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I agree that we can't serve 2 masters
We can't be for God and against God at the same time.
Correct. Our heart cannot have both God and the devil. We cannot have both the righteousness of God and lust of the world.

Jas 1:13
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.


We cannot say we have God, and also have lust of the world tempting us to sin against God. We either have the true God or the sinful devil, not both.

If we have Jesus Christ and still have our own sinful lust, then He is a liar and does not come to take our own sin. But instead leaves us with our own lust, even as do all false gods and christs of the world.


Adam did not have indwelling sin; for God made Adam after His own character, pure and upright. There were no corrupt principles in the first Adam, no corrupt propensities or tendencies to evil. Adam was as faultless as the angels before God's throne.
Correct. Jesus Christ still creates all men and women good, the same today and forever as in the beginning. He likewise makes all natural flesh the same mortal as in the beginning.

Jesus Christ is come in the naturally mortal flesh of all men, who are created by Him.

Angels and men only sin by concieving our own lust against God: Lust of heart against God remains the origin of all that have sinned against Christ. First by angels in heaven, and now by men and women on earth.

These things are inexplainable for us
I've given the Scriptures explaining it. If you'd like to challenge my explanation of the Scriptures given, I'd be glad to see it.


because we only know life with sin.
This is only partly true. I'll clarify: All any person born into the world has ever known, since Adam first transgressed and brought sin into the world, is a sinful world. Not the good world created by God without sin.

And we all have contributed to the world's sinfulness, by sinning ourselves and transgressing as Adam. So that now the whole world lies in wickedness:

1Jo 5:19
And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

However, we in Christ Jesus also know, that all people do not still have have a sinful life ourselves. We know the the world is still sinful, and is not the kingdom of heaven, but all in the world are not still lusting for the world:

2Pe 1:3
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

2Pe 2:20
(We) have escaped the pollutions of the world through knowing the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
Jhn 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.


All men have sinned, but since Jesus died for sins and resurrected for our justification, all that repent do His righteousness.

Eph 2:1
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

1Co 6:11
And such were some of you: but now ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Rom 10:16
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report…For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar;


Though the many still continue sinning against Christ, that does not mean that all people on earth are still sinning with the world.

Whether there be many or only a remnant few that repent, Jesus Christ still comes to take away the sin of world from the hearts of us that repent, and gives us power to do good and not evil.

Here is another explanation of Scripture, that makes sense from the above teaching of Scripture:

Psa 51:5
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.


By Christ, We are all still shapen and concieved good in the world, as in the beginning. But since the transgression and unrepentance of Adam, we are all now shapen and concieved in a world of iniquity, and not into the garden of God with the tree of life.

Jhn 1:2
The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made…That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Rev 4:11
Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

Jesusw Christ still creates all people good in His image, and still lightens every one coming into the world, though it now be sinful and not the garden of God.

The world we now come into is sinful, but we do not come into this world sinfully.
 
Before sin entered the world, man had communion face to face with God. After sin man would die if he seen God face to face.

Jhn 1:18
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

Adam talked with the Lord on earth walking in the garden. Moses spoke with the LORD face to face in the wilderness.

But no man has seen God at any time, except the Son who was with God in the beginning, and now sits on His right hand up high.



God still talks with us but sin stops Him from talking with us like He did with Adam before the fall.
True. Concieving lust and sin against God, separates us from God. However, God is still talking by Scripture to all that sin: Repent.



Having the selfish lust rise in your heart or fallen nature, does not make you a sinner... choosing to obey the lust does.
Already given the Scriptures, that having sinful lust is sinning against God.

Jas 1:14
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust

Sinful lust is the temptation of sin.

As I've also shown by Scripture: The temptations of lust to sin, are not the temptation trials of the saints to learn obedience.

Adam did not have the internal evil nature we have today.

Adam was tempted from outside.
As the scriptures shows, all transgression is by the temptation of lust in the heart. Adam was the first man that transgressed, because he was the first man to concieve his own lust against God:

Gen 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.


All his descendants thus acquired his nature, it being transmitted by each parent in turn.
Already given the Scripture of God rebuking the lie, that sin and guilt are inherited as by natural seed of man.

We all have inherited a sinful world from the womb, but we only transgress by our own concieved lust to do so after the womb.

Jesus is the only man on earth to have kept His heart pure and free of sinful lust from His youth, and obey the Father through all things unto the end:

Luk 2:40
And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.

Heb{5:8}
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
 
We can weaken its hold and cause the flesh to become less powerful by ignoring it or putting it to death.
Man is a soul in the flesh, not flesh with a soul. We hold and move the body. The body does not hold and move us.

We hit with our hand. Our hands don't do the hitting. We are guilty of killing with our hands. Our hands did not kill.

Our flesh and blood and skin and bone does not think, lust, nor doing anything of it's own. Only we living in our body, do the thinking, lusting, and deeds with the body.

Col 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
We mortify the deeds we do with the body, we do not kill the body in suicide. We do not fight the body, but fight our own spirit against abuse of the body.

Eph 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
 
So what is left for you except the expectation of hellfire?
You can wish for it, but only I can ensure it by continuing to sin with the transgressors against God and Jesus Christ.

Or, I can believe the Scripture and ensure I do not transgress with the world, by doing only good with my faith in Jesus.

2 Peter 1:3
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.


Rev 14:12
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Rev 12:17
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Psa 119:158
But I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they believed not thy word.

Psa 37:38
But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.