Are you speaking for yourself or God??
Both.
Romans 7:14-25, PAUL says, "For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am of flesh, sold into bondage of sin.
For that which I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing that I hate.
But I do the very thing I do not wish to do, I agree with the law,confessing it is good.
So now. no longer am I the one doing it, but sin that dwells within me.
For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the wishing is present within me, but the doing of good is not.
For the good that I wish, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not wish.
23... I find then the principle that evil is present within me, for I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.
24...WRETCHED MAN TAT I AM !! Who will set me free from the body of this death (Sin)??
Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord ! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh, the law of sin."
As this is a recollection of Paul's unsuccessful attempts at keeping the Law of Moses before his conversion, it is appropriate that he answers the problems he laments from his past.
First, the
law of sin in verse 23 has been eliminated in Romans 8:2..."For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus
hath made me free from the law of sin and death."
This illustrates that Paul's Rom 7 lament was for a past condition.
Second...the
body of this death from verse 24 has already been dealt with in Romans 6:6..."Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him,
that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin."
There is no "body of this death" to mourn for anymore, as it was crucified with Christ at Paul's baptism into Christ's death in Rom 6:3-7.
Romans 7 is a short recap of Paul's life before conversion, and Rom 8 launches his walk in the Spirit instead of in the flesh.
If God speaks so much about forgiveness, and He does, Matth. 7-14, forgiving others as God forgives you, Matt. 6:14-15, 1st John 1:9,
so then, why does God need to speak so much about forgiveness if believers never sin?
Not everyone reading the bible has turned from darkness yet.
The Advocate is available to all who will turn from the darkness and unto light, both now and in the future.
Non-believers can't be forgiven, so I guess that leaves WHO...?
Non-believers CAN be forgiven, but if they never hear that they can be forgiven they will never make the attempt to find forgiveness.
God doesn't just judge the act of sin,...
You have been lied to.
Peter writes..."For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?" (1 Peter 4:17)
All men will be judged for the deeds done in their bodies.
...but he judges the intent and the heart of the Christian who sins.
Non-believers have no access to forgiveness from God, that's what makes believers and non-believers so different - PRAISE GOD!!
What is the difference between a sinning believer and a sinning unbeliever?
Nothing, as neither believes John 8:32-34..."And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin."
Servants of sin either don't know or have decided to ignore the truth Jesus referred to.
No man can serve two masters.
He will either serve God or he will serve sin.
