It is a poison, a spiritual disease, that contaminates each individual as he adjusts to a sin-filled world and makes the same poor choices that Adam and Eve made. The meaning of “enmity” is not the same as “enemy.” An enemy can be reconciled, such as we were to God through the blood of Christ. St. Paul starts the passage with the word “therefore,” so we have to read back into the letter to find out what he is talking about.
Because of their disobedience, an attitude, a spirit, of sin and rebellion entered into them and separated them from God. But Satan deceived Adam and Eve into sin, the first step toward being at war with their Creator.
We can see the last step in 1Corthians 3:11-15, and that is being condemned by the world, although we are saved it is by fire. As a point of clarity, it is not wrong to involve legal authorities. At War with God (James 4:4–10) The root cause of every war, internal and external, is rebellion against God. (Read this passage) The Bible tells that the believer is married to Jesus Christ, for we are the bride of Christ, therefore when we fool around with the world James calls us adulterers, as seen in this 4 th verse. Before we came to know Jesus we were at enmity with God.
When God created man, for a short time there was harmony in nature and with God. That’s where you’d find it. We were God’s enemy. The Bible says that before Christ we “were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and WITHOUT GOD in the world (Ephesians 2:12).
Turn back again to that passage and simply read verse 10, “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” But now you might think that this means when we were hostile to God, and of course, that idea would be included, but look at the preceding verse. We sought only to war against Him and to become independent of His sovereign rule. That spirit is enmity against God (Romans 8:7-9). We were actually at war with Him. Romans 8:7 testifies that "the carnal [natural] mind is enmity [at war] against God," as shown by man's refusal to be subject to God's governance. If you were looking for the enmity against God, you’d go to the pit of hell and there you’d find it. But what does the term “enmity” mean? Earlier Paul has outlined that there are two states of humanity, one at enmity with God and the other at peace with God. Therefore, according to Owen, “the law of sin” is enmity against God.
But if once hope were gone, you would soon show what you were; you would feel your enmity against God in a rage. We were at enmity with God prior to Jesus.
If you pretend that you do not feel enmity against God, and yet act as an enemy, you may certainly conclude that it is not because you are no … 7. Paul says as much in Romans 5:10-11:
Well, in searching for the enmity – the deeds of violence and rebellion against God – in searching for the enmity against God, we would find it in the pit of hell.
However, once we came to know Christ and to trust in Him alone, God made peace with us. Today, we will discover the primary reason we are at war with ourselves and, consequently, with each other: we are at war with God. John W. Ritenbaugh While we were hostile and at enmity with God, He sent His Son to die for our sins (Romans 5:6–8; Ephesians 2:1–10).
Well that might be right. We will also discuss how this war can be stopped. But God designed to deliver from sin, and to work a great change. In Jesus, He did all the work necessary to end the war with us. Romans 5:10 (WNT) For if while we were hostile to God we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, it is still more certain that now that we are reconciled, ... Nay, the carnal mind is not only an enemy to God, but enmity itself, chap.