you think Paul meant when he said Grace establishes the Law -- while having said Law was weak through the flesh to accomplish its ends?
But we are empowered to do good and not do evil ASIDE FROM resorting to rule books to obey. It is simply a reliance on the Spirit to empower us to do good. Relying on codebooks is walking after the flesh to serve God. Reliance on the Spirit to empower us to do His will, without resorting to rulebooks, is walking after the Spirit to serve God.
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