Sentences with phrase «whether flesh and spirit»

No one questioned whether flesh and spirit had different connotations.

Not exact matches

I know that some people point to passages like 1 John 4:1 which says that Christians are to discern the spirits to see whether or not they are from God, and the text goes on to say that «any spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit which does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God» (1 John 4:2 - 3).

Steven thanks for your testimony I agree with your view that homosexuality is not an orientation we are not born that way but its a choice.We can choose to live by what our flesh dictates or we can live by what God reveals through his word and by his holy spirit.If we are serious about following God we chose to follow him so it does nt matter whether gay or straight our choice is to follow God with all our heart.I have never been gay but have battled and was overcome by my fleshly desires not until i turned from them and asked the holy spirit to help me have i been changed for that i will always be grateful to the Lord.So in that sense we are no different our testimonys are important and are powerful.Thank you for your witness and may the Lord continue to use you as his vessel to touch lives and hearts for him.brentnz

While Paul's thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same body» but rather in terms of a new body, whether it be a «spiritual body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish between the present body of flesh and blood and the future resurrection body, he seems to be thinking of both bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.

The interpretation of the Epistle to the Ephesians is quite different, depending on whether the writer is seen as primarily dependent on Jewish thought and practices, or as someone whose thought is dualistic.9 It is very difficult to know whether the writers use the various words translated into English as «flesh» and «spirit» in a spiritualizing way or not.

Mark of course distinguishes the stages of Jesus» preresurrection and post-resurrection Messiahship, but there is no trace in Mark of the Pauline terminology «according to the flesh» and «according to the Spirit» — not to mention the question whether or not Mark thought of Christ as pre-existent (probably not).

No - one has the right to comment on whether someone's living by the flesh or the Spirit unless they are commenting on clear outward signs of good or bad — Jesus» encouragement to judge a tree by its fruit has come back to me again and again as I meet «unbelievers» who have much in common with me until we talk about God and then to quote Rob Bell «the God they have turned their back on is not the God I believe.»

Flesh and spirit are forever in tension with one another, for in every decision we determine whether our fi4ure goals will shape our past inclinations, or vice versa, and to what extent.

And I know the Lord is pleased when we submit to the Holy Spirit in the area of our flesh... whether it be what we eat or drink (diet coke;)-RRB- or what we wear or how we speak or choose to wear our countenance for the day.