The Believer and His Fallen Nature: Where the Flesh Holds Tight to the Forbidden Fruit.

[Rescued One]

I don't know of any regenerate Christians who think it's ok, or have a desire to continue in old habits; and if they do, they need to examine themselves to see if they are in the faith... Do you know of any?

2 Corinthians 13:5 KJV
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

If Jesus is in you and you are in the faith, you have a new nature! That's what I was saying.

I do know someone who claims to be a Christian and cheats on his young wife.

 

[Rescued One]

As partakers of the divine nature, believers are made part of the family of God (John 1:12), and this results in a changed life. First John 3:9 says, “No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.” By giving us His nature, God makes us His sons and daughters and conforms us to the image of His Son (Romans 8:29; 2 Corinthians 6:18).

In what ways are believers partakers of the divine nature? | GotQuestions.org

In what ways are believers partakers of the divine nature? What does it mean that we are partakers of the divine nature?

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I'm not sorry I believe this, but I'm sorry if people think I don't hold to Reformed Theology.

 

[prism]

I do know someone who claims to be a Christian and cheats on his young wife.

They're either unregenerate (the easiest excuse out), and if they are regenerate God will deal appropriately with them...

Hebrews 12:5-6 KJV
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: [6] For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

 

[Hazelelponi]

If Jesus is in you and you are in the faith, you have a new nature! That's what I was saying.

I do know someone who claims to be a Christian and cheats on his young wife.

Your example aside, no Christian "wants" to sin against others or against God.

But, a flash of temper or pride can occur at a bad time, an ungodly thought, an, an, an...

A myriad of things can occur and we might momentarily sin, and it is something we are working on during our walk with Christ.

We don't believe in sinless perfectionism, we will still occasionally have a bad moment or continue to find sins we need to overcome in Christ even decades into practicing in faith.

When we say we have power over sin it doesn't mean we always have reactionary ability in the moment to control the self.

Scripture teaches us that Christians will not continue on in habitual sin. Not that they won't sin at all. We won't be rid of the sin nature prior to our ultimate glorification. Right now we are just in the process of being sanctified.