FALSE REASONING ON ROMANS 6:7

Interpreting Romans 6:7 as literal instead of figurative,                                                                                                                                         makes Adamic death equal to Christ's ransom, thus negating his death.

Interpreting Romans 6:7 as literal instead of figurative,                                                                                                                                         makes Adamic death equal to Christ's ransom, thus negating his death.

How is reconciliation with God made possible?

Devil's Advocate:

By having a clean standing due to one's sins being wiped out. Adamic death wipes out sins,                                                                                      therefore Adamic death is the means by which reconciliation with God is made possible!!                                                                                            Corrupt reasoning folks - do some research in the Scriptures, NOT the literature! 

Without the Literature to guide we'd be lost, you were talking about the new Sports Illustrated edition weren't you.

The answer is in the previous verse, Rom.6:6. The "died" being spoken of there, is the death of our former course of conduct. When we repent, or turn around, dying to our former course, we are then aquitted from those former practices.

According to verse 6:

"Our OLD PERSONALITY is impaled (killed) along with him, that our sinful body might be made inactive (dead)"

See Eph.4:22

"that you should put away (kill) the OLD PERSONALITY which conforms to your former course of conduct, and which is being corrupted according to his deceptive desires"

If we do so, we are aquitted.

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There 's a great breakdown on this passage/verse in Romans here:

http://reasoningwithjws.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.html

The passage says nothing about guilt for sin being blotted out at death.  What it says is that bondage to sin ends at death.  There is an extended metaphor throughout the chapter of sin personified as a slaveholder.  People only attain freedom from sin through death; just as a literal slave receives manumission through saving the wages paid by the slaveholder.  Death absolves one's responsibility to sin.  That's entirely different from absolving one's responsibility to God for one's deeds.  Paul's point is that Christ affords the believer the chance to attain freedom from sin without having to literally die; participating in Christ's death absolves one's debt vicariously.  In essence, Christians change slaveholders.  Having purchased their freedom, God becomes the new slaveholder; Christians become slaves of God.  And since the Law pertains only to those held in bondage by sin, Christians are not indebted to the Law either.