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Schoonenberg quoted St. Paul (Galatians 5:17) in discussing the opposition between flesh and spirit.

[My suggestion is this: Paul struggles against a metaphor that has been repurposed by an (infra)sovereign religion.]

The desires of the flesh [and, now, the bones] are against the spirit.

The desires of the spirit are against the flesh [and the elite ‘bones that support society’].

These statements differ, even though they sound the same.

[Does Paul’s term ‘flesh’ veil a change of meaning of the Old Testament opposition between ‘flesh and bones’ that occurred when the metaphor was usurped by an (infra)sovereign religion?

What a wonderful question.]