(14) OUR SINFUL NATURE

God created animals with a body and a soul. They had no spirit whereby they could commune, or even be conscious of God's existence. The soul is the life of the body and God gave them a nature to satisfy their needs. God gave them Instinct to cope with environment. They don't know that they will die. Man is body, soul and spirit -(1 Thess. 5:23). With a spirit, we have a higher intellect and a God conciousness. God gave Adam and Eve instructions of what not to do. To rebel against God is sin. With sin comes consequences. There are consequences for sin and consequences for doing good. Good is better. God gave man the ability to choose. God is Spirit and Satan is spirit. (1 John 4:1)- Test the spirits whether they be of God. If we are misled by a false teacher, or preacher/priest, it's our own fault for not checking it out in God's word, and the Bible is the only word of God. Jesus is the Word of God and through the Holy Spirit He inspired men to write. No man takes precedence over the Bible. It's a sin to not study the Bible -(2 Tim. 2:15). In our spirit, God gave us a conscience. If we haven't hardened our heart (spirit), our conscience can be our guide to discern between right and wrong, but the Bible is our roadmap to heaven. (Rom. 7:8-10)- Without the Law, sin was dead -(Not nonexistent, but not fully understood). With the commandments came death, because now they had no cloke for their sin. -(John 15:22)(Rom.3:20)-By the Law is the knowledge of sin. But, the Lord provided a way, until Jesus paid the penalty for them. (John 9:41)-If you were blind (To the truth) you would have no sin, but you say, you see, therefore your sin remains. A child does things that would be a sin for us, but the child isn't accountable, because he doesn't know any better. This could apply to the retarded, the heathen and the ignorant. But, those with the intelligence to do so, would need to be a seeker of God, our creator. The Holy Spirit would lead them. (Heb.4:12)- Jesus, the Word of God, divides our soul from our spirit when He saves us, and then indwells our spirit with the Holy Spirit. (Rom. 7:19-25)- The good that I would, I do not, but the evil which I would not, that I do./ Our spirit wants to do good, but our carnal, sinful carnal nature, doesn't. Our mind is our soul & our spirit. When the Lord divides our mind and indwells our spirit, That leaves our soul to be our sinful, animal nature. There will be a continual war in our mind, between soul & spirit, all of our life, from the time that we are saved and indwelled by the Holy Spirit. (Rom. 4:8)-It's good that God does not impute sin to us. But, The Lord still commands us to confess and repent from sin. -(1 John 1:9) Them who confess their sins without repenting are mocking God. -(Gal. 6:7-8) It won't work. Con