Posts Tagged ‘1Cor.2:14’
TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE… The natural man of 1Cor.2:14 is the “old man” of Rom.6:6 and the carnal mind of Rom.8:6,7. He is natural and carnal because he relates only with the physical senses God gave Adam when He made him. He can not think spiritually because he is only natural and carnal. The fact that he is only natural and carnal does not mean he is bad. Because when God made Adam and the rest of creation He said it was “very good”. The creation including mankind was exactly as God wanted it to be. Natural, not spiritual as Paul said in 1Cor.15:45-48. Natural and carnal in that animals, birds, creeping things, and man all related to the world around them with the “very good” natural senses God gave them to relate with. But, because…
Read MoreMAN, MORTAL FROM THE BEGINNING- THE SURPRISING BEAUTY OF IT
The beauty of our mortality is that in it, and by our own free will, we find reason to seek a relationship with God. This is why God set it up so that Adam would only be sent out of the garden after he had the knowledge of good and evil. And not before. Because armed with this knowledge, and understanding his own mortality, it was God’s plan that he would come to trust in Jesus by seeking for answers about what comes next. And hearing those answers from those who have come to know Him. The Bible tells us in 1Cor.2:14 that the natural man doesn’t consider spiritual things. Neither can he know them because they can only be discerned through spiritual means. The reason for this is that generally speaking the natural man only thinks of things in terms that relate to…
Read MoreTHE NATURAL MAN JUDGES THE OUTWARD- GOD JUDGES THE HEART
1COR.2:14,15 TELLS US THE SPIRITUAL MAN JUDGES ALL THINGS. But, how is this possible when Jesus told them in Mt.7:1-3 not to judge lest they should be judged? It is because they were not spiritual, but only natural. And as natural men they themselves were not ready to be judged because they had not yet been judged as all who are spiritual have. Because all who are spiritual have already been judged to be righteous by the faith of Christ. When the natural man judges he looks on the outward appearance. But, God looks on the heart. And 1Cor.2:14,15 tells us there is a spiritual man that “judges all things”. Here we are told this is something that those who have received God’s gift of the spirit allows the believer to do. And it is only by this judgment that we can…
Read MoreADAM THE GARDENER, LET ME INTRODUCE YOU
First, Adam was not the man that the apostate church says he was. We know this by comparing and contrasting what their false teaching says about God, Jesus, and the atonement, with what the Biblical account says about them. These apostates have lied to us by saying that Adam and the rest of mankind have been cursed with death and spiritual separation from God because of Adam’s choice to eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But, Paul taught in 1Cor.15:45,46 that Adam was natural and not spiritual from the time God made him. So it’s not possible that Adam died spiritually since we know Adam was never spiritual to begin with. And Paul also taught in 1Cor.2:14 that the natural man, the man Paul says Adam was when God made him, could not perceive spiritual things. This means…
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