This is the ever-present struggle within us. We are both sinner and saint, and the former doesn’t believe the latter actually exists. You can see this disbelief across the heterodox landscape of Christianity - Gospel turned into Law, grace perverted into works, the work of the Holy Spirit confused for choice, etc.. These are all symptoms of being the corrupted, fleshy creatures we became after the Fall. The old Adam in us says, “the profound, and profoundly simple, message of the Gospel can’t possibly be true…. At least not for me.”
This is the ever-present struggle within us. We are both sinner and saint, and the former doesn’t believe the latter actually exists. You can see this disbelief across the heterodox landscape of Christianity - Gospel turned into Law, grace perverted into works, the work of the Holy Spirit confused for choice, etc.. These are all symptoms of being the corrupted, fleshy creatures we became after the Fall. The old Adam in us says, “the profound, and profoundly simple, message of the Gospel can’t possibly be true…. At least not for me.”