Q. 7. Is it profitable to ask a Christian, “Are you dead!” since scripture says, “Ye are dead?” Does it not tend to throw one on feelings and experiences?
A. 7. Such a query to an unestablished soul would inevitably lead to an inward investigation. But he who rests simply on Christ might be led to weigh and learn more thoroughly what death with Christ implies, and what becomes him who died with Him. Scripture assumes that the Christian has thus died.