Then I will reword the question. Answer now:
If a person in Israel today covets will he suffer the wages of sin? Yes or no.
Are they, or are they not, in Christ?
That is crucial.
You are playing word games. Paul specifically listed covetousness as sin that keeps one out of the kingdom.
1Co 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
And what does verse 11 say?
"And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God."
We who are in Christ are no longer; unrighteous, fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, homosexuals, sodomites, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, or extortioners.
In Romans 7 Paul states that sin dwells in the flesh, so when sin occurs it occurs in the flesh; it does not occur in the spirit which is in Christ.
If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that
it is good. But now,
it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but
how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will
to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not
to do, that I practice. Now if I do what I will not
to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
-Romans 7:16-20
And so that which sins cannot inherit the kingdom of God: "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption." [1 Cor. 15:50]
The term incest is correct.I believe I started calling it adultery in a later post, but that might be inaccurate if the father was dead as you speculate.
It is only incest if it is his biological mother. It is not.
Ephesians 2:12-13
12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. |
And?
The Bible says Noah built the ark by faith. Would Noah have been saved by faith if Noah had refused to obey God's commandments?
Hebrews 11:7
7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. |
If Noah had refused to obey God's commands toward him it would have shown he did not have faith in God.
But because he had faith he was saved through his actions.
Now, if you can show me a verse stating Noah was saved by faith and nothing else I will concede that point.