The Misleading Explanation of Romans 7 and Romans 8

We shall see how misleading it is. It produces those Christians who go around sighing and complaining and striving to improve themselves; they sin every day, they say, and they complain that they do what they do not want to do, and the complaint ends with a pitiful woeful cry: “O wretched man that I am!”

The whole thing is just a cover-up for all the madness from which people do not want to abstain. They want to go to heaven, but they do not want to give up what they desire here in this world. Perhaps these are the people Peter refers to who twist Paul’s writings to their own destruction. They find comfort in a false humility.

But the skipping-over doctrine breaks out: things brighten up in verse 25. There they exclaim: “I thank God – through Jesus Christ our Lord!” So they skip – and they are in Romans 8. Such teachings have no basis in the word of God. First of all they misinterpret the scripture and want to adapt it as a false comfort for their bad life, and then they do not want to remain in Romans 7 because they believe in the first false explanation. They have confidence in them, albeit small, but they are also deceived.