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To: Leonine
Every time we sin, we spit, we mock, we lash.

It's weird, isn't it? When I think about it, I feel awful, and then I forget, and sin again! I'm thankful that St. Paul understood how I feel. See Romans 7:15 "What I do, I do not understand. For I do not do what I want, but I do what I hate." and Romans 7:19 "For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want." and Romans 7:24-25 "Miserable one that I am! Who will deliver me from this mortal body? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore I myself, with my mind, serve the law of God but, with my flesh, the law of sin."

192 posted on 02/21/2004 7:43:23 PM PST by Ohioan from Florida (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke)
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To: Ohioan from Florida
I'm going to see the movie. If the suffering is in my visual memory, then maybe I can sin just a little bit less. Thank you for those sympathetic words from Paul's cathedral of an Epistle.
194 posted on 02/21/2004 7:50:49 PM PST by Leonine
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