the mind of Christ
A few years ago, I did a study by T.W. Hunt called "The Mind of Christ". He talks about the difference between the mind of Christ and the natural mind. Just as Paul does here in 1 corinthians chapters 2-3. Paul says that as believers, we have been given the mind of Christ through the Spirit of God. God gives us the ability to understand the Scriptures through the Spirit. But, then we also see that as a believer you can still be fleshly and not spiritual when he speaks to them in chapter 3. The chapter starts this way, "And I brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to babes in Christ. I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able." One of the signs of this spiritual infancy Paul says is that there is strife and jealousy in the body of Christ. The Corinthian church is described also in this book as complacent with sin in the church and allowing b