Originally Posted by Anthony
Where does it say its not talking about the image of God being renewed, why, you are flatout rejecting what the scripture says..BTW, The image of God would be sanctification, do you understand what sanctification implies ? Its christlikeness, the image of God is restored when in regeneration the elect partake of the being conformed into the image of christ, this begins at regeneration or newbirht..we become a new man..
It's back to hermeneutics 101 I guess. The letter to the Ephesians is written to BELIEVERS, chapter 1 reveals how their salvation was eternally foreordained by God in Christ, brought to pass in time by God's sovereign providence, etc., chapter 2 reveals the spiritual condition of all believers, i.e., they are all under judgment and dead in sin necessitating God's sovereign work of regeneration in them which brought them to Christ through faith, chapter 3 reveals the incredible blessings bestowed upon believers having been united to the Lord Christ, etc., and then in chapter 4 HAVING ESTABLISHED all these things, Paul deals with SANCTIFICATION... NOT regeneration when He counsels them to "put on the new man". This counsel is instructional on how they are to live as those who have been regenerated and justified in Christ, not how to be made alive and have the image of God created in them. Get it? giggle

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