Soyeong
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You quoted to me, a verse from rom7:14-24
In those verses Paul states:
The law is spiritual, but I am unspiritual sold as a slave to sin/ breaking Gods laws
Verse14
If Gods laws are not difficult to obey, why is Paul a slave of breaking them?
For I have the desire to do what is good but i cannot carry it out
Verse18
So Paul has the desire to obey Gods laws but cannot.
Again, if Gods laws are easy to obey, why can Paul not obey them?
I do not understand what I do, for what I want to do I do not, but what I hate i do verse15
Once again, why can Paul not obey Gods laws if they are easy to obey?
For what I do is not the good I want to do, no, the evil i do not want to do, this I keep on doing
Verse19
The whole section relates to Paul being a slave if sin/ breaking Gods laws.
He wants to obey them but he cannot obey them.
So once again. If Gods laws are easy to obey, why is Paul sold as a slave to breaking them?
Do you deny that Scripture says that it is not too difficult?
Romans 7:21-25 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Paul delighted in obeying God's Law and served it with his mind, but there was another law waging war against the law of his mind and making him captive to the law of sin. So the reason for Paul's failure to God's Law was not because God many unreasonable demands that were too difficult for him to obey, but because of the law of sin.
For example, if God had commanded us to cross a street, then that would be a task that most people would have no trouble accomplishing, but if their was a football team in the middle of the street with the goal to prevent us from crossing it, then most people would not be able to accomplish that task. However, the reason for our failure would not be because it is too difficult to cross streets, but something was actively trying to hinder us from obeying the command.
So if God had given laws that were simpler to obey, then Paul would have still had the same problem obeying them due to the law of sin. So the solution is not that we need to be freed from laws that are too difficult, but rather we need to be free from sin so that we can be free to obey God's Law, and it has always been through faith in Christ that this is accomplished. Grace is the power of God to overcome sin in our lives.
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