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Originally Posted by Nicodemus1968
In my opinion this is the danger of looking at the kingdom or the church in a physical, natural way.
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You equate "physical" with "natural". The Bible does not. You are judging things from a non Biblical perspective. The church is a people. Those people are physical people. Yet the church is spiritual. Those people are spiritual, according to the Bible. Therefore, it is entirely Biblical (and thus spiritual) to acknowledge that things can be both spiritual and physical at the same time with no conflict or contradiction.
It is spiritual to be submit one's ideas to the Word of God. It is CARNAL and NATURAL to resist and reject the teachings and statements of God's Word. A lot of people think they are spiritually minded but in reality they are carnally minded. Because they do not submit their thoughts to the Word, but instead persist in worldly nonBiblical thinking.
And it is nonBiblical and worldly to claim that "spiritual must be opposite to physical". That is in fact paganism. It is at the root of all pagan philosophies and religions. And it is contrary to God's Revealed Truth contained in and spelled out by His Word.
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