Romans Chapter 6

Romans Chapter 6

What shall we say? Should we continue in sin so grace can abound? (Ooo la la… sounds good to me!)

God forbid. (Boo!) How shall we, that are dead due to sin, live any longer? (Healthy eating, exercise, and lots of laughing until we die peacefully in our sleep!)

Don’t you know? (Duh, I just said I did… oops, Romans again, not me). So many were baptized in JC’s name and in his death? (Gross, being baptized in death sounds awful!) Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death (uh, getting worse), so like Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of his papa, it will be the same for us and we’ll walk in the newness of life. (Yuck! One life is plenty for me thanks!)

If we’ve been planted together in the likeness of his death (do we all have to be crucified?), so too will be bear likeness to his resurrection (are all our physical bodies going to go to heaven to? What about if you’re old, do you get to be restored to youth? Or if you die in a horrible maiming accident, do you have to keep those scars like JC kept the gouges in his hands according to John?)

Knowing that our old man is crucified with him (who’s old man? Does that mean someone’s dad? Or is it another old man I’m suppose to know about?) , so that the body of sin might be destroyed, so that we shouldn’t serve sin. (Were we ever really SERVING sin?)

He that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we’re dead with Christ, we believe that we’ll also live with him. We also know that Christ was raised from the dead and didn’t continue to die. Death didn’t have dominion over him any longer.

When he died, he only died because of sin one time. Now that he lives, he lives with his dad, God.

Similarly, you can anticipate the same fate. So, don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, and don’t give in to those tempting sinful lusts (like debate? Too late for me, I think).

Don’t yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin (um, does he mean, what I think we means here? Dirty.) But instead, give yourself to God as those who have risen from the dead and use your members as instruments of righteousness for God. (I don’t think I have the member he’s talking about, so what should I do?)

Sin won’t dominate you because you’re not under law, you’re under grace. (Again, can we ignore all laws, or just Moses, or what if we believe in JC?)

What then? (Indeed). Shall we sin because we aren’t under the law? (Well?) God forbid. (Again… boo)!

Don’t you know that become the servant of whatever you obey, so if you obey sin you are it’s servant, likewise with obedience and righteousness. (I’m not sure I want to be obedience’s servant. Seems taxing).

But thank God that we who were the servants of sin have obeyed the doctrine that has been delivered (Paul’s? I don’t think the other gospels existed at this point in history) to you. Now we’re all made free from sin and have become the servants of righteousness (better than obedience I guess).

Paul speaks after the manner of men because of the sickness of their flesh. The problem is their members have become servants to uncleanness and to iniquity. Even now he wants them to yield their members to righteousness and holiness. (Paul is obsessed with men’s private parts, I’m really getting tired of it).

When you all used to be the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. What did you get out of all those things that you are no ashamed of? (I learned valuable lessons about consequences, and I also learned about what things are really important to me.) The end of those things is death. (I’m cool with that, honestly.)

But now, being made free from sin, you become servants to God. You get to be holy and get everlasting life. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through JC.