Hi Cindy,
Thank you for your response. I have a problen with this sentence:
"Our Spirits are cut away from (circumcised) our flesh. In the flesh we still have the ability to sin... in the Spirit we do not. This flesh ins't going to heaven... our vile bodies will be changed and that new body will not sin."
This isa Gnostic teaching that has entered into the churc in the first century. The Gnostics taught matter (the body which is matter) is evil in and of itself. Thus it will be evil by nature and as such will conduct itself in an evil manner. However they taught the spirit could do no evil because the spirit was in search of knowledge and knew some act were wrong and those were done in the body.
Paul teaches that believers in Christ are to present their bodies a living sacrifice Holy acceptable to God which is a believers reasonable service to God.
Paul never taught the body, soul, and spirit were seperate in the manner the Gnostics did. He taught the three were one in Christ and in until death seperates the soul and spirit from th body.
There has been an on going debate as you may know over the centuries as to whther a person is body and spirit, or body, soul, and spirit. I choose the latter for alot of reasons.
Don
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