Paul wrote that to Christians, believers, not unbelievers. Don't you know that?
Of course. Even as with the son of God Adam was warned not to transgress and die to God.
The warning to all souls created by God, is that the wage of iniquity is separation from His Spirit of life. The promise in Christ Jesus is that no other creature can make us transgress and separate ourselves from Him.
Adam tried to blame Eve, and Eve tried to blame the devil, but nonetheless they died by their own transgression and were driven from the garden by their own unrepentance.
No quote from Scripture, not Scripture.
It does not add nothing but ourselves can separate us from his love.
Who can? No other creature can.
If anyone wants to believe that by their faith alone, their own soul shall not die by their own iniquit, then that have that right of freewill in this life.
With the grave we are judged by our works, not our own beliefs and doctrinal words.
"Even when we are unfaithful, he remains faithful."
Of course the Son remains faithful to the Father. He doesn't forsake the Father to walk with unfaithful children of disobedience.
2Ch 24:20And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
James 1:13 does not say that our sin separates us from God.
No, James 1 doesn't. Spiritual death by transgression and separation from God is in other Scriptures, beginning in the garden.
James 2 says anyone transgressing the Lord has no faith in Him, but only in themselves. Such as believing they are not separated from God by their own iniquity, as others are.
Rom 2:3And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; Who will render to every man according to his deeds: For there is no respect of persons with God.
He is explaining how sin is birthed.
Correct. Man concieves lust in his own heart against God. And by lust man commits his own sin and dies to God.
Even as lust can only be in the heart of anyone that concieve it for ourselves, so death of the soul can only be by our own lust of heart.
No other creature can separate our souls from God, but only by our own lust alone. Some even try to blame God for their lust and sin, as though He makes us that way from the womb.
Jas 1:13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
If we are disobedient and continue to be so without remorse or repentance, we will be disciplined and corrected by him---just as a father disciplines his children and corrects them, but does not stop loving them.
Children of disobedience are not chasticed as sons, but are reproved as all disobedient children of men to repent.
2Sa 7:14I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
God's love toward all men remains the same, even to them that forsake Him, but His longsuffering mercy for the disobedient to repent ends in the grave.
It would help if you knew that Jesus did not leave us as orphans
Jesus forsakes none of His faithful and obedient brethren and sons. No matter what temptations, tribulations, persecutions other creatures may bring against us. Sons that remain obedient unto the end inherit the promise of resurrection unto life
Heb{5:8} Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; {5:9} And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
Instead of depending on yourself
Trusting in ourselves, is trusting in our faith alone to justify us with God, even while disobeying Him and crucifying His Son again to ourselves.
and telling everyone else they are damned if they don't also depend on themselves. Now, I know you have used those exact words, but that is what it amounts to.
Of course you mean not used those words. And, of course, your interpetation of my words is as bad as your intepretation of God's words.
Being separated from God is being at enmity with him because we are sinners.
Exactly.
We still have his image and likeness.
Not so. Sinners still have freewill to do good deeds are evil, as they desire at the time. But sinners by lust of heart have corrupted the pure spiritual image of God, that we are all created with.
Only by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, can any sinner now repent of deeds, and by the Spirit have the corruption of lust circumcised from the heart. That's when we become all new creatures of God, created again in His own good and pure image.
We simply don't do what we are supposed to do as that image bearer.
Sinners don't, and the spiritual image they bare is not of God nor Jesus Christ.
It does not say anyone in Christ will be taken out.
Scripture does, even as the Jews that forsook Him on a cross.
Rom 11:19Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
That would be Christ paying the high price for their forgiveness and then having it no longer do so.
Even if some repent not to be forgiven and washed clean with His blood, His death, burial, and resurrection are not in vain.
Rom 3:3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written,
If we do evil against the Lord and crucify Him again to ourselves, His faith and salvation is made of none effect to us alone.
It says do not grieve the Holy Spirit and it also says they are sealed unto the day of redemption. So grieving him does not break the seal.
Psa 78:40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
Grieving God is turning back from God, and tempting His righteous wrath.
Heb 3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
Only the hardened hearts that repent not, grieve God in His wrath, and He declares they shall not enter into His rest.
The same warning to God's people in the wilderness, remains the same after His death, burial, and resurrection. The manner of warning and law changes from old to new, but not the Lord's judgment against transgression and disobedience.
Heb 2:2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
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