not what Paul means; instead he is referring to “two realities on which individuals can base their existence, two directions toward which they can move” or, perhaps better, two mutually exclusive spheres of existence or environments that constitute exclusive ages or world orders. And, as R. Jewett says, cited by Bruce, “the flesh is Paul’s term for everything aside from God in which one places his final trust.” The believer is not composed of two natures but of one nature, once fallen and now renewed,
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