A Brief Explanation On Carnality
"It might be helpful for Bible readers to see what is meant by carnality. It basically means "the flesh" ---a reference to natural born souls ---all of us, who are all sinners by the malady of sin in the flesh, of which we were born from the Fall at the beginning of mankind. We who are true saints of God tend to live in self-indulgence by nature, and want to please self ---Satan always seeking to ensure that by deceitful ways, to draw man from honor and obedience to God. We all have flesh problems at times, but "carnality" speaks of dwelling in the flesh ---often as worldliness in our interests, ways, and conversation, etc.
"Moral efforts by man will not erase the natural condition, and that is why we MUST be "born again" (John 3), as God tells us. The new saints by spiritual birth (receiving the Lord Jesus, the Christ of God) then often desire to live in the flesh and are being carnal (note 1 Cor. 3:1-4). One who seeks to imitate Christian life and is without the new birth is not of God, so is naturally self-indulgent and worldly, but a soul who is "born again" and neglects Godly order and walk is called "carnal" in the Epistles. God exhorts us to "examine yourselves" (see 2 Cor. 13:5)." - RLD brief statement to one
"It might be helpful for Bible readers to see what is meant by carnality. It basically means "the flesh" ---a reference to natural born souls ---all of us, who are all sinners by the malady of sin in the flesh, of which we were born from the Fall at the beginning of mankind. We who are true saints of God tend to live in self-indulgence by nature, and want to please self ---Satan always seeking to ensure that by deceitful ways, to draw man from honor and obedience to God. We all have flesh problems at times, but "carnality" speaks of dwelling in the flesh ---often as worldliness in our interests, ways, and conversation, etc.
"Moral efforts by man will not erase the natural condition, and that is why we MUST be "born again" (John 3), as God tells us. The new saints by spiritual birth (receiving the Lord Jesus, the Christ of God) then often desire to live in the flesh and are being carnal (note 1 Cor. 3:1-4). One who seeks to imitate Christian life and is without the new birth is not of God, so is naturally self-indulgent and worldly, but a soul who is "born again" and neglects Godly order and walk is called "carnal" in the Epistles. God exhorts us to "examine yourselves" (see 2 Cor. 13:5)." - RLD brief statement to one
