I apologize for not using scripture to back up a personal experience I know is true but there are so many interpretations that the message is lost. The Gospel is about the kingdom of God and there is a barrier or veil in the mind to knowing God as He requests. Only Jesus has become immortal and His mind is the mind of an immortal and this must be found to be regenerated to immortality. We must take on His nature.
Ephesians 3:18, Paul prays that we might "grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the
love of Christ."
Which you can not do in the flesh in this life... hence the need as Paul tells us we will put on these things AFTER the Resurrection. I simply do not understand why you insists on debating this. If you already possed it then saying you need to put it on is nonsensical.
John 4:24(KJV)24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
John 1 (KJV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
John 1:14 The Word
(TORAH) became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Isaiah 55:8-9 (NKJV)
8 “For My thoughts
are not your thoughts,
Nor
are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
9 “For
as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
Jeremiah 24:7 I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.
Ironic that you cite these passage of scripture while ignoring when Jeremiah clearly defines what the new covenant is... the Torah written on the believers heart and in their minds
John 14:7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."
Titus iii.5, R. V., "Not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and
renewing of the Holy Ghost."
The scriptures confirm that what is written by me is true depending of course who interprets it. It is not about letters on a page but by the Spirit. The Love of the Son with His nature, when found is energized by the Spirit of God.
Yet in your fleshly desire to do away with OBEDIENCE you throw out Adonai's Statues, decrees, commandments and law. Yeshua saves us from the Law of "SIN AND DEATH" that we might be FREE to walk in righteousness and obedience. There is NO MIDDLE ground here. One either chooses to walk obediently or one does not. Messiah's sacrifice is what saves us but the choice to be obedient is up to us.
Ephesians 3:19 (KJV) 19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Romans 5:5 (NKJV) 5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Mark 12:30-31 (NIV)30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’a]">[
a] 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’b]">[
b] There is no commandment greater than these.”