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Most Evangelicals read Romans 8:9 as a proof-text for the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit. IRom 8:9 KJV:
The interesting thing is that those same people that use Romans 8:9b as a proof text deny the literalism of Romans 8:9a :
The last quote above, taken literally, would teach that when one has the Holy Spirit, that person will never be in the flesh. That person will always be in the Spirit. Is this view align with the rest of Scripture?
Brothers and Sisters, you cannot have it both ways. Either this verse is to be taken literalistically, or it needs to be understood contextually.
Most are unaware that there are three basic views on this text and four views about its application. I am only going to mention the three basic views:
1. This text literally refers to the actual indwelling of the Holy Spirit (Common Evangelical Understanding)
2. This text refers to the "spirit-attitude," or "the disposition of the mind" that should indwell a believer (Albert Barnes teaching this view in his Notes on the New Testament, Romans, p. 182)
3. This text, understood contextually, refers to walking in the Spirit for those who already have received the Holy Spirit (This is the view I believe the context and the Greek grammar supports)
Your thoughts?
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
The interesting thing is that those same people that use Romans 8:9b as a proof text deny the literalism of Romans 8:9a :
Ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.
The last quote above, taken literally, would teach that when one has the Holy Spirit, that person will never be in the flesh. That person will always be in the Spirit. Is this view align with the rest of Scripture?
Brothers and Sisters, you cannot have it both ways. Either this verse is to be taken literalistically, or it needs to be understood contextually.
Most are unaware that there are three basic views on this text and four views about its application. I am only going to mention the three basic views:
1. This text literally refers to the actual indwelling of the Holy Spirit (Common Evangelical Understanding)
2. This text refers to the "spirit-attitude," or "the disposition of the mind" that should indwell a believer (Albert Barnes teaching this view in his Notes on the New Testament, Romans, p. 182)
3. This text, understood contextually, refers to walking in the Spirit for those who already have received the Holy Spirit (This is the view I believe the context and the Greek grammar supports)
Your thoughts?