"ForestGreenCook,
[I usually agree with most of your posts, ]
We should agree more than disagree
[ but we , evidently, differ on the the depth of the depravity of some of God's regenerated children. Just because we have been born again, does not mean that we do not still carry the baggage of our fleshly nature with us. This battle, as Paul explains in Romans 7, within us is much stronger on the natural side of some of us, than others.]
I agree rom. 7 is speaking of a Christian. There are still motions of sin in our body that we are able to mortify by the Spirit,Rom8:6-17
[Sometimes when the scriptures talk about "the wicked" it is talking about the unregenerate, as in Psalms 73, but most of the time, I believe, it is referencing the regenerate. As awful as the description of the people are in Romans 1, I believe it to be referring to the regenerated people of God.]
I do not agree with this. We are not under the dominion of the flesh, but rather under the dominion of the Spirit
[Some of the wording in Romans, verse 18 & 19, to me, does not harmonize with the description of the natural man in 1 Cor 2:14.]
This is the portion of Romans 1 I was thinking of. It cannot be descriptive of a Christian;
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
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