What are the ten biblical terms synonymous with spirituality and carnality?

Answered by Gene Cunningham, Basic Training Bible Ministries · from The Basics, Lesson 3–3: The Promise—Spirituality

The Word of God contrasts life and death through ten synonymous pairs: being filled by the Spirit versus controlled by the old sin nature; in the Spirit versus in the flesh; the energy of the Spirit versus the energy of the flesh; having fellowship versus being out of fellowship; godliness versus ungodliness; spiritual versus carnal; the spiritual man versus the natural man; walking in light versus darkness; walking by faith versus sight; and divine good and production versus human good and production. These contrasts distinguish between the cosmic and the divine, and the visible and the invisible.

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