Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

1Cor.2:2 For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

The one thing Paul wanted to know among the Corinthian's was Christ Jesus crucified, but why? Simply put, their power and new life was found in Christ crucified. These weak Christian's may have not know, but they were dead too the world, and their old personality, and the evil tactics they had once used were crucified with Christ Jesus. They had been raised, and seated with Christ in the heavens, far above the flesh, and it sinful tactics, made new in God's love , which conformed them to a new personality that God was creating in each one of them.

They were not to be like the world mimicking the sinful flesh, and conforming to certain strong personality of teachers among them. They were not to walk in the flesh, they were to walk in the Spirit conforming to the Christ Jesus, and thus being hated by the sinful flesh, they were in a war with the old sinful flesh. There was no dwelling between the two, if they were in the spirit they had crucified their flesh.

They had moved beyond ritualistic acts of worship rather that be mimicking a personality to flatter their teachers or themselves into the invisible person of Christ Jesus. If these had been crucified in Christ Jesus they would love the truth and hate the lie, they would struggle in their sinful flesh to maintain the truth of Christ Jesus while being despised by those loving the world, which was creeping into Corinthian's congregation by false teachers.

Gal.5:24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. 5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.
5:26 Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.