Your flesh is what is incompatible with your soul and God for that matter. God created us in his image to have fellowship with him. In perfection, our flesh had no sin therefore we could have fellowship and not fear death. Once sin entered the world, we live in fear of a holy God who can dissolve our flesh and send our souls to eternal torment in hell.
We are told to die to self and live for God. What part of the flesh can be saved? What good thing in God's eyes is a body that will die from the affects of sin to an eternal soul? I say DNA has been programmed with sin. Sin will one day rob us of our living bodies. Yet, sin will only rob us of our souls if we don't live through its effects by the spirit of the Almighty God.
Sin has been with us from the garden. That must have been some fruit God created that had the power to alter DNA in such a way to reach into time and touch every living human being.
2007-03-21 13:42:42 · 6 answers · asked by Bimpster 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
to "mortify" (make to die) the flesh is a simple way to say
put away those earthly sins that do hold on to us and be alive in the spirit of God. i.e. Let the spirit grow within you.
Hope this helped
2007-03-26 14:30:05 · answer #1 · answered by j.wisdom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whoa there, sunshine! A bit too much Cartesian dualism for my liking! The soul is not separate from 'the flesh'; our bodies are part of us, which is why we believe they will be resurrected. The idea that the flesh is sinful and corrupt is just bad theology; the body is the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit.
1 Cor 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
2007-03-21 20:52:07 · answer #2 · answered by completelysurroundedbyimbeciles 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We are never to crucify the flesh. One of the biggest misconceptions is the idea that the flesh is the opposite of the spirit.
The flesh IS the spirit materialized.
You are misunderstanding the word 'sin' and
you are misinterpreting the scripture.
Remember, in those terms, the Christ died for the sins of mankind, so that nobody would ever have to die that way again.
The death you speak of is transformation
not annihilation.
Our DNA is indeed 'programmed', and you
can disrupt and corrupt the programs with those ideas and attitudes toward the body
that you seem to hold. They act as viruses do to a computer. Those false conclusions are the real sin.
2007-03-21 21:06:11 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I think the fruit and the power of it is not literal but is a picture of what happens to mankind because of the law and our natural unrighteousness. The tree of knowledge of good and evil does represent the law. God's law is absolute righteousness and man could not live up to it. It is the reason for the tree of life that is also in the midst of the garden. These two trees represent the two natures of God. God's righteousness whichh is also the law and his Mercy which is the tree of life and is the atonement he provided through Jesus Christ our lord.
2007-03-21 20:59:21 · answer #4 · answered by djmantx 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are way off base. Jesus in the gospel of John stated The flesh profit nothing. When you are born again Christ spirt begats a new etenal nature in you. Flesh is and always has and will amout to nothing other than dirt,to which it will return.
2007-03-21 20:52:35 · answer #5 · answered by dispesational7 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"we live in fear of a Holy God"-exactly why Christianity doesn't make sense.
2007-03-21 20:46:39 · answer #6 · answered by Jedi 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋