Paul describes this warfare of the Christian whose desire is to please God. The desire is there. in Romans 7:21-24, “So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being, I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging…
The war that began at Eden when Satan deceived Eve is a war that the people of God continue to wage. A great victory has already been won by Jesus Christ. Satan is defeated, and our personal victory is assured if we fix our eyes on the captain of our salvation. For God’s people to…
Another theological debate that we often encounter during this discussion of the first sin introduced to the human race is the doctrine of personal election. To argue that God’s sovereignty requires His choice of certain individuals to be saved and others to be lost overlooks two truths. First, it ignores that man shared God’s image…
When God created Adam, He created a being neither good nor bad but with the capacity for either. Creating man in His image gave man the power to choose His own path, to create his own world, so to speak. The theological debate on Calvin’s inherited depravity assumes that Adam was created sinful or that…
After God had created all things, verse 31 of the first chapter reads, “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.” It was given to man to rule the animal kingdom, to have dominion over all creatures. It was also given seed to plant vegetation. All of it was given to man’s…