Ronald, we in ourselves can NEVER grow holier every day. The carnal nature is opposed to holiness.
What??? It seems you have no idea what it means to be born again, and free from all desire to sin.
Clueless! A carnal Christian is an oxymoron. A true Christian partakes of the divine nature of God, Himself. Grace is the divine power of God. 2 Peter 1:2-4
1 Corinthians was written to carnal christians full of the flesh and abusing the gifts. That is where the phrase comes from.
1 Corinthians 3
And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual
people but as to
carnal, as to babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able
to receive it, and even now you are still not able; 3
for you are still carnal. For where
there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like
mere men? 4 For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I
am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?
5 Who then is Paul, and who
is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field,
you are God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. 11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation
with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. 14 If anyone’s work which he has built on
it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and
that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which
temple you are.
18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their
own craftiness”; 20 and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” 21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours: 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come—all are yours. 23 And you
are Christ’s, and Christ
is God’s.
hope this helps !!!