What's The Difference Between "Being Carnal" and Being Spiritual ?" Please Elaborate !?

Question

Is Carnality the same as being in the Flesh or fleshly ?
Can one who is carnal understand the things of the Spirit ?

Nondescript, so to be spiritual means non human?

What if no one tell you except your own conscience that you are wrong, wicked and evil; will you still be spiritual?

Answer 1

"Being Carnal" is being human.

"Being Spiritual" is being human, but feeling guilty about the parts that the religious leaders told you is wrong and pretending that some invisible superbeing cares that you try.

"Spiritual" is a word that people use to make their superstitions seem more authoritative.

Answer 2

Carnal is worldly, sensual, sexual and without spirituality. Spirituality is of the spirit and not concerned with the physical body and things of the world. A person who is all carnal must first accept that there is a spirit. When that happens the person can then explore and start to understand the spirit and the differences between good and evil. In psychology there is the Id which is carnal like an infant who has many demands to be met. Then there is the Super Ego which is a person's spiritual sense of good and bad and desire to make the world a better place. In between is the Ego which tries to balance what a person must have or wants with what is good and right in this world. Most of us are somewher in between carnal and spiritual. Working on your spirit will help you grow as a person.

Answer 3

Romans 8:5-8, "For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God."


1 Corinthians 3:3, "For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?"


Galatians 5:16-26, "This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.


But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit."

May God Bless those who have eyes to see and ears to hear his message.

Answer 4

To be carnal is, well let me explain it by giving the root meaning of carnal it comes from the word carne which is Latin for meat. To be carnally minded therefore is to be a Meathead, sorry Archie Bunker! But to be spiritually minded is to have the same mind that Jesus had and to seek for the things of Godliness.

Answer 5

we are all carnal, and drawn toward the spiritual.

I believe in a Creator, and I believe that "evolution" describes the long process through which God created the heavens and earth. I do not believe that this happened in seven days, but over billions of years, as is described in the "big bang' theory.

the story of Adam and Eve is a metaphorical tale that has a simple message---once we have partaken of the fruit of the tree of the knowlege of good and evil, we are accountable to do right. but we still have a reptilian, self-seeking nature, are driven to self-satisfaction and other "carnal" fulfillments that are very necessary for a lower animal, but are often in conflict with our spiritual selves---the knowlege of good and evil.

There is no satisfactory evolution-based explaination as to why a conscience should exist, but it does. Our sense of self-satisfaction and self-seeking is an expression of our carnal, or fleshy, nature---our seeking after the fruits of the spirit is of the spirit, from God.

One who is spiritual can understand that which is of the flesh, and vise-versa. but no one who is of the flesh can begin to comprehend the awesome magnificance of God, any more than the most awesome mathematician can ever comprehend infinity.

but...

that does not mean that we should not try...

Answer 6

Being Spiritual is hoping for the future, for your self and above that for others; Philippians 2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Putting other first is being Spiritual and showing perfect Love.
1 John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
1 John 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Doing not your own will but the Father's will shows you are spiritual; Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Matthew 18:14 Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Mark 14:36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
Luke 11:2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.

You must understand the Father's will cannot be stopped but you can be Carnally minded and serve the body more than the spirit, this makes you the enemy of God and the flesh with all of it's desires are against the will of the Father; Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
1 Corinthians 3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Answer 7

being carnal is having a love for things of this world ...being spiritual means someone who is operating in the things of the spirit, not flesh........no someone who is carnal cannot understand the things of God because they live by what they see & "feel" as compared to the one who lives by faith in things unseen (faith in God and in His word)

Answer 8

carnal is of the flesh. it does not mean being imortal. there are verses talking bout carnal. being jealousy, malice, fulfilling its lust and all the sins. but the spiritual will have the fruits of the spirit.

Answer 9

Carnal is worldly, Spiritual is divine.

Answer 10

"Being carnal" in the context of Christian precepts is the propensity to give more priority in indulging in physical comforts and desires rather than subordinating these cravings to the demands of "higher moral values". "Being spiritual" is the opposite of this propensity. The observance of "higher moral values" takes precedence over carnal desires.