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1 | True or False | 1 Corinthians | Ray | 102930 | ||
Hi Asis, Ephraim did not give you a "true or false" answer to your question and I probably won't either. But this requires some deep thinking does it not? I think that Ephraim's Scripture for his answer is connected to the thought of Watchman Nee that I would speak to. He said, "There is but one kind of knowledge concerning either the Bible or God which is valuable, and that is the truth revealed to our spirit by God's Spirit." "Revealed to our spirit by God's Spirit." That is the part of l Corinthians 2:10 that was skipped from his quote. 1 Corinthians 2:10, NASB, "For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things..." 1 Corinthians 2:10, NKJ, "But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things..." When I look at the two copies of Interlinear Greek that I own, I find that the manuscripts differ in that "His" is not present. I would like to think that they are both correct. So my personal copy has penciled in right now, "For to us God revealed them through His spirit; [sic]..." I would further go with the King James in making spirit lower case for verse 12, "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God." So what I am saying is that the thoughts of God are known by the Spirit of God. The thoughts of man are known by the spirit of the man which is in him. We can not know the thoughts of the Spirit but we can know the things given to us by Him which are spiritual. In other words I am speaking of the difference between God and us. He is Spirit and we are spirit. We can't accept the things of the Spirit of God unless we are spiritual; we are taught by the Holy Spirit who combines spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. These things are revealed through His spirit. So if Watchman Nee equates "intuition" with our "spirit" then I would agree, that it is true that "The Holy Spirit enables a believer to apprehend a particular matter by indicating the reality of it to his spirit." From the heart, Ray |
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2 | True or False | 1 Corinthians | Asis | 102992 | ||
Ray I think you've got it. I look at the word "S"pirit as (God's) and "s"pirit as ours. God has given us His Spirit to indwell us. His Spirit communes with our spirit. His Spirit reveals the thoughts of God, the truths of God to us via our spirit. When God through His Spirit reveals a truth to our spirit we know it is the truth. The mechanism of "we know" is what Nee calls intuition. When Jesus revealed Himself to us "we knew" He was who He said He was. How would you describe the reception of that knowledge. Nee uses the term "intuition" and when you think about it fits. When I asked Jesus to be my Lord and Savior I KNEW that the Bible was God's word and it was absolutely true. No one has been able to convince me otherwise. I just know. Consider this from The Spiritual Man: . . . What then can man do other than deliver himself into the hands of God for Him to work? His spirit (man's asis) shall remain forever dead unless he confesses that everything pertaining to man is useless and unless he stands in the place of death with the Lord Jesus and accepts His life. Man's way cannot envisage acceptance of the Lord Jesus as Savior and a quickening of his spirit's intuition, but insists on substituting his mind for intuition. He thinks and cogitates until he creates many philosophies, ethics,or religions. But what is God's pronouncement? Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. [KJV] However intensively man may contemplate, his thoughts are earthly and not heavenly. After regeneration, God enables our intuition to know His thought and to apprehend His way so that we may follow HIM. . . (me now) This is what Pauls is saying by the scriptures in Ephrim's post. We cannot understand the ways and thoughts of God until we have the Spirit of God residing in us and allow our spirit to reveal His thoughts and ways to us. We just know - by intuition. Comprende? Si y No |
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