[D-fendr]

If the part of us that is flesh causes us to sin, it is better to pluck it out than to lose our soul. Humanness is secondary to the matters of the soul. I could do without this body.

This sounds a bit gnostic. Do you view human instincts as inherently evil?

[tired&retired]

Matthew 18

8 “If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be cast into the eternal fire. 9 If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into the fiery hell.

[tired&retired]

Do you view human instincts as inherently evil?

Human instincts are neither good nor bad, they just are. It is all part of the growing in spirit process.