What saith the Scripture

 Romans 6:23   "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Paul writes of death 20 times in Romans alone and all in the first eight chapters:  Chapter 1:32; 5:10, 12, 14, 17, 21; 6:3, 4, 5, 9, 16, 21, 23;  7:5, 10, 13, 24; 8:2, 6 and 38.  When using the word death,  is he writing of physical or spiritual death or both at the same time?  If both at the same time would that not mean that both have the same definition?  That would be to say then that when one dies physically he also dies spiritually?  We should know that that can't be true because of Genesis 3:17.  Adam didn't die physically when he sinned but lived some 930 years more Genesis 5:5  So I ascertain that it was an immediate spiritual death and the physical came sometime later.  Also to consider, there is a second death [Revelation 20:14].  To have a second death it stands to reason that there is a firs...

2 Timothy 3:1-9 {Authorized King James version}   "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." I hear those who whine and complain about current events.  Those that do are ignorant of God's Word and what is written there.  "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared  with the glory which shall be revealed in us." Romans 8:18.  How else would God bring in the Kingdom of heaven?  First, the church will be removed, 1 Corinthians 15:51-58 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.  After the church is re...

 Concerning the question that was asked several weeks back, I have this to add.   Genesis 2:17  "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."  Did Adam die that day that he ate thereof? 1 Corinthians 15:22  "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."  Being "in Christ" is the how-to of that verse. 1 Corinthians 15:39-41  "All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of  flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and  another of birds.  There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is  one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.  There is one glory of the star in glory"   Hebrews 11:5   "By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death: and was not found because God translated him: for before his translation h...

Last week asked a simple question.  Did Christ die both Spiritually and Physically or just Physically?  Not to my dismay, I didn't receive on response.   Course I didn't really expect one, so no disappointment.  But the question still stands.  Did however receive a reply to an email submitted to a reliable source that I have listened to for about 2 years.  The source referenced Romans 5:5-10 and 6:10.   I would then bring to light the scripture 2 Corinthians 5:21, and context with the whole of the text 2 Corinthians 5:11-21.  It reads "made him to be sin"  notice the italics are not scripture in the truest sense and without the italics reads "made him sin" or God made Christ sin in my place when I believe the gospel, Paul's gospel.  Christ made sin so that God could judge and condemn sin in the flesh, the flesh of Christ, and being made the likeness of men [Phil 2:6-11] died both spiritually when God turned His back [why hast t...

Different format this week:  question,  Did Jesus die physically and spiritually, or was it only physically when crucified?  If you have a comment, please offer Book, Chapter, and Verse.   Sincerely  James  

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 [Authorized King James Bible]:  "Moreover brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received, and wherein ye stand;  By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you unless ye have believed in vain.  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that He was buried, and that He arose again the third day according to the scriptures." Romans 2:16  "In that day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel" Galatians 1:11-2  "But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.  For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it , but by the revelation of Jesus Christ." What's wrong with the simple truth given to us by God in His Word of what He expects of humanity to prevent humanity, and you from being sep...

 1 Corinthians 1:10  [Authorized King James Version]  "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye speak the same thing, and that  there be no divisions among you; but that  ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment." Read that verse by its self and also in context with the whole.  Is that what the body of Christ is doing today in their services?  Is that we are being told and taught.  When I read Ephesians 4, 1 Corinthians 12:12-134, Romans 12:4, and other texts that we are to be "perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment."  I find that for one to say I'm of this or that denomination is to reject the counsel of God, of being disobedient and unbelieving.  "I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; ...