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To: ebb tide
Y'can't ... but sin is not necesarilly a decision so much as a condition of the flesh

Sin, as a concept is perfect ... as is holiness

Perfection cannot exist in an imperfect world ... thus the need for salvation

Being born again AND a sinner is not a contradiction ..


Romans 7:14ff

14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

4 posted on 03/23/2015 4:39:04 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: knarf
Sin, as a concept is perfect ... as is holiness

Sounds like you a fan of the heretic Luther.

Let me rephrase the above, in Luther's "world":

Sin, as a concept is perfect in it's holiness.

8 posted on 03/23/2015 4:58:24 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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