Romans 6:6 : "Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done, away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin." Paul continues the analogy between Christ's death and our death to sin. Christ was crucified--"our old man was crucified." What is the old man that was crucified? Some say: "Our corrupt nature." But Paul does not view our nature as corrupt. Besides, our nature is not put to death in the process of conversion to Christ. Read the verse again and you will see that "our old man" and "the body of sin" are the same thing, for certainly "our old man" is not crucified in order that something else might be put to death. If we will keep in mind what Paul had been saying, we will see that to crucify the old man is the same thing as to die to sin. Of himself Paul said: "I have been crucified with Christ" (Galatians 2:20). Paul the sinner died. What was true of him is true of every one who becomes a Christian. The old man, the body of sin, is the sinner. Every time a person becomes a Chris-tian, a sinner dies. We die as sinners and are raised --up as saints. In verse 2, Paul affirms that we died-- died to sin; we are then raised to a new life. We are then no longer the bondservants of sin. When a bond-servant, or a slave, dies, he passes from under his mas-ter. His master no longer has dominion over him.