Comments on: The Conflict Of Two Natures https://cocbuffalowy.com/2019/04/the-conflict-of-two-natures/ Bible Answers to Spiritual Questions Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:21:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Jim https://cocbuffalowy.com/2019/04/the-conflict-of-two-natures/#comment-1915 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:21:43 +0000 https://cocbuffalowy.com/?p=5857#comment-1915 In reply to Mike Windsor.

Hi Mike. Thanks for your comments and the encouraging words. Keep up the good work for the Lord. The world needs it! God bless.

]]> By: Jim https://cocbuffalowy.com/2019/04/the-conflict-of-two-natures/#comment-1910 Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:55:40 +0000 https://cocbuffalowy.com/?p=5857#comment-1910 In reply to Mike Windsor.

Thanks Mike for your very nice comments. I of course agree with you on all of that. And so thanks again, and may God bless you and yours.

]]> By: Mike Windsor https://cocbuffalowy.com/2019/04/the-conflict-of-two-natures/#comment-1909 Sat, 06 Dec 2025 01:09:37 +0000 https://cocbuffalowy.com/?p=5857#comment-1909 Hello Brother Jim. I am a Bible class teacher and preach on a few occasions. I appreciate this excellent lesson from Romans. I agree with your points. Paul wanted to keep the old law when a Jew. He wanted to keep the law of Christ as a Christian. In both, he knew God’s law was right, but in both, he fails to live perfectly. Only in Christ is mercy and grace found. Someone with improper motives will try to find a way to live ungodly and receive forgiveness. They are fooling themselves. God knows the heart. However, Christ was made our High Priest and was tempted in all points as we, yet without sin. He sympathizes with our weaknesses. In Christ as we strive to walk according to the Spirit, we receive grace when we fall short.

Heb 4:14-16
14 Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

God Bless,

Mike Windsor

]]> By: Anonymous https://cocbuffalowy.com/2019/04/the-conflict-of-two-natures/#comment-1887 Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:31:38 +0000 https://cocbuffalowy.com/?p=5857#comment-1887 Good read.

]]> By: John Wesley M https://cocbuffalowy.com/2019/04/the-conflict-of-two-natures/#comment-1697 Sat, 28 Sep 2024 18:13:19 +0000 https://cocbuffalowy.com/?p=5857#comment-1697 Genesis 1:27 says; “And God created man in His own image; In the image of God, He created him; Male and female He created them.”
I believe God created male and female in His image, i.e, nature. They have a nature that God has. The spirit of man totally bears divine nature. The spirit of man has a body with all the parts. The spirit of man has to be make use of the physical body to get its works done. So God created a physical body that is completely compatible to the spirit of man. All the spiritual parts that the spirit of man has, the physical body has. So it is easy for the spirit to use the physical body parts that are compaitlble with its parts to get the things done in the physical world.
God put the same attributes that are in the spirit in the physical body, i.e., in the mind (soul). When a situation arises, the spirit tells the mind to acts according to its dictates. Eg. If you see a poor man your spirit tells your mind to have pity on that poor man. Spirit feels compassion on the poor and it activates the compassion that is in the mind to show it physically.
Actually man is a spirit being, but since God has put him in a physical world, God has prepared a physical body that is compatible to the spirit. Spirit gets its workd done in the physical world through its physical body parts and mental attributes.
Originally man has only one nature in his spirit and in his body. At the Fall, the total attributes of man, spiritually and physically got corrupted. Spirit and mind has become one nature, i.e, fallen nature.
When a person accepts Jesus Christ as His Savior, his spirit’s nature was renewed to its original status. But the attributes that were compatible with the spirit’s nature which got corrupted are still in a fallen state. The spirit of man tells the mind to think just like it thinks. But the mind says ‘no’. That is where the conflect starts. But slowly the psirit gains control over the mental attributes and that is what the Bible calls sanctification. Total sanctificatin is not possible in this world. But to a greater extent the mind undergoes transformation becasue of the spiriti’s control over it every day.
These are my views after struggling to understand the battle between the spirit of man and his mind. Can you please give me correct understanding wherever I went wrong in my understanding. Thank youk.

“Male and female”, is our physical nature; But “In the image of God” is our spiritual nature.

]]> By: Jim https://cocbuffalowy.com/2019/04/the-conflict-of-two-natures/#comment-1357 Thu, 25 Jan 2024 01:52:40 +0000 https://cocbuffalowy.com/?p=5857#comment-1357 In reply to Jason Daniel.

Hi Jason, thanks for your comments. As for what Paul was referring to, he was referring to the “battle” within all of us, between the desires of the spirit, and the desires of the flesh. It’s not directed at any one part of Paul’s life as opposed to another. The very same “battle” has gone on within everyone who has ever existed. And concerning “born again” believers, which of course refers to all Christians.. Of course Christians still have two natures. As long as we have a physical body, we will have a physical nature. And we will also always have a spiritual nature. That’s simply how God has created us. Your body doesn’t cease to exist when you become a Christian, thus you have a physical nature for as ling as you live on this earth. After our physical death, we will then be 100% spiritual. Even when we are raised at the resurrection, and have been given our new spiritual body, we will still be purely spiritual beings. But until then, we all have a physical nature and a spiritual nature, just like God created us to have. Thanks again for your comments. Would you like to study this further and examine some more scriptures pertaining to this subject? (or any subject) I would be more than happy to study with you.

]]> By: Jason Daniel https://cocbuffalowy.com/2019/04/the-conflict-of-two-natures/#comment-1350 Sun, 21 Jan 2024 16:41:08 +0000 https://cocbuffalowy.com/?p=5857#comment-1350 In this passage, Paul is not referring to his life as a Christian, but to his life as a Jew, before he met Jesus, when he was trying to fulfill the law, and was unable to do so. Think about it. In Romans 5:17 Paul says we will reign in this life through Christ Jesus. But now he’s telling us we are in slavery to sin? In Romans 5:1 he says we have peace with God. But now he’s telling us we are miserable and wretched? In Romans six, he tells us several different times in several different ways that we are free from sin, not slaves to sin, but slaves to righteousness, that sin will no longer be master over us, and that he who has died is freed from sin. But now he’s going to tell us we are sold into bondage to sin? Paul has been talking about the law (of Moses) during all of chapter 7. If you read the context, you will see that it is all focused on the law. In this passage, towards the end of chapter 7, he is describing his own inability to keep the law as a Jew , who was obliged to keep the law. He just told us previously in this chapter that we are not under law, that we have died to the law, and previously in chapter 6, he told us that we are not under law, but under grace. So when he speaks about the law in this chapter, contextually, you have to remember that we are not under law. The context indicates that we this passage is referring to the law of Moses. And finally, if we can actually be set free from what Paul is describing in the end of Romans seven, then why do we live as if it’s our destiny? He says, wretched man, that I am! Who will set me free from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Jesus Christ, our Lord! If Jesus Christ, our Lord can set us free from this horrible condition, why do we read this passage and interpret it as the normal Christian life that we are all destined to have to live through until we get to heaven? If Jesus Christ can set us free from this horrible condition, why do we insist on continuing to live like this and justifying it by saying that it was Paul’s Christian experience? If Jesus Christ can set us free from that condition, then let’s live free! And let’s embrace the new nature that we have, as
born again believers do not have two natures, but only one. Our old man was crucified with Christ, that the body of sin might be done away with that we should no longer be slaves to sin Romans 6:6. It only makes sense that Paul was describing himself before conversion, and that Jesus Christ is the answer to overcoming the condition that he had lived in.

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