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So, which is it? Is the Christian dead or alive? It depends. The Bible says we are both.
The Christian is Dead
- Colossians 2:20 - "If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations"
The Christian is Alive
- Ephesians 2:5 - "even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved"
- Colossians 3:4 - "When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory."
The Christian is Simultaneously Dead & Alive
- Romans 6:4 - "We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life."
- Romans 6:8 - "Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him."
- Romans 7:4 - "Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God."
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Galatians 2:20 - "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."
- Colossians 3:3 - "For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God."
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