Cheryl Schatz

Gazza,
You said:

I would have thought the usage of the present text in Romans 6:11 is exactly in line with what I was saying about Eph 2:5. In the Romans passage Paul tells the believers to “count themselves dead to sin” what does this mean – they should not let sin reign in their body, they should not offer parts of their body to sin and sin should not be their master.

The problem that you have is that Romans 6:11 shows that we “are dead” right now. It is present tense. Because we died with Christ and we raised with Him, we are dead to sin. But Eph. 2:5 is also the same. It is a present “dead”. It isn’t something they “were” in the past, but present tense. Right now, dead. How does Eph 2:5 correlate to Romans 6:11? Is it that we are dead to our sins and alive with Christ? The tense is not different. Thoughts?