To: irishtenor; SoConPubbie
An unregenerated man can choose between sinning and not sinning in any particular circumstance.
A regenerated man can choose between sinning, not sinning, and glorifying God.
Or...
An unregenerated man will always choose sinning in one way or another, because his mind is not, nor can be, set on glorifying God.
A regenerated man can choose between sinning, not sinning, and glorifying God.
Romans 8:6-10
For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
38 posted on
10/23/2008 1:55:21 PM PDT by
raynearhood
("As for you, when wide awake you are asleep, and asleep when you write..." - Jerome)
To: raynearhood
That’s what I said. Remember, an unregenerated man CAN choose to not sin, in a particular circumstance, but it doesn’t make him righteous.
39 posted on
10/23/2008 2:04:14 PM PDT by
irishtenor
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