Subject: why five stones |
Bible Note: Thank you Doc, I am encouraged. I still do not believe we are on the same track. I do believe that our tracks are a lot closer togeather than I thought before. I am very thankful to have the chance to hear your views. It is so refreshing and beneficial to know someone with such a love for truth and especially His truth. I am 60 years old this month and have been a Christian for only 32 of those years. I am not a scholar. I do however love truth and the scriptures. I believe that there are things that are revealed through scripture that are not only obvious. My faith is in God Himself. The scriptures are not a part of the Godhead. They are good and they are eternal but they are not God. If it were simply a matter of dissecting and analyzing data to come up with a clear understanding then we could put the scriptures in a computer and ask any question. We would be guaranteed an accurate and true answer. The scriptures are just that the scriptures. Jesus Christ is the Word of God. That is not the same as the scriptures. When Jesus said Matt 4:4 But He answered and said, "It is written, 'MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.'" I do not believe that he was referring to the scriptures. Every word that has proceeded from the mouth of God has not been written down let alone canonized. It is the Holy Spirit that leads us into truth as previously stated. The scriptures tell me that I am one spirit with the Lord. They tell me that I am in Christ and that Christ is in me. They tell me that I am being transformed into the image of Christ and He is the very image of God expressed. I have more faith in God to lead and guide me and to perfect me than I do in the devil to deceive me. I also have great faith in His ability to do that with others. The word of God, who is Christ, lives in me. His word abides in me. It is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart." Rom 8:27 and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And again1 Cor 2:1-16 And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God. Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away; but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory; the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; but just as it is written, "THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD, AND which HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN, ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM." For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ. I know this is lengthy Doc but I want you to get a better understanding of what makes me tick. I do not believe that it is dangerous , certainly not "highly dangerous ground" to allow someone to see how my Lord, The living God, leads me into truth. Especially when I qualify it with "I believe" and not "God says" or "the scriptures tell us" This has been very beneficial to me. I am now podering on how Jesus and Paul used the scriptures. Did they adhere to scripture yes. Did they see more than what was on the surface and more than their contemporaries understood yes. How. By the Spirit of God. I need you Doc. We are members one of another. Thank you Meta |