Obviously Paul was saved at some point. When he wrote about the evil he was compelled to do, he is speaking of his past life. Daaaa! It is you guys who misapply scripture daily, misleading the sheep and watering down the real power of salvation and I am revealing that. Shame on you too!
Wrong. Both the end of chapter 7 - where he writes of his doing evil and serving the law of sin - and the beginning of chapter 8 - where he writes of the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, having delivered him from the law of sin - are written in the present tense. Doing evil he doesn't want to do is taking place although he has been delivered.