It has been well said that if there is anything good in any man it is because it was put there by God. And something good — a new life, having a sinless nature — has been imparted and dispensed by God to every believer. While there is still within us that which is of “the flesh,” there is also that which is begotten of “the Spirit,” Just as the fallen nature of the flesh is totally depraved and “cannot please God,” the other, Christ’s nature within us is absolutely perfect and always pleases the Father. Adam was originally created in “the image and likeness of God,” but he fell into sin and later “begat a son in his own likeness, after his (fallen) image” (Gen. 5:3). That ‘Sin nature’ was passed to all men, being born of Adam’s lineage. It could not be otherwise. Fallen Adam could generate and beget only fallen, sinful offspring, whom even “the Law” could not change. But “what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,” accomplished, “that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (Rom. 8:3-4). As Adam was made in the likeness of God, but fell, so Christ was made in the likeness of sinful flesh (Rom 8:3a), that is in His human body that He received being born of Mary. Of course He was conceived by His Father, by the Holy Spirit of God. Thus Mary was His mother, on His human side, but God was His Father with whom He was One at His core – His Spirit. He was made human that He might redeem humanity from the degradation of the fall and save man from “the wrath of God.” It is only through the operation of the resurrected “Spirit of life in Christ,” that a ‘new creation man’ could be brought into being. We as believers have been made anew, we are of a “new man… renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him” (Col. 3:10) a “new man, which, after God is created in righteousness and true holiness” (Eph. 4:24). The ‘new man’ has the very ‘nature’ of Christ as the “Seed” of God the Father that came through the lineage of Abraham. “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.” (Galatians 3:16) “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word (Christ is the Word, Jn 1:1) of God, which liveth and abideth forever.” (1 Peter 1:23) “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17) Thus Apostle John writes to Israel of the new sinless ‘spirit-nature’ within the believer’s spirit after being “born of God.” “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his (God’s) seed (Grk. sperma) remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.” (1 John 3:9) “We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.” (1 John 5:18) Yes, we as humans in human bodies may still occasionally commit acts of sin. We, still as free-will creatures, may wrongly choose not to obey our new sinless nature of “the Spirit of Christ” within us, and thus bear the consequence of our foolish choice, yet Paul says… we stand sinless in God’s sight because He is faithful to us even when we are not entirely faithful. 2 Timothy 2:13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.