Bible Question:
Definitions for the book of Romans Greetings all! Does someone have any good definitions for some terms Paul uses in Romans (especially chapters 6 and 7): 1. Old man 2. Sin nature 3. Indwelling Sin Are these all the same thing or are there distinctions between them? |
Bible Answer: 1. Old man "6:6 our old man. A believer's unregenerate self. The Greek word for "old" does not refer to something old in years but to something that is worn out and useless. Our old self died with Christ, and the life we now enjoy is a new divinely-given life that is the life of Christ Himself (cf. Gal. 2:20). We have been removed from the unregenerate self's presence and control, so we should not follow the remaining memories of its old sinful ways as if we were still under its evil influence." (1) 2. Sin nature "Essentially synonymous with "our old man." Paul uses the terms "body" and "flesh" to refer to sinful propensities that are intertwined with physical weaknesses and pleasures (e.g., 8:10,11,13,23). Although the old self is dead, sin retains a foothold in our temporal flesh or our unredeemed humanness, with its corrupted desires (7:14-24). The believer does not have two competing natures, the old and the new; but one new nature that is still incarcerated in unredeemed flesh. But the term "flesh" is not equivalent to the physical body, which can be an instrument of holiness (v. 19; 12:1; 1 Cor. 6:20)." (1) 3. Indwelling Sin "Sin no longer controls the whole man (as with an unbeliever; cf. 6:6), but it does hold captive the believer's members, or his fleshly body (v. 23; cf. v. 18). Sin contaminates him and frustrates his inner desire to obey the will of God." (1) - taken from The MacArthur NKJV Study Bible, copyright 1997 Word Publishing, pages 1703 and 1705. --Nolan |
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