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Did anyone say the "men of flesh" were in Christ? Thus, Paul is speaking to people in Christ as He would people not in Christ. Therefore 1 Corinthians 3:1-3 teaches the unregenerate can indeed understand and receive spiritual milk which includes the gospel of Christ.

Just read it folks...

 

1Co 3:1 (NLT)
Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in the Christian life.

Clearly people who belong to this world (unregenerate) can understand and receive spiritual milk, which includes the gospel of Christ.

Stand by for yet another change of subject...

 

One of the tactics of false teachers is to make claims not based on specific statements contextually considered, but on undefined statements. For example, say I claim God put invisible pink elephants in orbit around Mars. You say show me the evidence.

I say "all things are possible with God." Then I attack, by saying by your denial that God did not put them in orbit, you are diminishing the divine attributes of God, and you deny God is sovereign and does as He pleases.

Take, "No one seeks after God." Does this mean no one ever, at any time, while unregenerate seeks God? Nope. But if you offer a more limited meaning, based on context, then the false teachers say you are adding to scripture. Never mind they did, claiming their interpretation is what it says, and any other view adds to scripture.

What is a way of finding the intended scope of "open ended" statements, rather than claiming everything imaginable is intended?

Ask the question, What is the least that God could be stating. No one seeks God some of the time or at any time? Some of the time. The context of Romans 3 indicates the idea is when a person is sinning, they are not seeking God. Thus Paul uses the fact that we do not seek God all of the time to prove we are all under sin.

There are many examples of the use of the bogus ploy, such as God would not destroy people in Gehenna because God is love. Overshooting the bounds of open ended statements can lead us into false doctrine. A sound bible study practice is to be a minimalists, being careful not to add to scripture by expanding the scope beyond its intent.

By reading something not intended into the text, which is adding to scripture, the speculators create their own God, with attributes according to their interpretation, but not actually supported from scripture. Stick with what scripture says God has done and is doing. Such as reconciling the world, crediting the faith of some as righteousness, putting individuals into Christ, through faith in the truth.

 

Note "I had to talk as though you belonged to this world" is once again ignored.

 

An Interpretive Translation of 1 Corinthians 3:1-2:

Siblings, I could not speak to you as indwelt mature Christians, but as to those not indwelt or those recently indwelt but immature. I gave you milk and not solid food for you were unable, and are still unable to make use of spiritual solid food.

Scripture makes clear the lost can be reached with some spiritual things, spiritual milk, the fundamentals of the gospel.

 

Yet another subject change post.
Paul spoke to the new Christians as to unregenerates. Pretty simple.
Why cannot any Calvinist admit to the plain meaning?
Why post taint so again and again when it is obviously so...

Here is an interpretive translation of 1 Cor. 3:1-2:
Siblings, I could not speak to you as indwelt mature Christians, but as to those not indwelt or those recently indwelt but immature. I gave you milk and not solid food for you were unable, and are still unable to make use of spiritual solid food.

Scripture makes clear the lost can be reached with some spiritual things, spiritual milk, the fundamentals of the gospel.

 

LOL, "as to men of flesh" has already been acknowledge as referring to unregenerates. Can you not stick with one story?

The answer to the question where did Calvinism come from is "the dark ages."
Why do Calvinists lack comprehension of the obvious? Blinded by preconceptions of falsehood.

 

Yet another you, you, you off topic post of clear and present harassment.
Did anyone say Paul was addressing the unregenerate? Nope - so obfuscation
Did anyone say the unregenerate are in Christ? Nope - so more obfuscation

Here is an interpretive translation of 1 Cor. 3:1-2:
Siblings, I could not speak to you as indwelt mature Christians, but as to those not indwelt or those recently indwelt but immature. I gave you milk and not solid food for you were unable, and are still unable to make use of spiritual solid food.

This is an accurate rendering of a widely held interpretation of the verse!!!

The answer to the question where did Calvinism come from is "the dark ages."
Why do Calvinists lack comprehension of the obvious? Blinded by preconceptions of falsehood.

 

Yet another taint so post...

Siblings, I could not speak to you as indwelt mature Christians, but as to those not indwelt or those recently indwelt but immature. I gave you milk and not solid food for you were unable, and are still unable to make use of spiritual solid food.

Paul spoke to the Corinthians as to nonspiritual (not indwelt) people or people recently indwelt but immature. He used spiritual milk, which includes the fundamentals of the gospel. Thus unregenerates can understand and receive the gospel of Christ.

And of course, every Calvinist will deny the meaning of 1 Corinthians 3:1-3 because it teaches "total spiritual inability" is as bogus as a three dollar bill.

Stand by for taint so, and nobody agrees with Van, and other attempts at obfuscation. Just read it folks...

 

LOL, all Calvinists do is post "taint so" with no effort to explain why something isn't so... Then they complain for being called out for obfuscation. Go figure