What I've found so far is the Greeks/Hellenists/Gnostics all tried to separate man into compartments. Gnostics would separate flesh from their "pure" soul to the point that outrageous sins could be commited and justified because the flesh was already corrupted. Flesh is not evil in and of itself because God made things and said it was good - including Adam in his flesh even calling us to propogate the flesh.

I will finish up the paper in a bit but, no, our spirits are in our flesh and are part of the whole working dependently with it. Regarding "can the two be separate?" Paul might have gotten transported in the spirit to heaven and perhaps for a time his spirit was separated from the flesh. What people would have seen as this happened was him in a trance or asleep. "Lights on nobody home." That's my best understanding.

But going back to psychology. The lie has to be hit between the eyes with Spirit-Truth whether an MD is behind the persons name, Rev. in front, or a Mr. Mrs. Ms., or (what's short for Master? Mr. again?)

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Bryan Wiley
Layman
Reformed Baptist Church
Louisville, Kentucky

"Seek the Kingdom of God first."