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Originally Posted by Aquila
With regards to my spirit, my inner man, yes.
The mind, or soul, is renewed through the the Word, but struggles from time to time with carnal thinking.
My flesh, or body, it is still fallen sinful flesh. It's still under the curse. It's subject to cravings, genetic predispositions, hormones, sickness, disease, aging, and death.
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So, you are spiritually bipolar? Sort of like an ecclesiastical Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? Jesus telling Judeans without the Holy Ghost they needed to not look at women and lust after them. Because that would be already considered adultery by Jesus. Yet, what Jesus was proposing was just some sort of poetic theatrics, because people are saved spiritually, but since they're epidermal tissue, blood, bone, hair, DNA, then that part is sinful? Are you gnostic? Then why on earth did Jesus say that if you even looked with lust at a woman you were committing the act of adultery? Was it because your spirit wasn't sinning, but your DNA was sinning? Do you even know what the term flesh means? It doesn't mean your fingernails, tears, and snot. It is your natural thinking process. Outside of Jesus' influence.
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Originally Posted by Aquila
Being void of sinful inclinations, desires, and/actions.
It is the forgiveness of sin. Initially it begins with repentance and is completed at baptism. But it can also be attained subsequently through confession.
No.
I do my best to live a loving Christlike life. But, I can often feel the desire to sin in my flesh. My mind can be rather carnal if I neglect prayer and meditation. And I'd like to say that I never give in, but at times I do.  |
You are still the guy who sends his wife into the house to dress to your specifications. Bro, doing your best is doing this religiously through your own human discipline. This isn't some Shaolin Temple were we train ourselves to be good, to be Christlike. That's Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. That my boy, is legalism. No matter if you are as barefoot as Jethro, wearing your Old Navy pineapple pattern shorts. If you think any of this is your own human discipline you are a legalist as any Chabad Lubavitcher Rebbe. Again, this is where you liberals drop the watermelon. While you stick your tongues out at the Ultra Conservatives. You guys are straining like a bowel movement passing cider blocks. trying to be Christlike while your inner man wants to cave someone's head in. You have to bite the bullet and through grit teeth, say, "I love you BROTHER!"
Sorry, but all that inner man sweet Jesus is a bunch of malarky if you have a mind full of porn.
You either got a good dose of Holy Ghost speaking in other tongues, or you are just going through the motions. Just waiting to implode and explode all over the pews.
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