Subject: How do we see ourselves? |
Bible Note: P.S. Steve Also, those verses do confirm that we indeed miss the mark quite often but Paul does not call himself a "sinner"; he only admits that like everyone else he battles the old bad habits he'd lived with for so long that are contrary to the word of our God. And John, the same thing, he does not state that we are sinners and if we say we're not we're liars - he says that sin (the natural inclinations to live and behave contrary to God's word) is within us, etc. So my question is why we don't say the same thing about ourselves that the Bible says. Don't you think if we spoke of ourselves more often in the good sense (that is quite Biblical) that maybe the battle against that "old man's" appetites might not appear so daunting? Just a thought Cheri |