Matthew Johnson wrote:
> In article , Jacob Rizor
says...
> >
>
> > We Certainly
> >have far less "free will" than we like to imagine- we are largely
controlled
> >by conditioning.
>
> Ah, but that is ONLY true of the "natural man" (as PSUXIKOS is so
badly
> translated) of 1 cor 2:14-15. The "spiritual man" is no longer ruled
by his
> nature, but rules his nature instead. That is why it is the faith of
the
> spiritual man that can move mountains (Mk 11:21-24).
>
The natural man is the flesh.  In this life we never entirely purge the
flesh.  Thus the Pauline prayer concerning the thorn in/of the flesh.
Thus chapter 7 of Romans.  Thus the Pauline admonitions to work at
depriving the flesh of power.  The "spiritual man" is the born again /
regenerated man who is being led by the spirit.  But either man can be
a true Christian.  This involved the existential aspect of salvation
-sanctification.

The faith to move "mountains" is already performed when man ceases
quenching the Spirit and, like Christ (Lk 4:1) walks in the fullness of
the Spirit.  To move a "mountain" is an external exhibition of the
inward metamorph.

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