1 Cor 2 is so abused.
The natural man and the spiritual man? Paul is contrasting those who follow after the enticing words of mans wisdom, wisdom of men, wisdom of the world. (Natural man)These are all phrases used by Paul.
To the man who follows after the direction of the Spirit.
It’s as simple as that. So, we can choose to follow after mans wisdom and be natural or we can read, study and apply what the HS has provided and become spiritual. The HS does not have to miraculously, apart from the word, operate on you to make you then spiritual so you can now understand God. That is completely false. Let’s look at some verses....
1 Corinthians 2:9-16 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
It is not in man to direct his own steps. Jer 10:23. We need guidance and God has provided that. Through his written revealed will.
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
How has God revealed his way to man? Through the Spirit. Who gave us the Bible? The Spirit. This is the medium in which God has now chosen to reveal himself to man through the Spirit.
He also says that I can’t know what’s in your mind unless you tell me. Likewise, we can’t know what’s in Gods mind unless he tells us. He has done that today through the Bible.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
How do we Know the things given to us by God? Through the Spirit given word of God.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
How does one compare spiritual with spiritual today? Through the Bible. When you tell me you got on your knees and prayed to God for forgiveness and at that moment you were born again, I know you are natural and have followed mans wisdom, because the Spirit never told anybody nor did the Spirit give an example in his word of anybody doing that for salvation. Plus, it completely contradicts what the Spirit has told us to do in order to be saved. Also when I see women preachers like Joyce I know they are following their own desires and mans wisdom because the Spirit filled word speaks plainly against this practice.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
See, the natural man above, praying for salvation, did not receive that from the Spirit and when I point that out he thinks I’m foolish because you CANNOT be spiritual following the wisdom of man. This individual cannot go to Gods word and say see...I did exactly what the Spirit gave an example of or what he told me to do, because NOBODY was ever told to pray for salvation and there are no divine examples of this happening under the new covenant.
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.
the only way to have the mind of Christ is to align your way of thinking to what has been revealed in his book.
The natural man and the spiritual man? Paul is contrasting those who follow after the enticing words of mans wisdom, wisdom of men, wisdom of the world. (Natural man)These are all phrases used by Paul.
To the man who follows after the direction of the Spirit.
It’s as simple as that. So, we can choose to follow after mans wisdom and be natural or we can read, study and apply what the HS has provided and become spiritual. The HS does not have to miraculously, apart from the word, operate on you to make you then spiritual so you can now understand God. That is completely false. Let’s look at some verses....
1 Corinthians 2:9-16 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
It is not in man to direct his own steps. Jer 10:23. We need guidance and God has provided that. Through his written revealed will.
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
How has God revealed his way to man? Through the Spirit. Who gave us the Bible? The Spirit. This is the medium in which God has now chosen to reveal himself to man through the Spirit.
He also says that I can’t know what’s in your mind unless you tell me. Likewise, we can’t know what’s in Gods mind unless he tells us. He has done that today through the Bible.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
How do we Know the things given to us by God? Through the Spirit given word of God.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
How does one compare spiritual with spiritual today? Through the Bible. When you tell me you got on your knees and prayed to God for forgiveness and at that moment you were born again, I know you are natural and have followed mans wisdom, because the Spirit never told anybody nor did the Spirit give an example in his word of anybody doing that for salvation. Plus, it completely contradicts what the Spirit has told us to do in order to be saved. Also when I see women preachers like Joyce I know they are following their own desires and mans wisdom because the Spirit filled word speaks plainly against this practice.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
See, the natural man above, praying for salvation, did not receive that from the Spirit and when I point that out he thinks I’m foolish because you CANNOT be spiritual following the wisdom of man. This individual cannot go to Gods word and say see...I did exactly what the Spirit gave an example of or what he told me to do, because NOBODY was ever told to pray for salvation and there are no divine examples of this happening under the new covenant.
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.
the only way to have the mind of Christ is to align your way of thinking to what has been revealed in his book.