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Body-----soul.......spirit. The soul is in the middle....blind. Trapped as it were. We input things through the body...or through the spirit. Through the natural faculties or the spiritual faculties. The soul can use the faculties of the body...or turn to the spirit.

Purely your interpretation. If you had more experience with the opinions of men concerning how the bible can be interpreted...you would actually post other verses from the bible to prove your point. A human being is the totality of these things. But a soul is the mind, the heart, and the will...

Great post! Now we are moving forward.... We see that the book of remembrance is about God's "jewels". These correspond to the tribes of Israel. The age old debate then is...do these correspond to the ancient tribes of Israel...before Christ came to the world. Or...is it spiritual Israel...

1 Corinthians 6:18 18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. How can we sin against our own body if it is the body that is sinning and we are not responsible for it?

Gnosticism takes two extremes. Since the body is evil (in their minds)...some will let the body do as it wants...thinking it has no effect on the soul. As in...see! I can sin all day long but I'm not responsible for it...it's just my body doing it. Or...the devil made my body do this. I'm not...

I did say...we...which means we must still do it. Many are deceived into thinking I am preaching a salvation of works...rather than a salvation that works. :)

A war takes 2 sides no?

The truth is like a wheel within a wheel. It works on 2 levels. The outer righteousness and the inner holiness. So then the statement "all that is not of faith is sin" works on those 2 levels. 1. If we know something is wrong and do it anyway...we go against our own faith. This is a sin...

YAY! I thought to bring it around to the OP. :rolleyes:

You haven't listed all the weapons arrayed against us. 1) False spirits 2) lies and half-truths 3) private bible interpretations 4) the power of the principalities in the world. 5) the weakness of the flesh 6) ignorance

Sin is the power behind the carnal man exerting himself. How much opinion mongering is going on in these threads? How much judgmentalism? The flesh..in the bible..(NT) is a term that signifies the power that a man will use to make his way in the world. When that power is mixed with the...

We overcome the flesh (power) by the Spirit (power). Romans 8 in a nutshell. :) Just like we overcome gravity (law) by the power of flight (law).

What you are missing is the power of the flesh which is according to a spiritual law. The law of sin and death. You are judging by your eyes and carnal faculties. The problem with mankind is a spiritual one. Leave the biology behind and read deeper into the word.

If you want to cease from sin..take up HIS cross and take on HIS life. Then you will walk in HIS power. THAT is the gospel and the power of grace freely given to they who believe TO (or into) Jesus.

You are seeing all of mankind as the same because you have not seen something that transforms men into Christlikeness....at least not yet. God is merciful. God is not legalistic although He is a God of law. God has instituted a new law...the law of faith in Jesus..so that they who abide in...

I'm not talking about me but about Jesus and abiding in Him. It's about any who abide in Him. Anyone who abides in Christ doesn't sin. A holy person doesn't sin. But of course it is still possible to sin...if we are not fully weaned from this world. The evidence of sinlessness in a person who...

Hurts what? ;) I think cheerfully says it all! :)

I'm attempting to show the division in this thread. The "you" is the charge against those who grieve the ones whom God will remember. These are grieved over the treatment of God and His will.

One of the verses that modern Gnostics base their error on is this verse. Romans 8:3b “(…) God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh (…)” seems to be one of the favourite proof texts for “modern-day gnostics”. I have posted here a fair rebuttal of the notion that the flesh...

Nothing here of nationalism...