Call no man Teacher

[2BeholdHisGlory]

How do you know who's spiritually minded and who's carnally minded? I would say, consistency. Most people who go to church can be spiritually minded - but only for one day. For the rest of the week, totally carnally minded, and that's the disconnection.

Paul says in 1 Co 3:3 , whereas there is among you *envying, and *strife, and *divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

So Paul points out that the presense of *envy and *strife and *divisions among them is an evidence they are walking as men (or what he calls carnal)

Another example in the next verse demonstrates what he is observing in them (which he calls carnal)

1 Co 3:4 For while one saith, I am of *Paul; and another, I am of *Apollos; are ye not carnal?

Whereas here, the same thing is being adressed

1 Co 1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

1Co 1:11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

Now its not just "while one saith" (as in 1 Co 3:4) but "every one of you saith" and here adds in Cephas and Christ

1 Co 1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of *Paul; and I of *Apollos; and I of *Cephas; and I of *Christ.

So the contentions among you are followed by all the "I am of's" and here he includes "I am of Christ"...

Which makes sense in light of Phil 1:15-16 which confirms that... "Some indeed preach Christ even of *envy and *strife (or of contention)

And so again, 1 Co 1:3 whereas there is among you *envying, and *strife, and *divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

Even as Paul mentions the contentions among you.

And it says here,

Proverbs 13:10 Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.