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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Brett Burrowes explains how the idea of an autonomous, independent sinful nature/self is possibly wrong:
https://brettburrowes.wordpress.com/...and-the-flesh/
F. F. Bruce, the well-known British evangelical scholar, writes in his commentary that this means that those who sin have their spiritual source in the devil. So the origin of all sins (and not just Adam’s!) is in the devil himself and not in a defective or corrupted human nature.
Now I think about it, the bible does not say "resist your sinful nature", it does say however "resist the devil, and he will flee". (James 4:7). |
Evangelical,
Where does the devil flee to when we resist him? Does he exit the flesh and then come back later that night? Does he find a hidden corner of the flesh where we simply don't notice his indwelling of our beings? How can he both abide in us, and flee?