Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
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Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
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Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
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Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
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The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.
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Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people's nerves tingling.
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No one is more carnal than a recent virgin
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1 Corinthians 3:1:
Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly – mere infants in Christ.
(NIV)
HOWEVER, BRETHREN, I could not talk to you as to spiritual [men], but as to nonspiritual [men of the flesh, in whom the carnal nature predominates], as to mere infants [in the new life] in Christ [unable to talk yet!](AMP)
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
(KJV)
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Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the str...
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Romans 8:7:
The sinful mind is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.
(NIV)
[That is] because the mind of the flesh [with its carnal thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot.
(AMP)
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
(KJV)
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2 Corinthians 10:4:
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
(NIV)
For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds
(AMP)
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
(KJV)
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Colossians 2:11:
In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your sinful nature was put off when you were circumcised by Christ
(NIV)
In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, but in a [spiritual] circumcision [performed by] Christ by stripping off the body of the flesh (the whole corrupt, carnal nature with its passions and lusts).
(AMP)
In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
(KJV)
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Colossians 2:13:
When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins
(NIV)
And you who were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh (your sensuality, your sinful carnal nature), [God] brought to life together with [Christ], having [freely] forgiven us all our transgressions
(AMP)
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
(KJV)
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God's program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian.
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Romans 7:14:
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
(NIV)
We know that the Law is spiritual; but I am a creature of the flesh [carnal, unspiritual], having been sold into slavery under [the control of] sin.
(AMP)
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
(KJV)
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1 Corinthians 3:4:
For when one says, 'I follow Paul,' and another, 'I follow Apollos,' are you not mere human beings?
(NIV)
For when one says, I belong to Paul, and another, I belong to Apollos, are you not [proving yourselves] ordinary (unchanged) men?
(AMP)
For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
(KJV)
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For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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Romans 8:12:
Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation – but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it.
(NIV)
So then, brethren, we are debtors, but not to the flesh [we are not obligated to our carnal nature], to live [a life ruled by the standards set up by the dictates] of the flesh.
(AMP)
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
(KJV)
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1 Corinthians 9:11:
If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you?
(NIV)
If we have sown [the seed of] spiritual good among you, [is it too] much if we reap from your material benefits?
(AMP)
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
(KJV)
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