RE: [TruthTalk] The Humanity of Jesus

[ShieldsFamily]

I see your point, Judy.  However I believe differently.  I believe that you can be tempted to hate, or to lust, but YOU decide whether or not to entertain those thoughts and emotions or not.  It is your decision, and therefore a controllable event.  Otherwise those poor adulterers are not guilty of “being in love”—they just couldn’t help themselves.  We ARE able to choose the emotions we will entertain in our hearts, and then express through our behavior.  Refusing to entertain them is called dying to self.  izzy   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Judy Taylor Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 3:26 AM To: truthtalk@mail.innglory.org Subject: [TruthTalk] The Humanity of Jesus   Izzy wrote:  Can you explain what an “inheritance in sin” is exactly? Does it mean you are guilty before God, even if you have not actually committed a sin?   jt: I think defining sin is probably an issue here also.  I don't see sin as action oriented only.  It is that but includes attitudes and thoughts of the heart also. The works of the flesh in Gal 5:19 include both ie:   "Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like"   It takes a work of grace and a circumcised heart to walk free from the above which is the natural affliction of everyone born into the first Adam because this is who we are and we are by nature children of wrath until we are born again and partake of and begin to walk in the divine nature.   judyt