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How do you stop sinning.
So the quote in question is not a bible quote at all, but a doctrine taken from a bunch of bible verses taken out of context, that just happen to be written in a biblical format to fool an unexpecting person into thinking this was a direct command from God/The bible???
Romans 7 (the whole chapter in context) seems to dispell the idea that we can live a sin free life. After all if Paul one of the ' Super Apstoles' could not live without sin then how are we expected to?
(to save a little time I will start in verse 7)
7 You might think I am saying that sin and the law are the same. That is not true. But the law was the only way I could learn what sin means. I would never have known it is wrong to want something that is not mine. But the law said, You must not want what belongs to someone else. [
a] 8 And sin found a way to use that command and make me want all kinds of things that werent mine. So sin came to me because of the command. But without the law, sin has no power. 9 Before I knew the law, I was alive. But when I heard the laws command, sin began to live, 10 and I died spiritually. The command was meant to bring life, but for me it brought death. 11 Sin found a way to fool me by using the command to make me die.
12 Now the law is holy, and the command is holy and right and good. 13 Does this mean that something that is good brought death to me? No, it was sin that used the good command to bring me death. This shows how terrible sin really is. It can use a good command to produce a result that shows sin at its very worst.
14 We know that the law is spiritual, but I am not. I am so human. Sin rules me as if I were its slave. 15 I dont understand why I act the way I do. I dont do the good I want to do, and I do the evil I hate. 16 And if I dont want to do what I do, that means I agree that the law is good. 17 But I am not really the one doing the evil. It is sin living in me that does it. 18 Yes, I know that nothing good lives in meI mean nothing good lives in the part of me that is not spiritual. I want to do what is good, but I dont do it. 19 I dont do the good that I want to do. I do the evil that I dont want to do. 20 So if I do what I dont want to do, then I am not really the one doing it. It is the sin living in me that does it.
21 So I have learned this rule: When I want to do good, evil is there with me. 22 In my mind I am happy with Gods law. 23 But I see another law working in my body. That law makes war against the law that my mind accepts. That other law working in my body is the law of sin, and that law makes me its prisoner. 24 What a miserable person I am! Who will save me from this body that brings me death? 25
I thank God for his salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So in my mind I am a slave to Gods law,
but in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin.
The problem with sound bit theology is that if you take one verse from here and one verse from there, and make the bible say anything you want. That is why context is key. It is harder to bend the words of the Apostles to your own doctrine when one looks at entire chapters and books as their references. So be wary of 'theology' that has a one line/one verse quote, paired with a paragraph of 'explanation' then the doctrine moves on to a different book chapter and verse, takes one more line, and again has a massive explanation of how the two verses fit together. Even though the apostles did not originally write them in this way. Do you think the Apostles of Christ are so ill equipped that they need one of us to take apart what they have carefully written, chop it up into one line sound bits and pair it with ideas not consistent with the original context?
No of course not. That is why we must speak where the bible speaks and remain silent where scripture is silent.
In so far as leading a sin free life. According to Paul in the Book of Romans (The Whole Chapter is dedicated to this idea, no commentary needed!) It is not possible to live a sin free life. That is literally why Christ had to die for our sins.
