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Originally Posted by moral necessity So, we are now ashamed of our former sins. Are you saying that we no longer have inward cravings towards our former sins after we are regenerated? | Yes, we should no longer crave sins. That doesn't mean that we will not fall into them, but as regenerate believers we crave holiness...though we struggle with sin. That's kind of the point of regeneration...being given a new life, one that craves to seek after the Spirit and not the flesh. |
I agree that we should no longer crave sins, but isn't it true that we still do? What do we do with the newly converted alcoholics who still violently tend to relapse into their old habits. I've just seen churches excommunicate them under the banner of "willful sin and rebellion" due to their take on Romans 6. I see the church not being a hospital to these people, for many there have never been where they were and have never had their bodies suffer under that sort of enslavement before, and so they minister to them as they would their own selves.