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The spiritual man was those inspired writers of the bible who had miraculous inspiration to receive words from the Holy Spirit and write them down so the natural men (who is non-inspired) could read those words and understand.
Eph 3:3,4 Paul was a spiritual man who was inspired to receive revelatory words, wrote those words down so those words could be read and understood by the natural man who was not inspired.
Eph 3:3,4 Paul was a spiritual man who was inspired to receive revelatory words, wrote those words down so those words could be read and understood by the natural man who was not inspired.
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See Gal 6:1; 1Co 1:14-16.
Everyone who is born again of the Holy Spirit is a spiritual man.
Yes, Paul was a spiritual man, as are all those who born again of the Holy Spirit (Jn 3:5).
You don't know the NT very well, do you?
Paul was more than "inspired" (the word is "God-breathed," theoneustos),
Jesus spoke to Paul personally, giving Paul what he presents in the NT.
See Gal 6:1; 1Co 1:14-16.
Everyone who is born again of the Holy Spirit is a spiritual man.
Yes, Paul was a spiritual man, as are all those who born again of the Holy Spirit (Jn 3:5).
You don't know the NT very well, do you?
Paul was more than "inspired" (the word is "God-breathed," theoneustos),
Jesus spoke to Paul personally, giving Paul what he presents in the NT.
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It is the Scriptures that are "inspired" (God-breathed, theoneustos).
The writers were not God-breathed.
The writers were either witnesses of Jesus (including Paul, to whom Jesus appeared and also spoke at length),
or they were taught by the witnesses of Jesus.
All those who are born again are spiritual.
The writers were not God-breathed.
The writers were either witnesses of Jesus (including Paul, to whom Jesus appeared and also spoke at length),
or they were taught by the witnesses of Jesus.
All those who are born again are spiritual.
Inspired scripture could not be written by uninspired men. The apostles were inspired men, selected by God to receive His inspired words to write down.
2 Pet 1:21 "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." These men were inspired, spiritual men enabled by God to receive His revelatory words. These spiritual men were "moved", passive voice meaning to carry. These men were passively carried by God's influence, the Holy Spirit moved/carried these inspired writers to fulfill His purpose.
See also 1 Pet 1:10-12 where inspired/moved/carried men did not understand all that God gave them by inspiration by the Spirit of Christ operating within them guiding what they spoke/wrote.
No one today is a spiritual man that is moved/carried by God's spirit in receiving revelatory, inspired words from God.
2 Pet 1:21 "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." These men were inspired, spiritual men enabled by God to receive His revelatory words. These spiritual men were "moved", passive voice meaning to carry. These men were passively carried by God's influence, the Holy Spirit moved/carried these inspired writers to fulfill His purpose.
See also 1 Pet 1:10-12 where inspired/moved/carried men did not understand all that God gave them by inspiration by the Spirit of Christ operating within them guiding what they spoke/wrote.
No one today is a spiritual man that is moved/carried by God's spirit in receiving revelatory, inspired words from God.
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1 Cor 2:13 speaks of "words" given to the inspired apostles by the Holy Spirit, so what they wrote were not their own words but words they were "moved" by the Holy Spirit to write. No one today are spiritual men moved by the HS to write inspired words.
So the spiritual man were inspired/moved by the HS to receive words from the HS.
The natural man were those that were not spiritually endowed by God, not "moved" to receive words from the HS. This 'natural man' has nothing to do with the Calvinistic idea that men are "unregenerated" and unable to understand God's word unless the HS first "regenerates" them. This idea puts fault and blame upon God for those left "unregenerated? and unable to understand God's word.
Coffman Commentary:
The natural man ... is rendered from the Greek "physical man," and has the meaning indicated by Macknight, being that of "an animal man."[36] It is an abuse of this passage to make it mean that unregenerated people cannot understand spiritual things until God, in some independent action, opens their hearts, or regenerates them. The receiving of the truth by the unconverted is not in view here at all. DeHoff gave this exegesis:
Paul means that ordinary man cannot receive or give a revelation from God, because God has not selected him and filled him with the Holy Spirit. Only the apostles and certain other writers of the New Testament were so selected and guided.[37]
The application of this in its primary context is that none of the brilliant orators of Greece had the slightest knowledge of the wisdom of God, such wisdom appearing to the sophists as foolishness.
[36] Ibid.
[37] George W. DeHoff, op. cit., p. 32.
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