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1 | Does God plunge mortals into ignorance? | Obad 1:8 | Reighnskye | 130854 | ||
J Chrichton, You reference that the Spirit of God guides even small children to behave in obedience to God, even prior to the full formation and honing of their cognitive abilities. I'm assuming that you are saying that God's Spirit guides us even from the point of our physical birth. You then reference that if we are subsequently obedient to this guidance, that our relationship with Jesus begins to form. My specific question to you would be if it is necessary to hear a spoken gospel message (with the four spiritual laws, etc.) in order to become converted to Christ? Or could we rather as children just be obedient to the Spirit's guidance and therefore bypass hearing and responding to an actual gospel message (with four spiritual laws, etc.)? Are you saying that a child can just grow up holy from youth, without ever hearing the gospel message, and still go to heaven? It's my personal view that small children born in sin are already blinded and deafened to spiritual realities from the very womb. And any lessons that they recieve in early childhood are altogether carnally-oriented, except it be by some rare form of divine intervention. ---- "This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. "For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. "But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God." (John 3:19-21 NAS95) RS |
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2 | Does God plunge mortals into ignorance? | Obad 1:8 | JCrichton | 130970 | ||
Hi, RS! I am referencing God's Call... it is a spiritual calling that even as infants when our physical abilities are not mature (cognizant, locomotive, and intellectual), we receive from the Father... did I imply that we do not need to get to know Jesus (Scripture)? No! But God does allow even the illiterate mind to know Him (Romans 1:19-24)... ever wonder why a few week-old infant stares into nothingness and smiles with glee? Though we are heirs of Adam according to the flesh, we are made Whole in Jesus through the Holy Spirit of God. This is the relationship which I attempted to convey... that need to be with our Creator in as innate in our system as self-preservation! Christ Himself attest to this when He tells us that: "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:44) We see, our relationship with God is not facilitated by man... it is God Himself that extends His Love and Mercy to us in His Calling... as we choose to listen to the Father, He guides us to the Son, who in turn offers us Life in the Holy Spirit--one God, forever involved in man's existence guiding him to holiness: for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy." (1 Peter 1:16) Yet, since we are created in the image and likeness of God, we can choose to ignore God’s Call--we can choose to reject Him and blissfully embrace the creature (Satan and the world). In John 6:44 Jesus states that we depend on the Father's guidance to Jesus... how the Father chooses to bring us to the Son is not for us to determine... Some may be brought up by devoted Christians who instruct their children from the womb about Christ; some may be the offspring of "Christians" who have worked themselves into denominational apartheid where they are in the fringes of Christian Faith--yet God with His Powerful Spirit (the Holy Spirit) chooses to immerse the child/children in a quest for holiness that outstrips the apathy of the parents; still, some may come to Jesus from openly hostile nations/people who reject Jesus and seek to eradicate any semblance of His Divinity... It is our Holy Father that Calls us to Himself, through Jesus, in the Holy Spirit: Therefore I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit. There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men. (1 Corinthians 12:3-6--see also Romans 14:17-18; 15:16; 15:30; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Hebrews 9:14) We know that this relationship existed forever because God does not change… again, I am not contending that we can come to Yahweh by our own means; rather my argument is that our Holy Father has been Calling us to Him from the very beginning and even as infants He is there seeking us out! Christian parents have the obligation to instruct their children in the Faith, to help them understand that they belong to God and that He has always been there waiting for them to recognize that they are not alone, that they belong to Him! But the reality of the matter is that we are swayed by the world and we eagerly run after Satan exchanging the Beauty of God for the instant gratifications of the flesh! (John 3:19-21) God Bless! Angel |
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3 | Does God plunge mortals into ignorance? | Obad 1:8 | Reighnskye | 131015 | ||
Angel, Your words in your last post here are like poetry. :) RS |
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4 | Does God plunge mortals into ignorance? | Obad 1:8 | JCrichton | 131092 | ||
Hi, RS! Thank you for your generous words! God Bless! Angel |
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