Paul writes an simple letter in Romans 7 on a complicated subject:
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.
17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.
18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire
to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
19 For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do
-this I keep on doing.
20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is
sin living in me that does it.
This is so complicated, but the more I read it, the more I find the truth in the midst of complicity.
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This makes me feel a little better about how much of a screw up I am.
Keep those blogs coming.
By the way, is complicity a word?
if simplicity is, than so is complicity.
dude ... that's a great passage, and your right - complex, but like you said, the more you read it, the more it starts to come into focus. keep chewin.
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