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“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...

law and of sin in Romans 7 is the truth of his life as a Pharisee as he now sees it, but not as he would have seen it at that time. In Philippians 3 Paul also remakes his biography but is more paradoxical, describing the past in terms he would then have recognized in order to emphasize the gulf between his past and his present. Here the specific element of biographical reconstruction is the revaluing of his law observance and other aspects of his previous life. He once counted them as gain but now
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