Christian spiritual change: We used to be stupid, disobedient, and foolish, as well as slaves of all sorts of desires and pleasures. Titus 3:3

The apostle Paul spent some time on the island of Crete during his trip to the city of Rome, and there he founded a fledgling Christian community, leaving his disciple Titus in charge of evangelizing the territory. Some time later the apostle sent to his disciple Titus a letter to confirm him in his position and leave him some spiritual recommendations. One of the central themes of this letter is the Christian spiritual change, the call of Jesus to a new life, the gift of eternal life, promised and realized by the third person of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit. This is why Paul began his epistle with these words: "I have been sent to proclaim faith to those God has chosen and to teach them to know the truth that shows them how to live godly lives. This truth gives them confidence that they have eternal life, which God promised them before the world began" Titus 1:1-2.
How to form integral and complete people or in other words mature Christians through teaching s was something that Paul never forgot in all his epistles. And this is so because in the doctrine of the Kingdom of God, the empire or dominion of the divine perfections, there are two baptisms, one in water and another in salt and fire, something that John the Baptist himself announced, and that Jesus taught Nicodemus, a teacher of the law, when this doctor went to see the divine teacher at night. The baptism in water is essentially the passage from a life full of sin to a life of righteousness, but the baptism in salt and fire is the fructification of the spiritual gifts.
And so the apostle Paul wrote about the life that the first Christians led before the sacrament of baptism: "We used to be stupid, disobedient, and foolish, as well as slaves of all sorts of desires and pleasures" Titus 3:3. And then Paul contrasted this fact with the grace of the Lord Jesus who calls the elect of the Kingdom to a new citizenship, a citizenship that frees men from the burden of error and its consequences. The science of wisdom and the constancy are, according to Paul's thought, the path to spiritual enlightenment.

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