Positional Suffering with Christ Does NOT Exist (Open Q&A)
The definition of the unbiblical concept known as "positional suffering with Christ" is:
Getting saved from hell and then suffering the common hardships that happen to all people, lost and saved alike (i.e. getting your car stolen, or becoming ill, etc).
In order to claim that at the moment of salvation, that every member of the body of Christ is automatically a joint-heir, you have to claim that Romans 8:17 contains the one and only time "suffer" is automatic/positional & also claim that Romans 8:17 contains the one and only time "if so be" is not conditional (and who exactly decides this about these "rare anomalies", and on what grounds?...according to what criteria!?). The Bible uses "if so be" 16 times, and you're telling me 15 times (including 5 times used by the Apostle Paul) it's always conditional except that one and only time that it's supposedly not?
In actuality, "if so be" is ALWAYS conditional & there is NO SUCH THING as "positional suffering with Christ". Once you reckon this indisputable truth, you either have to accept (acknowledge) that a member of the body of Christ being a joint-heir is conditional, or that absolutely nobody is a joint-heir, there is no excluded third option.
Via the CONTEXT of 1 Cor 12:25 we can know that the suffering mentioned in 1 Cor 12:26 is how the church SHOULD (verse 25) optimally operate, NOT how it automatically operates irrespective of our practice/walk done correctly or incorrectly.
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