This is why you are to reckon yourself dead to sin. This is why you are not to regard the flesh, when speaking of righteousness. You are to present yourself as an instrument of righteousness, Holy and without blame.
And it has nothing to do with you, so you can not boast.
What I am showing is the gospel of grace given to Paul for us. It is in direct contention with what I just posted for the circumcision. If you continue to say they are the same, then I know you are outside the faith and have evil motives. Like Nang.
You MADers desperately need to understand the Gospel of Paul. I know you hate allegedly big words, but it's about ontology. Ontology is about BEING; it's about existence.
The Gospel of Paul is about our prosopon (outer man) versus our hypostasis (inner man). Paul forgave in the prosopon (person) of Christ (2Cor 2:10). God accepts no man's prosopon (person) (Gal 2:6).
If one doesn't know the difference, then one is always referrring to both at the same time and they're distinct. Sin is in the members, which is the soma (body) of the old man (prosopon). The new creature is the (inner man) hypostasis, which is translated into Christ and seated in heavenly places.
MAD doctrine doesn't understand this essential truth of ontology, being just another form of Judaism and works-based soteriology. Not because of depending upon works, but because of emphasizing the prosopon (outer man) as the same as the hypostasis (inner man). It's putting new wine in old wineskins.
It's that simple, but the simplicity has been clouded by needless complexities.