Looking to Romans 8:7, and considering that a regenerate person has both a carnal nature and a spiritual nature, it should be evident that every regenerate person is capable of being "enmity against God", so long as the person does not convert, or later falls away. By not converting, or falling away, the regenerate person is wilfully yielding himself as servant to the carnal nature, unto death (Romans 6:16). This is true because, despite regeneration, the carnal man does not change and remains to be "not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be".
So, having been washed by the waters of regeneration and loosed from the bondage of the carnal man, having been delivered from the power of darkness, why would a regenerate person not rather submit himself to the Father and live? Why would he not rather use the power available to him through the Holy Spirit to subdue the carnal man and put on the new man?
John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
It is certainly a hard step to take.
Related passages:
Romans 8:7
Romans 6:16
John 3:19
Deuteronomy 8:5
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Buried with Christ into death, so that we might be raised to life. (Romans 6) |
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| Regeneration Born of Water Eating His flesh Live Forever Solely By Grace |
I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; AND he that believeth on me shall never thirst. (John 6:35) |
Conversion Born of Spirit Drinking His blood Hath Eternal Life By Faith & Works |
| Except a man be born of water AND of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (John 3:5) |
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