fhansen
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The "law of sin" is not innate to our bodies. And we also don't possess a "sin nature" before or after the Fall. The problem with fallen man is that he's separated from God, from belief in Him, even, let alone subjugation to Him. This is the state sometimes referred to as "original sin", a state realized for all humanity by Adam by his act of disobedience. Once that rift, that separation, was done, all other sin that followed in human history was inevitable. Man had now become lawless in any real sense, following his own 'law" doing whatever was right in his own eyes, becoming his own "god" so to speak. He had lost the self-mastery that was part and parcel of the way he was created, in union with God and subjugated to God.I don't expect those who don't understand what happened in that old world when Satan first rebelled to understand this present world since Adam that flesh was designed for. It represents a state of 'corruption', like Apostle Paul taught. Much of our sin is 'caused' by our flesh body's desires and lusts, even as Paul showed at the end of Romans 7 that he served the "law of sin" in his flesh, but the law of God in his inner man (i.e., spirit-soul).
It's an old tradition of the Jews that think we must have a flesh body in order for our soul to manifest. Lord Jesus showed that isn't so in Matthew 10:28 and in Luke 16 with Lazarus and the rich man in Paradise, and also about the malefactor in Paradise with Him, and even about the "spirits in prison" which He went to hell and preached The Gospel to, and led out those who believed.
I well know some traditions of men today believe anything mention of the word 'spirit' in The Bible applies to an evil disembodied spirit, but that is a tradition of men, and not correct per Bible Scripture.
We begin to regain that control, as we're now enabled by the Spirit, once we enter relationship with God via faith. But the struggle against sin, against the "concupiscence" that seeks to draw us all into sin, isn't over. We're still tempted by the same question that Adam had, "Would life be better without God, would I be better, happier, more fulfilled, satisfied, whatever?" The more we know God the more this question is answered, and the more we love Him as well which then increasingly excludes sin as He because our first love, above all else. And, incidentally, to the degree that we love Him with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength our justice or righteousness would be complete, which is why the greatest commandments are what they are. All of this is possible only via grace, within that communion established by faith IOW. However, weak as we are this is probably not fully achievable until the next life, when we meet Him "face to face".
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