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Saturday, 21 June 2008

Sinful Nature by Michael Eaton

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Joel Brueseke said...

Another great post addressing another controversial subject!

I like how the NIV translation of "sarx" is pointed out here. 23 times in the NIV, sarx is incorrectly interpreted as "sinful nature" (I personally counted them all) and I think it leads to a lot of confusion and false doctrine.

I would personally answer the question, "Do Christians have a sinful nature?" with a resounding "No" all the way around. I would say that when Christians sin, they are going against their nature. We have been "born again of incorruptible seed" (1 Peter 1:23), we are new creations (2 Cor 5:17, Gal 6:15), we have become partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4), etc.

When reading the above passage from Galatians 6, I see that Paul is making a case against identifying ourselves according to the flesh. It wasn't our good showing in the flesh that gave us a righteous nature, and by the same token, now that we're Christians, if we happen to follow the flesh, that doesn't change our righteous nature.

Our nature is of God. Not that we are God, of course, not by any stretch of the imagination! But He has joined Himself with us. He is in us and we are in Him and we are members of each other. Our nature is righteousness, because we have become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus (2 Cor 5:21).

So when we follow the flesh - which is not our nature - we are simply following something other than the new nature of who we really are. When we sin, we're simply not walking according to our actual nature. Kind of like, if I get down on all fours and eat dog food and beg for a treat and begin barking, I don't actually have the nature of a dog but I'm not acting like who I really am. :)

As with my comment on your other post, I fully understand how others may agree or disagree with parts or all of what I've said here. But as of this time in my life, I personally do not believe we have any other nature than a nature of righteousness.

21 June 2008 at 23:17

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