Concerning the flesh of animals: Judy, what is your understanding of animal behavior? What causes the birds to sing and the whales to migrate for thousands of miles? What causes the pigeons to be able to use the earth's magnetic field to find their way over thousands of miles? What makes the beaver know how to build a dam? What motivates the blue bird to feed its young, and to nudge them out of their nest at the right time? What makes the Monarch butterfly travel across the oceans? What motivates the loon to fly south in the winter and back north again in the summer? What tells the geese to fly in a V-formation and switch off the lead bird from time to time? What causes the salmon to travel from the ocean upstream for many miles to find their original place of birth? What tells the female salmon how to lay her eggs and what tells the male how to fertilize them? What motivates the young water snake to eat his first meal? How does this snake know what to eat or how to swallow it?
Obviously I could go on and on. Ask yourself, what motivates these animals to do these things? Is it spirit or flesh? Surely you must agree with me that it is flesh. Man also has many desires and aptitudes like those of animals. We relate to it most readily when we consider hunger and sleep, and perhaps even reproductive behavior, but it goes much further than that. I think the primary difficulty that you and I might have in communicating is perhaps in your not grasping how much human desire comes from the flesh, and perhaps not recognizing that even simple carnal desires like hunger can lead to sin. Peace be with you. David Miller. ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed.
