Paul’s teaching also contradicts the concept of ‘carnal Christians’ which is popular today. There are many people who believe that the reason why so many who profess to be Christians have unchanged lives is simply that they are Christians of an inferior quality. They teach that such people stand in need of some experience of full consecration, or a ‘baptism in the Spirit’, or something else which will make them what they should be. Different versions of this teaching use different terms, but the
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