[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 4/1/2005 8:30:06 AM
Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John wrote:
>... the conflict of the old and the new continues.
I think we agree on this, but there is an intensity of conflict that
arises
when the old man is resurrected which is completely unnecessary and not
part
of God's immediate will for the believer. Of course. That seems to
be the very point of Eph 4:20-24.
John wrote:
>One is decreasing and the other is increasing.
This statement is where you begin to depart from the truth. The old
man is
not decreasing. It is to be reckoned dead. As Barth said, this is to
be
done at once. The old man, in this text, is alive and
functioning. I say "decreasing" because of Pauls contrast of the old
and the new (v v 22,23). The issue between the two natures is, in the
Ephesian text, a current problem. These are those who have received
the truth, the Spirit and the accomendating association of Christ,
Himself. It expresses the circumstance presented in romans 7:25 -
8:1. That the old man is to be "reckoned dead" is precisely correct
!! His (the old man) is a consideration of the mind of the
believer. That does not mean that it does not continue to be a
problem !
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The old man is reckoned dead, but the sorry so and so just won't stay
buried. All I have to do is hit my hand with a hammer or have a wrench
slip and bust my knuckles and the old man, with his old language jumps
right up.
Terry
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