Of course the flesh is dead because of sin, I agree with this.24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Your on the right track but you have not mention paul's solution. You quoted it but I don't think you have acknowledge it. In that how does Paul subscribe in putting the old man in the flesh the one we are bound to till we die, how do we put him off and yet live sin free.. I embolden it for you..
With my mind I serve the law of God meaning with what he can control he serves God, even if his body is doing the evil he does not want to do. by loving God and loving the law and hating evil you are full filling what paul tells us to do here and in Chapter 8. where st of you simply miss the boat is you assume the body and mind must work together here in that the mind hates sin and the body stops sinning.. that is the lie of free will. because clearly in that last line Paul re-enforces the idea that while he controls his mind and makes his mind serve God he still does not have complete control over his body.
Again Paul's words/word of God, not mine. you can not forsake 1/2 of what is said to maintain doctrine. Rather, doctrine must be changed to encapsulate all that is said!
Do you acknowledge that those who are in the flesh cannot please God?
Do you agree that those who are in Christ cannot sin? See this is not speaking of the body of the flesh, but of the spirit born of God that cannot sin.
Man is still part old man of the flesh (dead), and part new man of the Spirit (alive), because we have not put off this body of this death yet, but some fine day we will depart this body and be with Christ where he is.
But to God, he does not see us as in the flesh, that is not pleasing to God, God sees us in the Spirit.
And we are spiritually perfected if we are in Christ and have no sin. But the body part of us still sins, but that is corrupt and dead anyway and is going to be dust again.
Romans 8:5 exposes a truth many people miss. Those who live according to the Spirit are those who are alive to God being new creations in Christ and they do not live according to the flesh. This is not some personal daily decision you make, as you are either in the flesh and dead or in the Spirit and alive having eternal life, you live according to the Spirit so then you walk according to the
Spirit, because he has made you born of God. All such persons are spiritually minded and of God, not carnally minded and of flesh. You are either carnal and dead and at enmity with God or are spiritual and alive and have peace with God through Christ. For people born of God, Christ delivers them from the sins of the body of this death as Paul says in Romans 7.
Romans 8
3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 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.
6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies [d]through His Spirit who dwells in you.
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