Jerry Shugart
Well-known member
Earlier, after much discussion, I asked SaulToPaul the following question:
STP answered by saying:
If the members of the church at Rome were not in the Body of Christ then what "body" is Paul speaking of here?:
What Paul tells those in the church at Rome here confirms in my mind that they were indeed saved:
So according to your ideas the people who made up the church at Rome were not saved when Paul wrote his epistle to them and at that time they were not in the Body of Christ.
Is that right?
Is that right?
STP answered by saying:
I can come to none other conclusion having read, and believed, chapter 1.
If the members of the church at Rome were not in the Body of Christ then what "body" is Paul speaking of here?:
"For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another" (Ro.12:4-5).
What Paul tells those in the church at Rome here confirms in my mind that they were indeed saved:
"Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection" (Ro.6:3-5).
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