I CANNOT separate flesh and spirit. It makes NO SENSE to me.
Are you saying that Romans 7 and 8 makes no sense to you? It appears to me that maybe the Hebrew mindset is hindering your understanding here.
Romans 7:22-25
(22) For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
(23) But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
(24) O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
(25) I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 8:1-10
(1) There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.
(2) For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
(3) For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
(4) That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.
(5) For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the spirit the things of the spirit.
(6) For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
(7) Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
(8) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
(9) But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
(10) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.
For you Greek scholars out there, please note that Paul used the same word Plato did here in Romans 7 ("nous") when he articulated the Greek dualism that separates the flesh from that part of man that has access to what is really true. As this text continues in Romans 8, Paul relates this Greek word "nous" to spirit ("pneuma") in contrasting flesh and spirit, "there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit." The "nous" is that part of man that apprehends the reality of truth, but it is the spirit of man empowered by the spirit of Christ that gives man power to live what his "nous" has come to understand.
Peace be with you.
David Miller.
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