NIV got so much flack about writing that born again believers still have their old sinful natures, that they revised NIV to say flesh (as almost all translations do.) Check your NIV to see if Romans 6 says your sinful nature died with Christ but in their ZOMBIE THEOLOGY it came alive again in Romans 7. News flash: I really am BORN AGAIN! I am a new creature, partaker of Christs divine nature and He wants my new nature, 100% new, to be ONE WITH HIS. I was created to live in UNION WITH CHRIST. He chooses to express Himself through my new nature. There is NO CONDEMNATION in Christ. BUT BEWARE BELIEVER! NIV still might say you are in a sinful state. Dont teach this error either. You have flesh but you can choose to yield yourself to righteousness or sin. Read this commentary: So we’ve gone from having a sinful nature to living in a sinful state. Big improvement. My earlier point bears repeating: If the flesh is inherently sinful then Jesus was sinful, but it isn’t and He wasn’t. Read the verse above again and you will see that the problem is not the flesh, but thinking about how to gratify the desires of the flesh. See that? Most of our problems originate with our unrenewed thinking, not our corruptible flesh. Jesus had all the same desires of the flesh that you and I have, yet He never sinned. Now Christ is our life (Col 3:4). This means we have the same nature as Jesus. We also inhabit the same sort of flesh that Jesus had. Consequently, we can live the same victorious life as Jesus. How? Certainly not by trying harder in the flesh. No, we live the life we’re called to by renewing our minds and learning to walk after the spirit.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:27:40 +0000
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