TheThirdandReformedAdam
Puritan Board Freshman
Teaching on this passage soon (Rom. 8:10) and I'm hoping to get some opinions on how we ought to understand Paul, here.
"But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness." (ESV)
It seems that the popular interpretation used to be that both the 'body' and the 'spirit' are references to the human body and spirit (two contemporaries I read which hold to this are Sproul and MacArthur). However, the bulk of modern commentators seem to understand the body as the human body (since Paul speaks of resurrection in the following verse) and the spirit as the Holy Spirit (since He is clearly the 'Spirit' discussed in vv. 1-9, 11) (see Moo; Schreiner; Murray).
I currently understand Paul to mean something similar to this: 'Although your body will die because of sin, your body will experience renewed life because of the work of the Spirit [I get this from Paul's discussion of the Resurrection in the following verse]. Ultimately, the Spirit will bring about this new life to your body [or, rather, a new body] because of the imputed righteousness of Christ.'
Thoughts?
"But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness." (ESV)
It seems that the popular interpretation used to be that both the 'body' and the 'spirit' are references to the human body and spirit (two contemporaries I read which hold to this are Sproul and MacArthur). However, the bulk of modern commentators seem to understand the body as the human body (since Paul speaks of resurrection in the following verse) and the spirit as the Holy Spirit (since He is clearly the 'Spirit' discussed in vv. 1-9, 11) (see Moo; Schreiner; Murray).
I currently understand Paul to mean something similar to this: 'Although your body will die because of sin, your body will experience renewed life because of the work of the Spirit [I get this from Paul's discussion of the Resurrection in the following verse]. Ultimately, the Spirit will bring about this new life to your body [or, rather, a new body] because of the imputed righteousness of Christ.'
Thoughts?