I don't get how some of you can't see that we are saved by his life? All as you say is that we are reconciled by his death and that you are saved by his death but I don't hear the other half of that verse very often, that we are saved by his life?
The only way we are reconciled to God is because Jesus was dead to this world and he brought us the ministry of reconciliation, the gospel. And we are reconciled to God by believing in him and turning to God. But we are saved by his life, by having his life within, and we are being saved everyday from sin by the Christ through the holy spirit giving us the strength overcome and that's only it we are living by the will of God, then we will be living it out and partaking in the sufferings of Christ and you will know Gods true people, by their fruits and you will Christ in them by their lives. They will be living in a new and living way through Christ.
Many talk about the death of Christ, what about his life? As this is what Paul says that we are saved by, and through faith by the grace of God!
Without Christ living in our hearts, we're dead in sin and living by the will of our flesh under the control of Satan.
If Christ is truly in our hearts, And we are led by the spirit, then we will be turning from sin and living by the will of God and laying down our lives to bring his love and the life Christ to others.