Can carnal man?

no man can understand the holy scripture as long as he has canal desires.Only those can who have been enlightened, there hearts and souls revived with the name of God or who have been granted the holy holy spirit.

Then the light of God and the holy spirit guides you.

You won't like this answer but:

To understand the various scriptures we must understand the historical time of the writing, the committee who wrote the passages and any agenda that appeals to logic.

For example, the supposed "Deuteronomic find" which miraculously remained in a destroyed temple for newly released Jews to miraculously discover in a building looted and left in ruin some years before.

Scholars believe the work was done centuries later with the benefit of history from which to have ancient figures, allegorical or otherwise, to make convenient predictions they never made. The claim to have discovered the documents after the Babylonian release by Cyrus the Great, is almost certainly apocryphal.

Think about the word..."carnal". Do really imagine that ancient writers used such words, originating in the15th century. This obsession with sex is certainly an English addition from a very loose translation by questionable "scholars" re-writing the scholarly work of Wycliffe and Tyndale, two genuine scholars with scholarly reputations who did the actual translations which the KJV "scholars, re-wrote with little attention to correct translations of both the amalgamated Koine Greek or the Old Latin.

So, we need to know, the writers, the times, the social, religious and political influences applied to the final writing.

Only then can we have a half way intelligent understanding of anything written even 300 years ago such as the King James Version, final redaction about 1752 + or -.

This stuff may not be rocket science but it ain't as simple as most "true" believers assume. I think that most so-called "true" believers are basically ignorant of the actual circumstances under which the various religious missives were created and by whom.

For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (you)

The real meaning? Simply no as is abundantly clear from non-believers comments

amen! no thy can't