The Boggy Man Babe of Babylon.

[gordon 2]

" By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” 1 Corinthians 6:15

Food for thoughts.

 

[Artfuldodger]

Do you reckon that's an actual prostitute or could be a person, entity, or nation? Maybe uniting with an actual prostitute was just one example of an individual uniting with sin?

 

[gordon 2]

Do you reckon that's an actual prostitute or could be a person, entity, or nation? Maybe uniting with an actual prostitute was just one example of an individual uniting with sin?

Yes most definitely sinfulness. The words "actual prostitute" are striking. Good King James says harlot.

"Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?"

"Dare you go to the law before the unjust."????

The harlot might be the world or the way of the world which is full of sin, the way of the empire, the way of Babylon, that is unjust by default or due her unjust works.

Maybe.

"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?"

"And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."

What Paul seems to be saying in general is that saints can't have double lives working a life made to prosper Babylon and a life to prosper God's will as a saint. There is a limit to "When in Rome do as the romans." One is a saint first if one is a saint. Paul was a Christian, a Jew, and a Roman. He made himself as a gentile when with the gentiles. But first he was of Christ?

Inwardly, "Dare you go to the law before the unjust?" Or do you do from the law and justice and to the law that is born again in you in Jesus' name?

Can you want justice from both bodies spiritual and physical and be faithful? When is the law in the world not of a harlot? I don't know? To bargain one good moral thing from the world we overlook her ten other evil things? How do we live as saints in the world of Babylon the Great?

Maybe.