Paul wrote about not doing what he should be doing, long after being converted.
Hi, watt
Did you know that the verse you are referring to written by Paul was not his current situation? Romans 7:14-25, the span of Scripture you are quoting from were those in the current and past who were
still in the flesh. That showed they still had the desire to sin even though they knew the Mosaic law and knew it was wrong.
But Paul teaches throughout that we are
not in the flesh. He teaches this even in the same chapter! Why not read in context? Look at the same chapter verses 5-6 that IS about Paul's current self. "5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. 6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not
in the oldness of the letter." Can you see that Paul is looking back but presently not in the flesh. If that doesn't convince you, and you are hung up on the word "I" then look and Romans 8:
2 and 9 and see how he is still writing in present tense by is no longer in the flesh.
Romans 8:1-9
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has
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
did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those
who live according to 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, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
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But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.