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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...

here Paul is describing an unregenerate rather than regenerate person, and when we connect this with “sold as a slave to sin” in v. 14, that would certainly seem to be true, since this pictures an army conquering and enslaving the captured people. The answer is the same as in v. 14, that Paul is encapsulating the raging battle within the believer but picturing it in strong negative terms to depict the weak or “carnal” Christian under the control of sin. The victory can only take place when the person
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