Hi thanks for the reply,
Baseing a faith on the things seen as if they were the living things of eternal God is the foundation of paganism (out of sight out of mind) Death is death and spirit is life is life.
Never do the two become one. No creature can serve two masters.(1) The desires of the flesh and(2) the desires of the unseen Spirit of God. we have its power to work in us but it as it is written is not of us.
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Not one rudiment, molecule or atom of this corrupted creation will be part of the new incorruptible. No Sun or Moon, no night
Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
What you call
Paganism, and remember, in Biblical times Gentiles were the "Pagans", is what is in fairness in scripture.
God created all things. No thing that exists comes from any thing other than the Creator. Flesh is flesh, flesh came to exist because God created flesh and blood creatures to inhabit the earth after He created earth. He created Adam from the dust of the ground. Only in that flesh did he breath his power, life giving energy, so as to give Adam life and a soul. And on the sixth day our Omniscient Omnipresent Father looked upon all He had created and called it very good.
The Book of Genesis chapter 1.
All that is, is of and from God.
The Book of Colossians chapter 1
The Supremacy of the Son of God
15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
The Book of Isaiah 45:
I am
Adonai; there is no other.
7 I form light, I create darkness;
I make well-being, I create woe;
I,
Adonai, do all these things.
8 “Heavens above, rain down justice;
let the clouds pour it down.
Let the earth open,
so that salvation springs up,
and justice sprouts with it.
I,
Adonai, have created it.”
9 Woe to anyone who argues with his maker,
like potsherds lying on the ground!
Does the clay ask the potter, “What are you doing?”
or, “What’s this you’re making, that has no hands?”
10 Woe to him who asks a father,
“Of what are you the father?”
or who asks a woman,
“To what are you giving birth?”
11 Thus says
Adonai,
the Holy One of Isra’el, his Maker:
“You ask for signs concerning my children?
You give orders concerning the work of my hands?
12 I am the one who made the earth!
I created human beings on it!
I — my hands — stretched out the heavens,
and directed all their number.
13 I am stirring up Koresh to righteousness,
I am smoothing out all his paths.
He will rebuild my city;
and he will free my exiles,
taking neither ransom nor bribe,”
says
Adonai-
Tzva’ot. (
Adonai-
Tzva’ot = Lord of hosts)
