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If God gave us our Human Nature, Why does Paul tell us to despise our Human Nature?

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  • 2 weeks ago

    Paul tells us to resist evil influences and become more like God.  It's that simple.

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    We are fundamentally spirits in flesh bodies. God gave Adam a flesh body so he could interact in earths physical environment, but not to live for the flesh and the world. God intended for Adam and us to use our flesh bodies to serve him, not to fall victim to the world and its ungodly ways.

    But Paul explains that the spirit and the flesh both fight for control over our souls, but they each desire different things. Flesh is made of dirt, and likes temporary, dirty things. Spirit comes from God, and cleaves to the permanent healthy things of God.

    Romans 8:5-10 — Those who are dominated by the sinful flesh nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will. That’s why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God. But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to him at all.) And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God.

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    Jhn 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 

    Jhn 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 

    "Born again" is Greek gennaō anōthen (another birth) meaning reborn from above - meaning spiritually. Its a spiritual rebirth in the image of Christ who is the image of God. 

    Heres what happened 

    1- God made Adam in Gods spiritual image. He gave Adam a flesh body also so he could interact in earths physical environment. 

    2- Adam betrayed God by choosing to live for flesh gratification rather than for the Spirit of God 

    3- God cursed Adam and all his seed with death and decay, ruining our chances at eternal life here on earth. 

    4- Later God sent his only begotten Son to die a one time atoning death for all men who would accept his offer. Prior to the crucifixion Jesus showed us how to live in Gods spiritual image again. He was humble, obedient and submissive. 

    5- So Jesus who is the image of God regenerates us one by one back into the spiritual image of God and saves our souls. 

    6- If this spiritual transformation never takes place in our lives here then we will die in Adams sinful flesh image. And then there is literally hell to pay. 

  • 2 weeks ago

    Saint Paul despises our degraded nature, due to the effects of human sin. Not our original, god given, human nature, which we hope to regain/restore, by the grace of God. 

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    "If God gave us our Human Nature"

    That didn't happen.  There is no god.

    Nobody has ever proven otherwise.

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  • 2 weeks ago

    Vines Dictionary says that "nature" is "A way or acting or thinking, which by long practice becomes "nature".  Therefore "human nature" is the result of human conduct, and not some non-biblical fabricated theory.

  • Pearl
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    cause paul isnt god

  • 2 weeks ago

    We're talking about the rantings of ancient lunatics.

    None of it makes any sense.

  • 2 weeks ago

    Paul is not against human nature, but sin, very different things. 

  • Mark
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    People have a soul and a human nature. St. Paul wants our souls to guide us.

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    Paul was the first Ben Dover theology pedo 

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