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1 | Truth or Consequences | John 3:16 | coltonjunior | 219790 | ||
Blessings my dear Doc: GOD has told me personally, that everything that I read or hear from any source, must be validated by HIM as truth or untruth. The validation that I am talking about has nothing to do with intellectual knowledge or information from any written words in a book. "THE LETTER KILLETH, BUT THE SPIRIT GIVETH LIFE. (2Corinthians 3:6)" I don't believe what Matthew Mark, Luke, or John wrote in the bible is true just because it is in the bible. It must be validated by the HOLY SPIRIT within me. I need confirmation from a SINLESS SOURCE. I just can't blindly believe what is written in a book just because it is written in a book. You may be telling perfect indisputable truth, but I must first pass it by GOD for confirmation before I will accept it. You really don't want me to blindly believe what you tell me just because you are telling me? You would want me to do some further investigation to validate the information you have set before me. I know that Jeremiah 31:33-34 holds true not only for the Jews, but now for the Gentiles as well. ""33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."" Direct communication, and if GOD leads me to the library or to a person for further investigation into truths, known or unknown, I will follow his promptings. Just because what I believe to be true cannot be backed up by scriptures, or by anything anyone has written, does not mean that it is not true. That's why GOD gives us the gift of insight. Jesus said that "I am the way, THE TRUTH, and the Light" (John 14:6); and by that light I am shown the truth in all things, written or unwritten. I do not have an axe to grind, I don't know you personally, so don't take it personally. Tell me the truth, that's all I ask, and if I dispute it, that's my issue to get to the bottom of it. Thank you for all of your help. |
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2 | Truth or Consequences | John 3:16 | Val | 219812 | ||
In respect to the Jeremiah 31:33-34 passage, John Calvin explains the passage to mean that the Holy Spirit aids the believer in carrying out the will of God which is obedience to His word. As John Calvin states its not a different law. It is the same law. The Holy Spirit enables us to obey God and not be a slave to sin. Here is Calvin's explanation. The Law was written on stones, and was therefore a letter. But the Gospel — what is it? It is spirit, that is, God not only addresses his word to the ears of men and sets it before their eyes, but he also inwardly teaches their hearts and minds. This is then the solution of the question: the Prophet speaks of the Law in itself, as apart from the Gospel, for the Law then is dead and destitute of the Spirit of regeneration. He afterwards says, I will put my Law in their inward parts By these words he confirms what we have said, that the newness, which he before mentioned, was not so as to the substance, but as to the form only: for God does not say here, “I will give you another Law,” but I will write my Law, that is, the same Law, which had formerly been delivered to the Fathers. He then does not promise anything different as to the essence of the doctrine, but he makes the difference to be in the form only. But he states the same thing in two ways, and says, that he would put his law in their inward parts, and that he would write it in their hearts. | ||||||