Does this passage describe the true Christian, the unregenerate person, or someone else? Explain.
Does this passage describe the true Christian, the unregenerate person, or someone else? Explain.
The options seem to be that Paul is referring to...
I think that option (3) is correct.
- The struggle of the unconverted person
- The struggle of the weak, immature Christian
- The struggle of every Christian - including the mature.
If I may slightly nitpick your answer. In my opinion the church still has no clue that revival and santification are the same thing. Pentecost initiated, in my view, the greatest outpourings/revivals in history, rivaled only by the days of Moses, and such massive outpourings brought some believers such as Paul to a degree of maturity - a degree of holiness and rest - that you and I can only dream of.
The mature believer doesn't regularly struggle. For example Christ didn't abide in the wilderness of temptation - He only visited it.
"Come unto me, all ye who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me...for my yoke is easy and my burden is light".
When's the last time you woke up from a good night's rest stating, 'Boy, that rest was a real struggle! It was a lot of work!" It's sad that most Christians have no concept of revival and rest. They think that Christ intended the Christian life to be a daily struggle.
I'm not saying your answer is wrong but I think, for the most part, choice 2 is generally a better fit.
Yes. That's what I said. I said Paul rose to a level of maturity "that you and I can only dream of." Like you, I'm in category-2.I struggle against the flesh every day. You don't?
A true, regenerated Christian will still have a choice: whether to live by the Spirit or by the flesh. But he now has the Spirit- communion with God-and therefore the power to walk uprightly.Does this passage describe the true Christian, the unregenerate person, or someone else? Explain.
Does this passage describe the true Christian, the unregenerate person, or someone else? Explain.