Agreed.dolph wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 3:49 pm At first I thought Bibleman's quote of Dake summed it up quite well:
All these statements imply that sin is a slave master and a tyrant over man, making him die by forcing him to transgress the law (Rom. 7:7-25; 8:2). Sin is a real person apart from man or it could not reign, dominate, enslave, deceive, slay, be present with, control man, dwell in a man, or dictate to him in any sense.
Would you care to expound on that idea?Sin is also a law.
Not "cooperation", but "result" of man allowing lust, enticement, and temptation to bear fruit.Then I thought, Maybe all the words above were really a figure of speech, a personification of Satan or an evil spirit. When we say, sin dominated me, or, sin deceived me, or, sin enslaved me. Because common sense dictates that sin is the cooperation of man with an evil spirit, demon or Satan.
Are you not glad that it is written..."There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." (1 Cor 10:13) ?There are deceiving spirits, lying spirits, spirits of murder, Jezebel spirits, etc. A verb, like running, can't win the race; a verb, like killing, can't shoot a deer. That is why Dake's statement that sin is a person sounds so absurd.
The examples Dake uses above really mean: a dominating spirit came over me; a spirit of deception came over me; a controlling spirit came over me; a demon spirit of hate enslaved me to do something evil, etc.