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Perspectives on Our Struggle with Sin: Three Views of Romans 7 is unavailable, but you can change that!

“For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate.” —Romans 7:15, HCSB Perspectives on Our Struggle with Sin presents in point-counterpoint form three differing views of a Christian’s relationship with the law, flesh, and spirit as illustrated through Paul’s often-debated words in Romans 7. Stephen Chester (North Park Theological...

Christian trying to live for God in the flesh and 8:1–17 to depict the Christian living in the Spirit. This is the basic paradox of the Christian life: in 6:22 the believer is “set free from sin” in order to become “slaves to God,” yet at the same time many who desire to serve God end up defeated and controlled by sin. We live in two epochs, the old epoch of Adam dominated by sin and the flesh and the new epoch of Christ dominated by the Spirit and the renewed mind.99 The conflict is real, but Paul
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