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Mountains in the bible are often a metaphor for big nations, while hills are often a metaphor for small nations. Isaiah 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills...

According to the scriptures in Matthew 4:8-9 & Luke 4:5-6 the devil was tempting the Lord with the glory of nations at their greatest moment in time in history. This time would therefore be when the dragon (Satan) vests the beast with his power causing the beasts' ascension from the sea, which...

Hello Journeyman, While it basically is the lusts of the flesh that the devil tempted the Lord with; one must also incorporate the full context of the Word in Matthew 4:8-9 and Luke 4:5-6 to understand what the Lord was tempted with. In those scriptures the worlds nations are at their pinnacle...

In Matthew 4:8-9 and Luke 4:4-5, the devil takes the Lord to an exceeding high mountain (a very big nation), and all the other kingdoms of the world at a moment in time when they are in their full glory, and tempts the Lord by offering Him all that these nations have, if the Lord will just...

The following verses in Hebrews 12:26-27 where the Lord shakes the earth, causing all the things that are made to be shaken out, is in reference to the great tribulation in which many who now profess themselves as Christians will fall away. This is when family members who fall away, then turn in...

There are many different perspectives on what Christianity means; the vast majority of which today are at total odds with what Christianity was in the early first century. In the gospels Jesus describes they who love their neighbor as those who do the will of God, while they who do not love...

OK. I'll stick to believing in being saved from my carnal nature sins by Christs sacrifice should I choose to leave my sins and pursue the Spirit. Such a perspective correlates and incorporates the whole Word into one clear picture, while other perspectives that incorporate just bits and pieces...

While we cannot earn salvation from the flesh by either what we do or do not do; leaving our carnal inclinations behind us is so that we can go for the spiritual that is God, in order to be adopted by God. It is therefore our reasonable service to present our bodies as a living sacrifice (Romans...

Being sealed with the Holy Spirit I see as becoming one with God, which would then also mean my being adopted by the Father. Correlation.

Correlations in scriptures to confirm what the Lord is telling us.

Those whose conversation is in heaven with God are spiritually inclined beings. My not living for my flesh, is not doing a work for salvation; it is my reasonable service, presenting my body a living sacrifice (Romans 12:1). Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God...

The dogs, evil workers, and the concision to beware of are the carnally inclined, who are not believers in God/love and love for their neighbor.

Who does one have a conversation with in heaven when one prays in the Spirit?

You first have to trust in the Word of truth, the gospel of salvation, which is to be spiritually minded, and not carnally minded, where after believing in for some undetermined amount of time, one is then sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, being adopted by the Father.

Those whose conversation with God is in heaven are spiritual individuals, and not carnal lovers of their flesh/belly.

The many in verse 18 are carnal individuals whose true God/love is their flesh/belly. Whether they were ever real Christian believers in love for God and their neighbor, I do not know. They did, however, have the chance to overcome their carnal inclinations while on the earth, as Christ made...

If you wish to bring in suppositions on who those in Philippians 3:18-19 are, other than what is clearly specified, you are then adding words to the Bible that aren't there. Such endeavors distract away from what the Lord clearly wants to make known to us, that individuals whose God/love is...

It was a rhetorical question, which I answered, in that true salvation is where we are now made free with Christ's sacrifice from having to serve our flesh, should we choose to overcome it. If we choose not to overcome our flesh, however, we are then saved from nothing, with our God/love...

The context of Philippians 3:18-19 is Paul weeping over those whose God/love is their belly/flesh. There is no inference to believers in those two verses.

Why would Paul weep for those in Philippians 3:18-19, if they were not members of the body of Christ at some point? But you are right, that those whose flesh is their love, are enemies of the cross.