Why is my question antagonistic ...I think a very fair question.
Actually it was not. The post was on Romans 7 and 8. Since you could not deny the truth of the post you asked this. If you can't see where it is antagonist there is no hope for you
I keep wondering why a perfect, sinless person like yourself cannot clearly state that they are sinless?
Are you sinless?
Being delivered from the "law of sin and death" in no way means Paul was proclaiming to be sinless.
Erroneous, crazy, foolhardy dogma I guess is the price to be paid for not keeping scripture under lock and key.
No one said he was. Maybe you ought to actually read what you reply to. Here it is again with Et's comment that instigated the post you responded to.
eternally-gratefull said:
The apostle John said if we (including himself) say we are sinless we are decieved
If John can’t do item and Paul admitted he could not do it’s far be it from me to think I am better then they were. They were apostles!
So in response to ET saying Paul said he could not live without sinning the following was shared
Where did Paul admit such? Chapter 7 in Romans? You are mistaken my friend. The context continues in chapter 8 where Paul through the Spirit speaks of being delivered from the Law of Sin and death, condemning sin in the flesh that the righteousness of the law be fulfilled in us.
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and
bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall
deliver me from the body of this death? 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. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin
, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
(Rom 7:23-8:4 KJV)
In chapter 7 Paul claimed to be in captivity to the Law of Sin and cried out who shall deliverer me from this Body of Death. Then in chapter 8 proclaims deliverance from the same that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin
, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.