What are the three categories of people God sees in 1 Corinthians 2-3?
The three categories are spiritual believers, carnal believers, and unbelievers. The saved are divided into spiritual and carnal, while the unsaved remain unbelievers. Together these are the three segments of the human race as God sees us. The Corinthian believers were mostly carnal.
Les explains that the saved are divided into two more categories, giving a total of three: spiritual believers, carnal believers, and unbelievers. These are the three segments of the human race as God sees us. The Corinthian believers were for the most part believers, but they were carnal, still fleshly, and not growing as Paul expected. Their carnality showed itself through divisions, envying, and strife, as they had pet people they wanted to follow. Even their small house congregation had divisions.