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    The document discusses the sinful nature of humanity and their inability to understand spiritual things without God. It argues that according to the Bible, all aspects of an unbeliever's being are affected by sin, making them wicked. However, the good news is that through Jesus' death on the cross, our sins have been paid for and we have died with Christ. All of a believer's sin, past present and future, has been taken care of by Jesus' work on the cross. The work is complete and it is through Christ that believers now have freedom and goodness, not by any work of their own.

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    The document discusses the sinful nature of humanity and their inability to understand spiritual things without God. It argues that according to the Bible, all aspects of an unbeliever's being are affected by sin, making them wicked. However, the good news is that through Jesus' death on the cross, our sins have been paid for and we have died with Christ. All of a believer's sin, past present and future, has been taken care of by Jesus' work on the cross. The work is complete and it is through Christ that believers now have freedom and goodness, not by any work of their own.

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    Misanthropy

    And other big words from Catholics


    By John Wilkinson
    But a natural man does not accept the things
    of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness
    to him; and he cannot understand them,
    because they are spiritually appraised. (1
    Corinthians 2:14)
    Humans mucked everything up. But Christ is fixing
    it. said one particular Catholic believer on a
    particular blog
    I could hear my discernment alarms buzzing in my
    head. I knew something was amiss.
    Are we really good? Do we really tout that we are
    fine in the eyes of God? Lets not kid ourselves. In
    the presence of God, the Almighty Holy One, we are
    nothing to sneeze at. The Bible is very clear of the
    state that Mankind is in.
    Biblically speaking, the unbeliever is completely and
    totally affected by sin in every area of his being:
    heart, soul, mind, body, emotions, etc. In this sense

    he is desperately wicked (though not all unbelievers


    are as bad as they can be in the manifestation of that
    wickedness). This is why the Bible says that man is
    deceitful (Jer. 17:9), full of evil (Mark 7:21-23), loves
    darkness rather than light (John 3:19), does not seek
    for God (Rom. 3:10-12), is ungodly (Rom. 5:6), dead
    in his sins (Eph. 2:1), by nature a child of wrath
    (Eph. 2:3), cannot understand spiritual things (1
    Cor. 2:14), and is a slave of sin (Rom. 6:16-20).
    We are evil when we compare ourselves with the
    Holiness of God. For it will be as such when we stand
    before Him in the final judgment. That will be all
    that matters.
    Now for the Good News.
    Jesus Christ took on Sin...and God, recognizing that
    sin, poured His Wrath onto His Son in our place so
    that we wouldnt have to.
    Even more Good News is this...We died with Christ
    on the Cross.
    For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ
    in God. (Colossians 3:3)
    Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we
    shall also live with Him, (Romans 6:8)
    Even better News is our sin was nailed on the Cross
    with Him...

    having canceled out the certificate of debt


    consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to
    us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed
    it to the cross. (Colossians 2:14)
    So, what does that mean to the Believer?
    EVERYTHING!
    That means all my sin (past, present, and future) is
    paid for and taken care of on the Cross. I can now
    live in freedom knowing that nothing can separate
    me from the Love of Christ. Why? Because the Work
    of Jesus Christ on the Cross was complete and
    satisfied by God.
    Therefore, when someone says Christ is still fixing
    it...I say, by no means. The work is complete and it is
    Christ in us who is the only good thing we have in us.
    I think the words of Paul the apostle are appropriate
    here:
    "For the good that I wish, I do not do; but I practice
    the very evil that I do not wish. 20 But if I am doing
    the very thing I do not wish, I am no longer the one
    doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 21 I find then
    the principle that evil is present in me, the one who
    wishes to do good. 22 For I joyfully concur with the
    law of God in the inner man, 23 but I see a different
    law in the members of my body, waging war against
    the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the

    law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched


    man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of
    this death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus
    Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself
    with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the
    other, with my flesh the law of sin," (Romans 7:1925).

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