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Originally Posted by Diesel Stanford
I am not a sinner. There is no such thing as a Christian who is still a sinner. 1 Timothy 1:15 is horribly misinterpreted in which Paul talks about his past life before he became a Christian. In 1 Corinthians 6:11 he says we are sanctified.
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Originally Posted by Diesel Stanford
We have to stay biblical. Paul also - correctly - accused to Corinthians of sinning (1 Corinthains 3:1-4), yet him as well as them were Christians. Shocking, but true. I do not agree with what the Apostle Paul said in 1 Timothy 1:15 tho. There he has missed the mark, but he was being humble (1 Peter 5:5). I think James 5:16 sets a great example here. God bless
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What do you make of Romans 7, then? Did Paul "miss the mark" here too? Is this another instance where the Holy Spirit, who inspired all Scripture, "got it wrong"?
Rom 7:14-25
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.