What did Christ come to save? Our very flesh.

He never participated in its sin. What did Christ have to overcome??? The same thing we need to overcome.

He didn't come to save our flesh. He came to crucify it, with its passions and desires. See Galatians 5:24.

I think we have come to our point of divergence. Unless we agree on what Jesus saves, it's pointless to continue.

1. Empty your heart of its selfishness.
2. Christ can put his mold upon you.

What does Christ save us from? The answer is easy.

Not from me.

1) What is crystal clear is that conversion subdues selfishness, not that it eradicates selfishness.

2) Of course sinful tendencies and selfish tendencies are one and the same thing. And of course selfish tendencies are subdued, not eradicated.

3) And, by the way, don't you say that what is inherited cannot be eradicated?

4) What also is crystal clear is that "selfishness is sin" (ST, April 13, 1891 par. 3) and that selfishness is in the mind.

5) So, in our minds there is selfishness (since we must empty our minds from it), but in the mind of Christ there was no selfishness.

He will not tolerate selfishness. {RH, August 12, 1909 par. 11}

Let selfishness be rooted out of the heart. In the life of Christ there was no fiber of selfishness. {RH, November 30, 1897 par. 11}

He alone, for the selfish heart of sin, gives the new heart of love. {COL 254.2}

He whose eyes are fixed on Jesus will leave all. He will die to selfishness. {Mar 99.4}

As we think of what He has done for us, our hearts should be filled with gratitude and love, and we should renounce all selfishness and sin. {OFC 247.4}

All selfishness is expelled, all envy, all evil-speaking, is rooted out, and a radical transformation is wrought in the heart. {YRP 289.3}

If self has really been crucified, with the affections and lusts, the fruit will appear in good works to the glory of God. . . When the heart has given its affections to Christ, old things have passed away, and all things have become new. {5T 650.2}

If pride and selfishness and covetousness are not eradicated from the heart, they will poison every lifespring of the soul, and true liberality and Christian courtesy can not be exercised. {RH, February 27, 1900 par. 7}

If from the first selfishness had been eradicated from the hearts of the laborers, if the love of Jesus and the love of souls for whom Christ died, had controlled the workers, what a strong company might have been raised up. {PH118 9.1}

Every plant that Satan has planted--jealousy, anger, envy, evil surmising, evil speaking, impatience, fretfulness, prejudice, vanity, covetousness, and selfishness--should be rooted up without delay. {13MR 79.2}

God requires every soul to be pure and holy. We have hereditary tendencies to wrong. This is a part of self that no one need carry about. It is a weakness of humanity to pet selfishness, because it is a natural trait of character. But unless all selfishness is put away, unless self is crucified, we can never be holy as God is holy. {FLB 140.4}

But the teachers of truth can do their work acceptably only as self is crucified, and selfishness is purged from their hearts. They are to purify themselves even as Christ is pure. {GH, March 1, 1904 par. 17}

The Lord reveals to men their danger, and warns them to put away all selfishness, that they may have that faith which works by love and purifies the soul. {RH, May 24, 1898 par. 10}

Through sin the heart and the mind have been defiled and enfeebled, but Jesus came to impart moral power, to reshape moral taste, to fashion man after the divine similitude, and to elevate humanity in the scale of moral value with God. If we would learn of Christ, we must have the faith which works by love and purifies the soul. Faith is valueless if it does not work by love and expel from the soul all selfishness, all pride and self-righteousness. {YI, March 12, 1896 par. 5}

It is difficult to fathom that you can have an answer to that, given that you cannot distinguish between sinful flesh and sinful mind.