One cannot start in the spiritual and suddenly revert back to the natural (thats like hot and cold mixed) ... Ill put some scripture together and send it to Kat or the mods for consideration as to whether we discuss or not - Phil 3v10,11,12-
But the elect do begin in the spiritual while still in the physical flesh and it will 'mix' if and only if the Spirit of Christ is indwelling. We do start in the natural/physical, but we will never reach perfection while still in the flesh, it is a process of going from the darkness to the light.
Acts 26:18 to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.'
But even while we are moving into the light, still the spiritual is rather vague.
1Cor 13:12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
But we are learning and developing the fruit of the spirit 'through' the physical experience. Though there are those that do fall away after embracing these truths, they were never the actual elect to start with, those that are chosen elect God will not lost and He will certainly complete them all.
Php 1:6 being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;
John 10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
v. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.
v. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand.
If you think the first resurrection is actually now in this life for the elect, and not just a shadow of what is to come, well where are the elect from the centuries past? We have to be careful about these things that we hear and not be so easily shaken from the truth. The truth fits seamlessly together in the Scripture, any point that is the least bit out of line is not truth.
2Thess 2:2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
mercy, peace and love
Kat