Bible Questions Answered:
“What is the carnal nature and how
does one come by it?”
Sandra/ Nuremberg, Bavaria Germany
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Carnal (Dictionary.Com)
1.
Pertaining to or
characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites;
sensual: carnal pleasures.
2.
Not spiritual;
merely human; temporal; worldly: a man of secular, rather carnal,
leanings.
The Apostle Paul spoke of carnality:
Romans 7:14 KJV
For we know that the law is
spiritual: but I am carnal*, sold under sin.
Carnal-Greek: Sarkikos
(Sar-kee-kos): Pertaining to the flesh, i.e. bodily, temporal, or
(implied) animal, unregenerate:- carnal, fleshly.
I Corinthians 3:1-4 KJV
1 And I, brethren, could not speak
unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal*, even as unto babes
in Christ.
2 I have fed you with milk, and not
with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now
are ye able.
3 For ye are yet carnal*: for
whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye
not carnal, and walk as men?
4 For while one saith, I am of Paul;
and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal*?
Carnal-Greek: Sarkikos
(Sar-kee-kos): Pertaining to the flesh, animal, unregenerate:
carnal fleshly.
I Corinthians 3:1-4 NLT
(Carnal-Worldly)
1 Dear brothers and sisters, when I
was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people.
I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as
though you were infants in Christ.
2 I had to feed you with milk, not
with solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger.
And you still aren’t ready,
3 for you are still controlled by
your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with
each other. Doesn’t that prove you are controlled by your sinful
nature? Aren’t you living like people of the world?
4 When one of you says, “I am a
follower of Paul,” and another says, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t
you acting just like people of the world?
II Corinthians 10:4 KJV
(For the weapons of our warfare are not
carnal*, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
Carnal-Greek: Sarkikos
(Sar-kee-kos): Pertaining to the flesh, i.e. bodily, temporal, or
(implied) animal, unregenerate:- carnal, fleshly.
People of the world, who have not been
born again, by the precious blood of The Savior, are of the earth,
earthy, carnal-fleshly, not spiritually minded.
Romans 8:6,7 KJV
6 For to be carnally* minded is
death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal* mind is
enmity (Hostility-Hatred)
against God: for it is not subject to the law
of God, neither indeed can be.
Carnal-Greek: Sarx (Sarx): Flesh,
the body as opposed to the soul, or spirit, or a symbol of what is
external, human nature (with its sin and frailties), a human being
(as such) carnal. To be fleshly minded.
All mankind is under the curse of sin.
Since the sinful fall of the first man,
Adam, all after have come under its curse. And there are “no,”
exceptions!
Romans 3:9,23 KJV
9 What then? are we better than
they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and
Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
23 For all have sinned, and
come short of the glory of God;
Romans 5:12 KJV
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered
into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon
all men,
for that all have sinned:
Galatians 3:22
KJV
But the scripture hath concluded all
under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be
given to them that believe.
How many? All, everyone that has
ever existed, has sinned, and there has been one and only one
exception, The Second Adam, The Savior!
I Peter 2:21,22 KJV
21 For even hereunto were ye called:
because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye
should follow His steps:
22 Who did no sin, neither was guile
(Deceit) found in His mouth:
We escape being under the curse of sin,
when we accept God's Son as our Savior!
John 3:14-18 KJV
14 And as Moses lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness, even so must The Son Of Man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that
He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should
not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not His Son into the
world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be
saved.
18 He that believeth on Him is not
condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he
hath not believed in the name of The Only Begotten Son Of God.
Free from the
shackles of sin, through Christ Jesus!
Isaiah 42:6,7 KJV
6 I The Lord have called thee in
righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee..."
7 To open the blind eyes, to bring
out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out
of the prison house.
Luke 4:16-21 KJV
16 And He came to Nazareth, where He
had been brought up: and, as His custom was, He went into the
synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
17 And there was delivered unto Him
the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened The Book, He
found the place where it was written,
18 The Spirit Of The Lord is upon
Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He
hath sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the
captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty
them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of
The Lord.
20 And He closed The Book, and He
gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them
that were in the synagogue were fastened on Him.
21 And He began to say unto them,
This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
John 8:32 KJV
And ye shall
know The Truth, and The Truth shall make you free.
Romans 8:2 KJV
For the law of The Spirit Of Life in
Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
II Corinthians 3:17 KJV
Now The Lord is that Spirit: and where
The Spirit Of The Lord is, there is liberty.
