If you’ve been around church teachings for any length of time, you probably are familiar with the words of lament that Paul expressed in Romans 7, talking about how he agrees that God’s law is good, but also recognizes that within his own self (his flesh)… there is ‘no good thing’. We read in those passages (13-21) how he seems to ‘want to do good…but he does not’, and that the ‘evil he doesn’t want to do…he does’…because of the ‘indwelling sin that is in him.’ I only say we are familiar with those words because that is how many people are made to feel better about themselves and their ongoing sin problem…because if Paul continued to live as a ‘sinner’, who were we to think we could do any better? There’s just one problem with that ‘spin’ on scripture- Paul was NOT suggesting that we will continue to live as sinners ‘saved by grace’ as many presume, or that he did himself. Paul was merely expressing rather well, the conflict we all find ourselves in when we hear ‘the law’, an...