"IF, that is what he believes and teaches, then I would have to voice my objection to his view."
Hello Brother,
I submit this as my evidence: "Justification and Regeneration" by Charles Leiter, page 148
"3. Paul has already described in detail the state of every Christian in Romans 6 and in Romans 7:1-6. We cannot ignore this description when we come to the last half of Romans 7. According to Romans 6 and Romans 7:1-6, all Christians have been "freed from sin" and have become "slaves of righteousness." "Sin shall not be master over" Christians, for they are "not under law, but under grace.".... The view that Romans 7:14-25 is a description of "the Christian at his best, even of Paul at the time of writing" thus flies directly in the face of everything Paul has said up to this point. How can we read Romans 6, and 7:1-6 and still contend that all true Christians are actually "of flesh, sold into bondage to sin"!"
Leiter goes on in this portion of his book to talk about the "wretched man" concept of the Christian life, where "'wretchedness' and spiritually are almost equated and the more holy we become, the more 'wretched' we are."
I think this is questionable teaching at best. What say you?
