READ ROMANS 7:14–25 Paul then moves to a first-person account of struggling with sin. The passage is hotly debated because, while it sounds like Paul is simply describing his own experience, many commentators believe that he is speaking as a “non-Christian” version of himself, or perhaps a “pre-Christian” version. THEOLOGICAL ISSUES Who Is the “I” in Romans 7:14–25? The debate about this passage stems from the fact that Paul sounds like he is just dropping into a first-person
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