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NASB | James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole Law but stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of [breaking] all of it. |
Subject: Joe, who is ya, man? |
Bible Note: Bill: The NT was written as instruction. The point I was making was that this whole idea of the old self being non-existant is so predominant in your view that the associates of Paul responsible for planting the church in Ephesus (most likely Priscilla and Aquilla -- Acts 18) would have been pretty bone-headed not to have even mentioned it to the converts there. What verse are you referring to when you say that Christ was slain before the foundation of the world? I agree that God has created a new self for us. I also agree that there are vestiges of our old nature present, which is what we have to "put off." There is nothing you wrote in that last paragraph that I have a problem with. What I just don't get is your refusal to acknowledge that part of us just simply isn't righteous in practice. It is more than the fact that we are walking around in a biological construct (our bodies) that is defective despite our spiritual renewal. Every time I commit a sin, it is not because despite my attempts to fight it that I can't help myself. At the point in time that I sin, I do indeed place serving myself above honoring God. My problem is that I don't hate sin as much as God does, despite my regeneration. --Joe! |