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For myself, I believe that what Jesus meant by saying every sinner is enslaved by, addicted to, sin is that they have lost their free will as every choice reflects at least in part some element of evil desire which slowly leavens, corrupts, the whole character of the person.
This is in accord with Rom 7:18 ...[FONT=&]For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.[/FONT][FONT=&]19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.[/FONT][FONT=&]20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.[/FONT]
I think we agree and just want to comment those scriptures too and say Romans 7 is where Paul in a very exaggerated explains what it is like for one under the law without faith.