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Originally Posted by moral necessity I've just heard many use Rom. 6 to prove that sin no longer has control over our behavior. They use phrases such as "the power chord of sin is now unplugged in a believers life." If you ever read Hannah Whithall Smith's book "The Christians Secret to a Happy Life," you'd get the gist of this view. | This would be a quietist view of sanctification, it's not Reformed. A Google search of this author and the movement she was part of should demonstrate that this "method" doesn't work too well. |
Thanks for your thoughts! Can you explain the quietist view a little bit? I've read some about the movement via B.B. Warfield. I just see the view still surfacing very often by a casual reading of Romans 6. The expression "dead to sin" has to mean something, as well as "sin no longer has power over you." And, if it's not understood that he is speaking mainly of sin's power to condemn, by a romoval of us from being under the law to being under grace, one is often left to apply these verses to sin's power to influence us. Though sin doesn't dominate believers as a master, these people tend to go farther and say that sin no longer has any power to influence or cause certain behaviors within us. And, we are then told by them to walk by faith and not by sight according to this truth. And, then Romans 7 ends up being applied to an unregenerate state that Paul was formerly in, or a state of failure that he stumbled in and out of.
Blessings!