Theological question/belief

[missdrummond]

I want to understand a theological statement made to me. I have had this said to me in the past, but I am unsure where it would be in the Bible. It seems to me a hold over from early charismatic teaching that was borderline faith teaching (know your authority as a believer) What is the statement? It came up in small group. I wasn't challenging

Comments

[rockyrockstar]

Well, I don't know exactly how to parse out those sentences, but I think the tension you are hitting is the indicative/imperative relationship. In Paul it is mostly commonly seen in "you are...in Christ", followed by a "therefore..."

Consider texts like Romans 6:1-11, cp. 12, or Colossians 1-2, cp. 3

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[kelglitter]

I'm not familiar with that either, so I Googled the phrase "know who you are in Christ," and I found a bunch of "name it and claim it" kinds of healing/prosperity stuff. The basic premise being, if you're sure of who you are in Christ, you can know what you're "entitled" to and not settle for less. The problem with this stuff is that there is no theology for failure and hardly any realistic theology for success. They are indeed taking good verses you should know out of the Bible, probably even in a context that sounds good, but they're doing so with the wrong beginning world view