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Admitting We Don't Know

eddif said:
The natural fallen man wants credit for being like God.
There is a limit to natural man. Oh, man has words at his disposal; a very dangerous part of being made in the image of God. With words Babel was started. God saw the need to confuse our language. We still try and function on our natural level. My flesh is almost on the animal level. I can train my flesh, but it will still be flesh. I accept forgiveness.

The good news: Through the work of Jesus a new birth is possible. Now all I (the new man)have to do is confess sins and allow the Holy Spirit to fight against the flesh from the inside out (way oversimplified).
So the flesh is weak, and a new greater force begins. A work I can not claim credit for. Jesus died for sins. The Holy Spirit works inside the new man of the mind (my favorite words, but maybe not everyone's).

So I have a wretched part, and a newborn part. No wonder some of my thoughts have to be crucified daily. If I do something correctly, God gets the credit for good.

And that is about all I know about that (lol).


eddif
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Good, thoughtful post! :)
 
eddif said:
The Holy Spirit works inside the new man of the mind (my favorite words, but maybe not everyone's).
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The mind is where the new nature resides. When we get born again, we get the promise of a new nature, a mindset of the Spirit that then controls the desires of the flesh, and what Paul calls 'life and peace'. But it seems we wait around waiting for the flesh to change without knowing that walking by the Spirit is all about a change of mind about sin. But God has a way of changing our minds about sin, doesn't he.
 
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