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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
What about nothing good dwelling in our flesh (Romans 7:18) - where did that "no good thing" come from?
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The "no good thing" is sin.
Sin indwells us. Sin entered, as Ohio alluded to from Romans 5, through the offense, through the disobedience.
17 For if by the offense of the one death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
18 So then as it was through one offense unto condemnation to all men, so also it was through one righteous act unto justification of life to all men.
19 For just as through the disobedience of one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the One the many will be constituted righteous.
We are never, ever told that sin or anything entered "through the fruit" or "through the tree". It's the act, the behavior, the actions,
the disobedience that's the source of all the problems. The sin that indwells us is there because of the choice Adam and Eve made. I know one of Lee's favorite words was "element", trying to pass off somehow that "sin" or "Satan" was an "element" inherent in the tree, but the verses to back that thought up are simply an echo into silence. They are not there. Sin isn't something outside of us that is separate from us that we can ingest. It's not part of the tree. Sin is our actions and our thoughts and our behaviors.