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NASB | Romans 7:17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 7:17 So now [if that is the case, then] it is no longer I who do it [the disobedient thing which I despise], but the sin [nature] which lives in me. |
Bible Question (short): What if? |
Question (full): Gentlemen, Don't think this is stupid, or that I am an idoit. I was thinking about this last night and this thought popped into my head. When Adam sinned, he died, not physically, but spiritually. The Bible says in Rom. 8:3-4. "For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, (4) that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit." I understand this to mean that the law could not be kept in the O.T. (or the N.T. for that matter) because there was no spirit, nor Holy Spirit given to empower man to do so. The requirements of the law are fulfilled in us now because of what Christ did and the work of the Holy Spirit in us in regeneration. Now here is the wierd part. What if man, since the fall of Adam, has no spirit. (Gen. 5:3 "Adam...Begot a son in his own likeness, after his own image," It is not said that Seth was born in the image of God.) The spirit that Adam had received was directly from God, when God breathed into him the breath of life, and I believe that is the part that died, or departed when he sinned. When we are born again, we receive the Spirit of God within our beings, that's what makes us born again. Again, I'm just thinking out loud, I have a very vivid imagination, and sometimes it roams to far away places. What does anyone think about this? later...wdc |