Featured The Sin Nature

Of course we have a sin nature and I do not need you to explain it, but thanks anyway.

Your the one that lost your way when you do the sin nature only comes through the male foolishness.

 

Paul succinctly describes our sin nature in Romans 7.

 

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Biology tells us that the child receives DNA from both parents.

Having a sin nature means that we can sin and in the case of man we tend to that. Christ could have sinned but He chose not to thus He was sinless.

We are not judged for the sin of Adam, we are judged for our own sins.

 

Based on what? Here you fall back to the RC idea that Mary was without sin.

All children are born without sin but as we grow and become aware of truth and error we fall to error/sin. Christ was born without sin as He grew and became aware He did not fall to error/sin thus was our sinless savior.

 

When you use the words "We Christians can't follow the flesh" are you suggesting sinless perfection?

We know from our own life experience that Christians sin. As we grow in Christ we sin less but we are not sinless.

 

Did not say you are RC? I said you are falling back into the RC view re Mary.

Did not say we could be sinless either. But when you use words such as "We Christians can't follow the flesh" when we know that we sin then it seems like you are suggesting a sinless perfection view.

 

Actually the so called sin nature (this phrse is not in the KJV) can be explained by the absence of the divine nature.The divine nature is the power of God over sin in the weak fleshly body of the person who has been born once in Adam. In him, that is in Adam, he acquires a physical body and at the same time of conception he acquires a spiritual identity from God called the soul. The body of man gives him ability to function in the physical universe but Paul says in one place about the body these words, "in me, that is in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing." God himself has nothing good to say about the flesh. Men must be born again and the Spirit of God then indwells our mortal bodies as both the righteousness that God requires of us and also eternal life, because he is the life of God and he is omnipresent. He can be and he is everywhere he wants to be at one time.

We can have victory over sin through the Spirit, yea, the same power of Jesus Christ while he dwelt in a weak body was, the Spirit, which indwelt in him from his conception. He is the only tripart man who was ever born of the flesh and God was his Father. This is why it is said that Jesus Christ is the ONLY begotten son of God. Adam in the OT was called the son of God (Lk 3:38) but he was a created being and not born of a woman. Now, all men since the cross of Jesus Christ and his resurrection who believes the gospel, recieves the Spirit as the gift of God and is born of God and becomes a son of God and a tripartite man, able to communicate and have a family relationship with God. We cannot occupy the heavenlies in this body from Adam that remains weak and worldly in spite of the new birth so we are waiting with blessed hope for the resurrection and the change of these bodies at the gathering together from heaven and all over the earth and our collective calling out

The created Adam - body/soul/Spirit - image of God = son of God
Adam with sin - body soul - image of Adam = Spirit separated from Adam = spiritual death - 930 yeas later soul separated from body of Adam = physical death
All Adams offspring - body/soul at birth- image of Adam = son of Adam
The birth of Jesus Christ - fleshly body from Mary/soul from God/ Spirit - image of God = Son of God
Jesus with no sin -body/soul/Spirit during his life - image of the Father = spiritual and physical death on the cross = separation first of the Spirit of God then separation of soul from body not because he sinned but because all the world had no power over sin and so they could have his Spirit.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ with the Spirit/body glorified and fitted for heaven -the firstborn from the dead
All the Father's offspring - body/soul/and/Spirit - the image of Jesus Christ who is the image of God. (trinity)

2 Cor 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Christ is the image of God while he is on the earth, meaning he is a tripartite man, the only one since Adam.

He 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:

Those tripart men born of Adam are changed to the image of Jesus Christ who is the image of God. This is the order.

17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

2 Cor 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

The Lord in the passage is Jesus Christ.

All entities that are in favor with God have the trinitarian image. No entity with the corruption of sin have the trinitarian image.

1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

The completion of our salvation is at the end of the age when the church will receive our new bodies and a new location in heaven with our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:4
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

All those who are born of the Spirit are sons of God.

I have not read all the posts in this thread and if someone has already explained these wonderful truths I apologize. If not it should be a help.