What I want to do I don't : What I don't I do

[posthuman]

Because an man cannot do something without first agreeing to do it.

That doesn't seem to be what he says here

Romans 7:20
Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

he says if he is not the one who wants to sin, it's not him who does it, but sin dwelling in his flesh.

 

[TheDivineWatermark]

^ "THE SIN [singular] dwelling in me"


[for the readers: note the distinction I'd put in Post #4 - https://christianchat.com/threads/what-i-want-to-do-i-dont-what-i-dont-i-do.189327/post-4114492 ]

 

[Chris1975]

That doesn't seem to be what he says here

Romans 7:20
Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

he says if he is not the one who wants to sin, it's not him who does it, but sin dwelling in his flesh.

Great question! This talks to the topic of Repentance. It is someone who has changed his mind. We find John the Baptist preparing the way for the ministry of Jesus Christ through the ministry of repentance.

Paul refers to it as follows:

Acts 19
4 Then Paul said, “John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.”

There are two potential states in a person.

• Flesh wants and Mind Wants (non repentant)
• Flesh wants but Mind doesn't (repentance)

Under both scenarios Flesh still dominates (see Romans 7v23 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.)

Repentance is not what saves you (Christ does) but repentance is a precursor to Christs forgiveness. It too is a precursor to living life in the Spirit. The corollary - if Paul (his mind) wanted to live according to the flesh, then he CANNOT be in a position to be led by the Spirit.

That's why it says we are to SET OUR MINDS on the Spirit, and not on the Flesh

Romans 8
5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

 

[TheDivineWatermark]

^ Okay, so where did those in 1Cor3 have their minds set (as regenerate persons)? :

https://christianchat.com/threads/what-i-want-to-do-i-dont-what-i-dont-i-do.189327/post-4115037

1 Corinthians 3 -

1 And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as fleshly—as to infants in Christ. 2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, for not yet were you able. In fact, now you are still not able, 3 for you are still fleshly. For where jealousy and strife are among you, are you not fleshly, and are walking according to man? 4 For when one might say, “I indeed am of Paul,” but another, “I of Apollos,” are you not fleshly?

 

[Chris1975]

Okay, so where did those in 1Cor3 have their minds set (as regenerate persons)? :

https://christianchat.com/threads/what-i-want-to-do-i-dont-what-i-dont-i-do.189327/post-4115037

Where do you think?

 

[TheDivineWatermark]

^ Okay, so this is saying that it is possible for regenerate persons to "walk according to the flesh" (not that this is to be the "norm" for believers/saints/the-regenerate/saved-persons, but that this is indeed a possible state/condition to be in, AS believers/saints/the-regenerate/saved-persons), b/c those in this passage were indeed regenerate/saved-persons.



[the distinction between "standing" and "state"... or, you could say, between "[legal] position" and "condition"]

 

[eternally-gratefull]

Another unscriptural response from you. Your Red above.

1 John 5
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.

The very same John you like quoting - here is another of his quotes. Yet you say they are. Because you say so. Ignoring hundreds if not thousands of scriptures.

Why do you CONTINUE to deny the scriptures?

Yes they are not burdensome

but the flesh still lives, and we still war against the flesh. The less mature we are. The harder the struggle

yet christians (like Paul) struggle with it all their life

we all have our besetting sin, pauls besetting sin was pride, his thorn in the flesh was given many believe to keep his pride in check. Because it would have destroyed his testimony.

once again, good to know you have arrived, Your the only one

 

[eternally-gratefull]

You yourself have effectively stated that Paul was struggling in his sins. Your very posts here. Is Paul then contradicting himself when he says that those who live according to the flesh will die? Is he contradicting himself when he talks about putting to death the misdeeds of the body.

Why do you overlook all of the calls to holiness scriptures?

Maybe you can correct Paul if you meet him one day?

I never said in his daily walk,

you continue to twist people’s words.

You have to live with your slander, how you do is beyond me,

 

[eternally-gratefull]

You can be my accuser on that day. We can meet the Lord on that day and He judge between us. Looking forward to it.

When we meet the lord. You will get a rude awakening, like many pharisees, who think they arrived, yet failed to repent. Not only of their sins, but their refusal to listen and willful twisting of people’s words.
ps, I do not have to accuse you, you accuse yourself every time you twist or misrepresent what another person said