Elin said:
Except for the Holy Spirit who gives those in Christ to know what is wrongful.
And are you saying
Paul didn't have it? He
said he understood what was sin by the Law.
You are going in circles.
It's plain to see you didn't read post #34 to you where what Paul said is addressed in context.
Let's have a look at what Paul says in Ro 7.
Previous to v. 7, he states that he
was alive without the law and that
when the law came he died.
Since the law was given long before Paul was even
born,
and since he did not actually
die,
is he speaking idiomatically?
He had
not known sin but by the law.
Like a mirror reveals our
natural face with its spots and blemishes,
so
the Holy Spirit by the law revealed his
natural sin to him (Jas 1:23-25),
gave him a knowledge of it, which led to repentance
when he compared his
heart to the law.
In the law
the Holy Spirit mirrored to him that, even
without any sinful
act,
concupiscence (lust) in the
heart was sinful.
The Holy Spirit made him
aware in the law of his
indwelling sin, which he knew
nothing of before.
Unregenerate (natural) Paul had been blind regarding his original corruption,
and he remained in the dark until
the Holy Spirit by the law showed it to him when he was reborn.
The Holy Spirit showed Paul in the law what sin really is, how it is
exceedingly sinful (v.13).
For while Paul was a Pharisee, he was very sure in his confidence of his goodness ("
I was alive").
But in reality he was without the law, he did not understand its spiritual meaning,
it was in his head, but not in his heart, he had a mental apprehension of it,
but there was no
power of it in his
heart.
But when he was
reborn, "
the commandment came" in its
power to his heart, not just to his head,
"
sin revived,"
appeared,
the Holy Spirit showed him what he had never seen before in sin,
his
naturally (unregenerate) corrupt bias
toward it,
"and I died," the Holy Spirit convincing him with such power that Paul, the obedient Pharisee,
was not righteous, but just the opposite, in a state of sin, and in spiritual death because of that sin.
So
powerful was this revelation by
the Holy Spirit to Paul that it stood his former theology on its head.
We can see this in his presentation of it in
Ro 3:10-20, 5:18-19, 7:7-13, 8:7-8; Eph 2:1, 3, 5; Col 2:13.
So
Ro 7 is idiomatically dealing with the
unregenerate Pharisee Paul
before he was born again (
regenerated) by
the Holy Spirit,
who then
revealed to him by the law his previous
original innate corruption,
indwelling sin, and
natural bias toward it,
which is why we have such
strong presentation of man's innate corruption in Paul's writings.
This is in no way contrary to the Holy Spirit giving you to know in your heart what is wrongful.
In fact, rather than being contrary to what Paul said, it is a powerful example of just that.