The New Man in Christ

I have a friend who believes that the two epistles of Peter were written many years apart. if you read them I can see how he comes to that conclusion. 1 Peter 1 vs 1 check out elect and exiles Aramaic to english 1 Petraus, an Apostle of Yeshua The Messiah, to The Chosen Ones and Pilgrims who are scattered in Pontus and in Galatia, in Qapadoqia, in Asia and in Bithunia; 2 Those who have been chosen in the prior knowledge of God The Father by sanctification of The Spirit, for obedience and for the sprinkling of the blood of Yeshua The Messiah. Grace and peace be multiplied to you. 1:2. “sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ.” This sprinkling of the blood of Christ is not referring to the new birth, or the cleansing of sin when one gets saved. Rather, this is speaking of a continual cleansing of sin throughout a believer’s life. The Greek of 1 Peter 1:2 literally reads, “In sanctification of spirit resulting in [eis # 1519 εἰς] obedience and sprinkling of the blood of ...

Is God Stalking You In Genesis God asks a question: (NIV)Genesis 3:9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” Ever since Genesis God has been seeking man. It isn’t that he does not know where we are it is that ever since Genesis 3 man and God have needed reconciling. Jesus Christ reconciled man to God. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: a The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin b for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Now the question ...