"Without natural affection" isn't like being autistic,
and isn't like being affected by trauma
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness;
full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful ... .
Romans 1:29-31, King James Version
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful ... .
Romans 1:29-31, King James Version
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies ... .
Galatians 5:19-20, KJV
idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies ... .
Galatians 5:19-20, KJV
The Apostle Paul had a strong message about what happens when people become reprobate in the way they think and act out. Throughout Paul's letters and sermons to the early church, he often rebuked wrong kinds of affection, wrong ways of thinking about the love of Jesus.
There was a problem with the reprobate mind during Paul's walk in earth. And Paul longed for spiritual "sons" and "daughters" to have the "mind of Christ."
Paul even noticed that many people were "without natural affection," according to the King James Version of the Bible. Paul did not mean those men were brain damaged, nor autistic, nor affected by being traumatized in life. Instead, he meant some men were perverse in affection.
With that understanding — "in the Spirit" — we know that Paul's messages about "the flesh" have to do with lust and corruption and unfaithful excesses.
Paul does not tell us not to prepare healthy food or not to attend to the things we need; but he says not to mind corrupt things of the flesh, and not to sow in order to lustfully please the flesh, but to sow in ways that bless the Spirit.
In fact, Paul is who said, basically, "Why should I repent for the good things that I give thanks for?"
There was a problem with the reprobate mind during Paul's walk in earth. And Paul longed for spiritual "sons" and "daughters" to have the "mind of Christ."
Paul even noticed that many people were "without natural affection," according to the King James Version of the Bible. Paul did not mean those men were brain damaged, nor autistic, nor affected by being traumatized in life. Instead, he meant some men were perverse in affection.
With that understanding — "in the Spirit" — we know that Paul's messages about "the flesh" have to do with lust and corruption and unfaithful excesses.
Paul does not tell us not to prepare healthy food or not to attend to the things we need; but he says not to mind corrupt things of the flesh, and not to sow in order to lustfully please the flesh, but to sow in ways that bless the Spirit.
In fact, Paul is who said, basically, "Why should I repent for the good things that I give thanks for?"
As a pastor once said, Paul, who ensured the foundation in Christ was secure in much of the early church, was used "in a mighty way."
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