...When I said Romans 10:9-10 was addressing unbelievers, you claimed it was addressing believers and was talking about when we receive our new glorified bodies. You said that, didn't you? Why do you keep trying to avoid admitting that?
Jerry is not actually off in that, and it kind of reminds me of that point in Exodus relating Israel's very physical salvation before its Gentile enemies: Pharaoh and His mighty army.
Where Israel looks physically cut off at the Red Sea - Exodus 14:
13. And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and
see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
14. The LORD
shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Compare that to this - Luke 19:
41. And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
42. Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least
in this thy day, the things which belong unto
thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
43. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
44. And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
In this, Jerry was right about an aspect of Romans 10 not often considered, but applied its principle as to Israel's physical salvation as if it were what Romans 8 is asserting.
Of course, he may now deny that, though there it is on that thread where he did just that.
Anyway, one aspect of the Apostle Paul's profound sense of grief as to the Israel of his generation is their having forfeited their peace - their physical deliverance from their coming destruction at the hands of their enemies because God, in His wrath for their blasphemy, has turned from them:
1 Thessalonians 2:
15. Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
16. Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
In this, the Apostle Pauls' is a profound sense of grief and depression over his beloved nation that he has only the truth of Israel's yet glorious future to comfort him by - Romans 11:25-36.
Still, allow that to sink in a moment. Actually pause for a moment to imagine that many of your people will soon be physically wiped out because God has given them over to their own destruction in His wrath. How would you feel?
Jerry had a point as to this physical salvation peculiar to... God's peculiar people - but boy did he screw it up, for his same old attempt to draw glory to himself by twisting that into some other argument he is determined to shove down the throat of anyone who so much as says "hi," to him... to their everlasting regret..
You need to suffer this infirmity in the flesh of yours; you need to suffer with Christ in it, Jerry; not lord it over others.
For your are both negatively, and severely, impacting your reigning with Him.