The Believer’s Battlefield: Flesh and Spirit (Galatians 5:17)
Deep Dive into The Believer’s Battlefield: Flesh and Spirit (Galatians 5:17)Galatians 5:17 captures the agonizing, irreconcilable warfare within the Christian between the indwelling Holy Spirit and the remaining corrupted human nature, known as the flesh. The Apostle Paul wrote this passage to defend the gospel of justification by faith against two dangerous extremes: the legalism of the Judaizers, who sought to earn righteousness through the Mosaic Law, and antinomianism, which falsely claimed that Christian liberty is a license to indulge in sin.Exegetically, Paul uses the Greek word for…
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