If all Christians were perfect,
and none were 'carnal'...
then we would not have disagreements...
this whole thread seems to be
confirmation
that there is carnality amidst Christians...
The gnostics of the early church,
and later too,
insisted that they had a 'knowledge',
a 'gnosis' that made them immune
to sin,
and what was sin for others,
was not sin for them...
They thereby condoned all their sins,
and preached that they lacked
carnality, hypocrisy, and sin...
John preached quite strongly to them,
and pointed out that
'if we (the brethren that John was speaking
to) said we had no sin,
we were thereby lying...
He told us to 'confess' those sins,
to maintain that purity given to us
at salvation.
To avoid 'confession' of sin,
some deny sin,
and do not recognize it when it is
obvious to God and many others.
All of us fail God,
and carnality may be a harsher
term to describe it than they would like...
and perhaps we can make
prettier names for sins
for them,
but they are still sin.
Adultery is an 'affair'
homosexuality is 'gay'
gossip is sharing,
lying is spin,
and etc...
God, in the original language of the Bible,
is shown to be far more blunt
than that...
carnality is meatheadedness...
Paul called the corinthians to be
meatheads...
I bet they would have preferred
to be called 'little children'...
it sounds prettier...
but for some reason, God
thought to be a bit more
adamant, and plain, wth
those Corinthians...
LOL