More on Body and Spirit

This is in relation to this post: https://wwwinabstentia-andrewk.blogspot.com/2021/08/spirit-and-body.html

If people are alienated from the spirit, then they are slaves to the body and will accept virtually anything in defence of the life of this body which is all they believe they have. 

Sin is slavery to corruption. Well the body dies it then suffers corruption, so this is a way of looking at the description of being “slaves to sin.” It is to be a slave to something which, in terms of its attempt to be an absolute value, suffers total defeat. And so the line from the Gospel of Luke, “To everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what they have will be taken away.”

This is why for example it is the so called progressives or liberals for all their surface pride and vanity, are so servile in their attitudes to issues like lockdowns, masks, vaccine passes, etc. A society which is of ‘the world’, as in the earthly or physical world divorced from the spirit, is already enslaved at an inner level, and thus it is so easy for this enslavement to become more actualised within totalitarian systems, if this brings the promise of offering protection for “the one who has nothing.” It is also why systems which deny the spirit, like Marxism, do not accidentally become slave systems through human error. Being purely “of the world”, they are inevitably so from their very core.

This is why what is currently happening at such an accelerated pace in the world brings with it such sharp division. It goes much deeper than simply secular issues of power.