Sin and Flesh

Paul’s view of the human plight – trapped in a struggle between good and evil – is not the end of the story. Romans 8 begins with a confident affirmation that the struggle is over. ‘I have been set free.’ In order to be clear about the nature of this affirmation, this liberation, we still have further work to do on the nature of the plight, in particular, what Paul means by ‘the flesh’.