In our time they have confirmed that the flesh is in itself an organ. It is integral in the cooling and heating of our bodies, as well as housing our stimulus via our nervous system, and our external physical senses. It could be said that our instinct is a summary of any culmination of sensory input added to our collected knowledge of good and evil.
Having now identified the flesh as the physical foundation of our knowledge, it is easy to look at desires as familiar comforts, sensory based understanding. These understandings could even be considered atttributes of our character, likes and dislikes, passions and hatreds, fears and comforts. Our emotions are actually reactions to these understandings as we develop. That is why we seem to mature emotionally. Our emotions are simply reactions to our constant adaptation to our understandings which are based on what is placed in front of us.
Life begins at conception. Life, is spiritual. Life is not a development, life is not reproduced. Our host, this body, reproduces cells immediately after conception. That act of reproduction of cells is mapped out by the genetic code of the parent cells involved. But what is not necessarily understood, is that life causes cells to develop as a reaction to the perishing nature of time. Cells reproduce as a reaction of defense, not to create themselves. Creation is spiritual, and founded on what we could soul, which is life. All that lives came through the Word. The Word is Life.
We are in the image of God. It has been carried forward that the flesh is that image. I suggest to you, this is not the case. The image of God is spiritual and the spiritual image of God is formed out of requirement, not out of development. What that means is, cellular mitosis, genetic mapping, and physical development are all physical symptoms of life's reaction to time and space. The life that is imparted at conception; is spiritual. Life is in the image of God.
God is unseen. His Authority is His Word, which has brought perfection to the form by defeating death. Thus, requirement meets the physical in the ressurected form. What this means is, the flesh will no longer desire what knowledge found comfort in, because the flesh will be founded on the truth of life instead of it's reaction to death. We will no longer be led by our desires to do the will of those wicked being in heavenly places. Instead, our desires will glorify the will of God in His presence.
Life will no longer be cultivated to bear fruit that honors the will of the prince of the earth. Life will instead be the cornerstone of the kingdom of heaven that each individual which carries the truth, will act on. Otherwise, those who stay commited to their reaction to the flesh, will remain in reactions instead of requirement. The life in them will always desire, not knowing completeness, not knowing peace.
An eternity of damnation is very likely having desires and no will to react to. A darkness with no light. As a matter of fact, Christians go through this when they die of specific desires so that the truth mag instead live through them. They find they suffer those desires, while the will that fed those desires has been shown in grace as the will of the enemy to lead them by their poverty, their flesh. It is quite disturbing, just like what is mentioned in the gospel of Thomas.
So what does this tell us? It tells us that the flesh is very much a part of our deception. Adam and Eve found themselves naked after the flesh was left to react to what was placed in front of their senses. From that point till this moment, the flesh can be seen as the poverty that houses life, which is great spiritual wealth. We must attempt to recognize the unseen, act by it, and realize that life is spiritual and common in us all. That simple understanding, attached to the command from Jesus to love, both the Father, and one another; brings us closer together in holy ways.
The enemy relies our flesh reactions. Our emotions, our desires, and our knowledge of good and evil. All of these disguise the truth with lies.
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