us a high view of our body as the God-intended vehicle we express ourselves through. Rather it is the body dominated by sin, because sin uses our body for its own evil purposes. It is our former self, the person we used to be in Adam. What was crucified with Christ was not a part of us called our old nature but the whole of us as we were in our preconversion state. The only way to be justified from sin is that the wages of sin are paid, either by the sinner or by the God-appointed substitute. How