Chuck's Gnosticism

 

Chuck wrote:

So Paul realized that the real me is spiritual. I dwell in a body; the body isn’t me.

 

Chuck also said

 

I am living now in a natural body. The real me is not this body. The real me is spirit. Hear Chuck say it.

 

Chuck Smith finds his home with the Gnostics and Greek philosophers and not with Paul with this quote.

 

Paul does not say that the real me is spiritual anywhere in the passage. The “real me” is not spirit or spiritual. As C. S. Lewis said we are amphibians. We are both spirit and flesh. The real me is body is spirit.

 

Chuck would agree with the Philosophers when they said that “the body is the prisonhouse of the spirit”. And that is the notion that the writings of Paul fought against.

 

When Paul battled the philosophers on Mars Hill if he believed that the real me is spiritual he would have been on common ground and agreed with the philosophy of the day. He didn’t. Paul spoke of the resurrection of the body which the philosophers agreed was absurd. Who would want this old body back? Chuck stands with the philosophers against Paul in this passage.

 

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