whaaaa?
you have mentioned heroin often enough to make me wonder if you did that?
then again, you appear to still be here so maybe not.........
joking aside, I do think people can destroy themselves...and go straight to he double sticks
I do believe there are scriptures in the NT that indicate that...otherwise, why all the warnings?
you have mentioned heroin often enough to make me wonder if you did that?
then again, you appear to still be here so maybe not.........
joking aside, I do think people can destroy themselves...and go straight to he double sticks
I do believe there are scriptures in the NT that indicate that...otherwise, why all the warnings?
I think all works of the flesh are destructive to us in some form or other and all the warnings are justified for sure.
For me though - to focus on the warnings without having the foundation of walking by the spirit means which is the only thing that stops us from fulfilling the lusts of the flesh - can cause us to create a fear based works-based religion of "not doing things".
I don't think anyone is saying any works of the flesh are good things to be doing - from exhibiting malice and slandering others in the body of Christ to living a homosexual lifestyle.
I think the area of "tension" is how do we differentiate between walking by the spirit to stop these deeds of the body and trying to stop them from relying on our own fleshly efforts of man's will-power.
One produces the life of Christ - the other one can "mimic" this life but has no power to effect a real change in people.
This is why a Christian after pastoring a church for 20 years can do something that shocks people. The flesh is always going to be there until we leave this earth suit.
Trying to over-come the flesh with the flesh works for awhile - depending on our own personal will-power but in times of distress - it can rear it's ugly head again.
Then again there are those that say you go to hell for anything you do especially the sins that they don't do themselves and they seem to conveniently not think that deceit, malice and envy and things like these will not send us to hell like those "really bad sins". I believe that one is called "hypocrisy".
To me the real focus should be - how do we walk by the spirit?
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