A lot of people nowadays consider themselves to be very spiritual. I wonder what they use as a definition of “spiritual,” though. Is it the deep emotions one feels while seeing or hearing something inspiring, or “out-of-body” sensations one experiences from deep meditation, or visions one receives when being intensely religious, or hearing voices in [...]
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Paul had a unique definition of “life.” Life, for instance, was not what he was experiencing in his physical body. His body was merely a vessel for his sinful nature, and his sinful nature only “bore fruit for death (Romans 7:5).” To Paul, a body controlled by its sinful nature “is dead because [...]
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It used to worry me when my kids watched horror movies. But they weren’t the least bit perturbed. “Don’t worry, Dad,” one of them told me, “I can handle it.” And obviously in his mind he thought he could. He talked as if he had complete control. Paul, however, talked as [...]
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