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NASB | Romans 7:19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 7:19 For the good that I want to do, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. |
Subject: Paul's evil practices Pre or PostJesus |
Bible Note: Greetings John! I wasn't impressed my friend! :-( Allow me to demonstrate why I wasn't impressed. First of all, the article almost completely ignores every verse I have been citing. It does refer once to Romans 6:6. Here is what it says. "How can this be? Rom. 6:6 explains: "Our old man was crucified with Christ, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin." The two-nature view above tends to say that the Old Man is only judicially dead, that he still exists, and must be reckoned as crucified daily by faith. But Paul states that our Old Man (our former pre-Christian nature) dominated by sin and hostility to God and His Law, has been done away with through the work of the cross and its application to us by the Holy Spirit in the new birth. Now the Christian is a New Man: "If any man is in Christ, he is [not has] a new creature (2 Cor. 5:17). "Since you have laid aside the old man with its evil practices, and have put on the new man who is being renewed . . . ." (Col. 3:9-10). No longer are Christians slaves to sin as when they were Old Men. Now they are New Men, dominated by slavery to God and grace and righteousness and delight in his Law. The Old Man is dead.[4] Our slavery to sin is broken. However, the sins which once dominated us remain in the imperfect New Man." So, I am not a slave like when I was the Old Man, but the New Man is still a slave? :-( Christ killed the old man, but left the sin? This seems like double speak to me. Secondly, the article makes the same mistake that many do when describing the slave to sin in Rom. 7:14-25. It speaks of carnality and immaturity, and human experience. However, Rom. 7:14-25 doesn't say, "I fail more often than I want or should." It doesn't describe an immature believer. The person in Rom. 7:14-25 NEVER DOES GOOD, not once. He always fails. Is that true of our experience? Is it true to the description of a Christian in Rom. 6 and 8? No! The article concludes that sin will always be a part of our existence, we will never be free of it. Is this what Rom. 6 and 8 says? I do not understand why we can't simply take what Scriptures says at face value! It says that we are no longer slaves to sin. This view says that God has started to set us free, but has left the job unfinished. :-( Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |