Astrologer to Apologist: with Marcia Montenegro - The Alisa Childers podcast #31

[@pedinurse1]

wow I remember the interest in Jean Dixon as a teen

[@duncescotus2342]

Such a taurus.

[@TheExastrologer]

I was not a Taurus if you mean me.

[@duncescotus2342]

@@TheExastrologer Taurus moon? Rising? Cmon you're being stubborn.

[@leisalorenz320]

Hi, Alisa. I found your discussion of humans being material and immaterial and how New Age teaching separates the body and soul and a Christian worldview does not a bit confusing. How do you reconcile the verses 2 Cor. 5:6,8: "Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:" and "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." ? These verses seem to indicate a separation of some kind from our bodies that remain here and await the future resurrection and our spirits being with Christ after we die. There are also many verses warning us to "walk after the Spirit so we don't carry out the desires of the flesh", "mortify the deeds of the body/members, etc." Do you think they are ever separate? Thank you. Love your work!

[@TheExastrologer]

@Liesa Lorenz, Alisa is not saying we are never without our physical bodies because our bodies die. But Jesus had a bodily resurrection and so will all humans. The New Age view is that the body is just a vehicle and of no real importance eventually, that we are spiritual beings (non-corporeal) having a human experience, and that spirit is always superior to matter. Matter is a lower dense form . Also, the quote from Paul about the desires of the flesh is referring to the fallen nature. Flesh used by Paul usually means the fallen self, not the body. God made the body.

[@leisalorenz320]

@@TheExastrologer Thanks for your reply. I disagree that the word "flesh" usually refers to a fallen nature. The lusts of the flesh are *bodily* desires. Jesus came "in the likeness of sinful *flesh*" --NOT a fallen nature. But thanks for sharing your view.

[@TheExastrologer]

@@leisalorenz320 just saw your reply. Yes, in some cases "flesh" means the body but when Paul used "flesh" usually means the fallen nature. Context has to be considered.