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As pertains to this topic (and all of scripture)...
This idea of "rightly dividing" the word of truth, has its origins from the beginning-- where God made them "male and female."
If we consider the mystery of marriage ordained by God and revealed to Paul during his time and ministry, this is the divide that exists that is made One again only in the marriage of the bride and the Bridegroom, which is between we who are His, and Jesus the Son of God.
It is the written word up until the spiritual wedding making those who are in Christ One with Him and with the Father (as He prayed), that Paul counsels and instructs, that should be rightly divided or cut according to the righteousness of God between the flesh and the Spirit, which was "first natural" in the case of Israel, of whom Christ was the Last born unto death without possibility of salvation without the shedding of blood, and "afterward the spirit" in the case of those born [again] of the spirit of God after Christ paid the price and ascended to the Father, of whom Jesus was the First.
However, just as the mystery of marriage (and before that, divorce) remained a mystery until it pleased God to reveal it, these truths that have always been evident in the scriptures have not fully been understood nor heeded, but have suffered the false teachings of men for millennia.
“All cannot accept this saying, but only those to whom it has been given." "He who is able to accept it, let him accept it.”
This idea of "rightly dividing" the word of truth, has its origins from the beginning-- where God made them "male and female."
If we consider the mystery of marriage ordained by God and revealed to Paul during his time and ministry, this is the divide that exists that is made One again only in the marriage of the bride and the Bridegroom, which is between we who are His, and Jesus the Son of God.
It is the written word up until the spiritual wedding making those who are in Christ One with Him and with the Father (as He prayed), that Paul counsels and instructs, that should be rightly divided or cut according to the righteousness of God between the flesh and the Spirit, which was "first natural" in the case of Israel, of whom Christ was the Last born unto death without possibility of salvation without the shedding of blood, and "afterward the spirit" in the case of those born [again] of the spirit of God after Christ paid the price and ascended to the Father, of whom Jesus was the First.
However, just as the mystery of marriage (and before that, divorce) remained a mystery until it pleased God to reveal it, these truths that have always been evident in the scriptures have not fully been understood nor heeded, but have suffered the false teachings of men for millennia.
“All cannot accept this saying, but only those to whom it has been given." "He who is able to accept it, let him accept it.”