Good point, it's this tent or vehicle we get around in. The physical body is dying and will, but the soul (mind, eill emotions) is also corrupt.
This is going to open up another can of worms. The soul and spirit are nit the same. They are high integrated along with our bodies.
We are partly a cleansed spirit that communes with God in a special compartment within us, likened to the Old Temple -Most Holy Place. This place is without sin, it has to be, God dwells there. The outer courtyard of our Temple however is the soul of man, our flesh, where sin dwells.
Actually the physical Old Temple is a model of our new spiritual temple.
The Word is sharper than a two-edged sword ... able to divide soul and spirit.
I really like your description there!
As far as soul and spirit, I'm thinking that what we call "soul", our sense of identity, our thoughts and subsequent feelings, that these are contained in the electro-chemical physiology of the brain, the brain that is part of our corrupted flesh. The physical body is corrupted by sin, so the mind that is produced by it's brain is likewise corrupt, producing corrupt thoughts of sin.
Being born from God, we are a new creature, a spirit being who lives in the heavenly realm, seated together in the heavenlies, hid with Christ in God. As Paul wrote, We "have" a building from God, not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.
I'm still "me", so I have the same body I'm using to function in this world, all it's memories, it's "ways", that is, habits, routines, entrenched neural pathways.
likened to the Old Temple -Most Holy Place. This place is without sin, it has to be, God dwells there. The outer courtyard of our Temple however is the soul of man, our flesh, where sin dwells.
Actually the physical Old Temple is a model of our new spiritual temple.
I've been focusing on Hebrews recently . . .
Hebrews 9:7-12 KJV
7) But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
8) The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
9) Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
10) Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
11) But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12) Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
The first tabernacle was coming to God through Law, outward representation of what the right heart would look like. Now we have entered through Christ, who has "entered once" into the holiest place.
Hebrews 6:19-20 KJV
19) Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
20) Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Jesus is our High Priest serving in the holiest place, anchoring us to the Eternal One.
It's really good to sit here and meditate on this! :) Jesus is serving as my High Priest in the Holiest Place, and in my heart, anchoring me to there.
Anyway, I always seem to open a can of worms whenever I start talking about the corruption of the flesh to be actual damage to our bodies, from original sin, and nature, and nurture, and our own bad choices. We are irreparably damaged already, and further damaged in the course of human affairs.
But it's very much what I find in the Bible, and in my life.
The flesh is indeed corrupt, but the "new man" is in fact righteous and holy and does not sin. And the gap is being closed by the renewing of our minds.
Much love!
