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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
I am thinking of Romans 8:13 "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Mortify means to kill, to become dead.
And also Colossians 3:5 " Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
In a sense, it appears, that "death" is attributed to perfecting and consecration of our spiritual life.
Just my thoughts. |
Amen and amen. Great verses!
But that is not what Paul was talking about in
1 Cor 15. Paul was talking about real bodies actually dying. And then he mentioned resurrection. Nothing in 1
Cor 15 speaks of denying self.
The verses you show are PERFECT to show spiritual dying to SELF, but not to sin. When we speak of
1 Cor 15, we need to recognize that nothing is involving denying self, but rather actual and physical death.
It's just that we took
1 Cor 15:31 out of context when we say that speaks of denying self.