argument about how God judges prior to or apart from Christ’s coming and a person’s belief in Jesus. Paul provides testimony throughout his letters suggesting that such theologians are engaging in mere wishful thinking.13 Take, for example, the following verses, also from Romans: “For if you keep living in line with the flesh, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live” (Rom 8:13–14). In the final clause Paul is talking quite specifically about