If carnally minded is death, does that mean to have the spirit of the antichrist? Does that imply it is following satan's lie to be like God and make our own rules? Is "death" to God being dead to Him? ..fully disconnected
pretty thought provoking post there
yes I thinkin would say having an evil spirit is what makes an evil Mind. Our mind and heart is where we can see and hear our spirit. All about us that cannot be seen outwardly is our spirit .
Thoughts , desires , will , heart , hopes , dreams , emotions everything real about us is the spirit. And isn’t what we can look at with our natural eyes and see in another it’s within them hidden inside the shell of the flesh
our spirit is expressed through our words and actions that we commit through operating our flesh. Like a vehicle and driver. The spirit is known by words that express knowledge words are an expression of what is in the mind and heart .
Those thoughts and desires the heart and core of us are spirit and through the flesh we express ourselves in the world, in the creation . The created part of the world . We have a body now that’s made of that creation he made in the beginning
we actually
are a spirit which came out of God and
made us a living soul when he placed us in the creation in the created body of the earth
you see a spirit is like the source and the body is necassary for a spirit to be part of Gods creation. Both heavenly and earthly a spirit and a body made of creation is required for a soul to exist in the world
have you noticed when the evil spirits appear in the gospel , how thoer will is to be within a body of flesh ? Jesus would cast them out of the people they were dwelling inside of and the. Thoer will was immediately that he would send them into another body ? Even pigs ?
After Jesus shows his power tomspeak to the creation itself and command it he then shows his power over spirit
“But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him! And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding. So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine. And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.”
Matthew 8:27-32 KJV
spirit requires a body in order to exist in the material realm. Satan is a spirit also so he has to “ possess” someone’s heart and mind in order to operate his will in the world
man is the key to creation because in the very first God created everything and then set mankind as the possesser of the earth . He essentially Made earth for mankind That he had created for himself so mans will is what determines the destiny of earth
if man is like God in our nature good and we don’t have a struggle knowing what is good and what is evil of we have a conscience made after Jesus gospel then there is only life for man
but Satan corrupted that pet of
Mankind because dominion belonged to man. The spiritual evil in the world needs to deceive and operate through mankind in order to commit any sin or evil deed because it has to be man the earth was made for us
do you see what I’m thinking ? Spirit needs a body to be fully part of the creation “ heaven and earth “ heavenly is spirit and earthly is body. We need both to be complete which
one complete person is a living soul the
spirit of Gods child in the
body that is not opposed to the spirit like Adam was created .
“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and
man became a living soul.”
Genesis 2:7 KJV
he wasn’t a soul when he was formed , but when the spirit of life came into him from God them he became a living soul in the creation. Part spirit , part body perfect harmony because there was no deception to cause confusion within and conflict between good and evil knowledge
that’s what we need redeemed to because of what came later, which caused the body , to be corrupted and become flesh ( dying and condemned body) degraded because of the transgression now mankind can never be the same they are no longer
as God , they became as
gods
it was a degradation from their true and original image man wasn’t in a struggle knowing both , God created us above that struggle and Satan drew us into it with a deception which brought a sinful and
conflicted nature in thier offspring.
man became those who nOw require salvation , reconciliation , redemption , atonement in order that we do not die with the flesh but are redeemed to a glorified body that exists on earth and a spirit which exists in
heaven and on earth in the body.
God never created sinners he created man in his good image and Satan corrupted them and produced sinners under sentence of death
the flesh is what is condemned to the first death it can’t be saved it has to die because of the commandment of sin and death.
The soul the spirit first by faith
and
the body through the promise also of faith to come
is what’s being saved because of our spirit does in the flesh in our sins we’re doomed
“And he said unto them,
Ye are from beneath;
I am from above:
ye are of this world;
I am not of this world.
I said therefore unto you, that
ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
Then said they unto him,
Who art thou?
And Jesus saith unto them, Even
the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
I have many things to say and to judge of you: but
he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him. They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
Then said Jesus unto them,
When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.”
John 8:23-28 KJV
If we believe the gospel , our spirit is going to be saved from our dead body the moment we pass away . If it isn’t taken from that body it is forever doomed that’s what the gospel is saving us from our souls are doomed forever unless we receive a new and incorruptible body for our saved spirit
but if we are redeemed by Christ and have a promise of a glorified body our souls are saved by his word.
what I’m saying is from the first the creation is both heavenly ( spirit) and also the created material part ( body)
it’s true of creation as in the heavens and the earth , it’s true of man who is spirit in a material created body . It’s true of God the Farher who is a spirit in heaven and is Christ The Man with a body on earth.
it’s true of even animals they have a living spirit though it differs from man , but they also have a body that was created. Every thing that lives and breathes has a spirit whether good or evil and those spirits express themselves in the world by knowledge spoken , and shown and taught by mankind
man is like a conduit for good and evil now and the world has been filled with evil because of us Gods redeeming us