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DWIGHT:
Thanks Kat,

Couldn't have said it better!

Dwight

rocky:

--- Quote from: Kat on January 19, 2007, 06:10:10 PM ---
Hi Rocky,

The inner man in Rom. 7: 22 would be the soul or conscience of man.

mercy, peace, and love
Kat



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thanks Kat, but interstingly; an animal also is a soul, but doesn't have the "inner man" in his conscience, or at least i don't think so.  I'm thinking the inner man is the same thing as the eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil that gives us this inner man. 

Also, I take it you think Romans 7 is paul referring to himself before conversion, if the inward man is the soul?? 

interesting. 

  

Kat:
Hi Rocky,

Rom 7:25  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then with the mind I myself serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

Before we receive the Spirit of Christ indwelling, we are a slave to sin, we serve the law of sin.

Rom 7:6  But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.

As long as we are in the flesh we will have the pull of sin, but it does not rule us, if we have the Spirit indwelling, the law of God then rules in us.

This email from Ray has a good explanation about the law of the inner man.

http://www.forums.bible-truths.com/index.php?topic=195.msg1528#msg1528 -law of mistakes ---

 Explain?
« on: March 26, 2006, 02:18:07 PM »     

To simplify theological words and terms, I sometimes present them with vanacular words and common terms.  Hence to make "the law of sin and death" more understandalbe in every day life, I called it "the law of mistakes"--sin is defined as a mistake or to miss a mark. And the "law of the Spirit of LIfe" I called "the law of perfection." (See Rom. 8:2). When God calls us out of Babylon, He frees us from the law of sin and death by teaching us the truth and by enabling us to obey these truths. We make less  MISTAKES, and we progress toward PERFECTION--"The High Calling in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 3:13).

God be with you,
Ray
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Rom 7:21  So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
Rom 7:22  For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,

Here you can see Paul is aware of his flesh, tho he has the law of God (indwelling Spirit), he still feels the pull of the flesh.

mercy, peace, and love
Kat

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