I've given up looking to the free old-timer on-line commentaries for ideas, because they are often so bad. I mean specifically the on-line commentaries of John Gill and Adam Clarke. Albert Barnes' selections are almost incoherent. Dr. John Gill was a hyper-Calvinist, which skewed his thinking tremendously. Dr. Clarke was a Methodist, so he turns immensely legalistic any time he starts talking about salvation by grace.
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There have been centuries of Christian debate over the subject of Romans 7:7-25. Was Paul describing his experience with sin as a non-Christian, or was he describing his experience with sin as a Christian? This becomes an important question because Christian leaders use various interpretations to support other teachings. Calvinists oppose the first view, partly because they think that the unregenerate cannot think or feel the way Paul describes. Wesleyan and “Victorious Life” teachers say that it’s Paul describing himself as a Christian fighting the power of sin in his own strength, because that fits their template of an additional “higher life” step that chapter 8 allegedly goes on to describe.
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