The Bible says in Ephesians that we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. In Galatians it says that the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh. Two realms coexisting. Is it possible that some scriptures may have a physical and spiritual application? Remember that it is written that the old covenant was a mere shadow of the new one. The old was a physical application for the new teaching.
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that...