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Originally Posted by BaptistFundie
God created the human race as pure and sinless. Why would you think that God made us sinners?
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The great confusion over the law is what its purpose is, and its purpose is to teach mercy, love, hope and realization.
That realization is that in one's study of the law, it convicts all of us wholley, it is redundant in showing human failure to the point that our guilt convicts our conscience in such a way as to feel so much shame that we should not EVER judge anyone.
The law teaches mercy, and we are taught this over and over, that the law comes down to mercy, and loving others enough to not judge them because we know just how found wanting we are.
There was a man cursing king David and David's royal guards were about to kill the man for his audacity to even speak to the king.
David said," Meh, just let him curse, maybe in doing so, my own sins might be given a beeak."
That is the essence of the law, the realization that EVERY HUMAN deserves death so much so that it makes them live in mercy instead of judgement.
Romans said, " O what a wretched man I am, I want to do good, but I do bad instead, who will save me from this body of death and evil?
It says that although he sins, it is no longer him doing it.
Roman's is describing a person as two people.
Romans 7
14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 16If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 18For 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.
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20Now if I do that I would not,
it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22For I delight in the law of God after the
inward man: 23But 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. 24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25I 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.
Who is sinning?
The author of Romans is telling you that he wants to do good, but he sins instead.
Who and what is the inner man THAT CANNOT SIN?
Who and what is the outer man who ALWAYS SINS?
Do you think that you are going to heaven because you didnt sin as much as others?
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