Bible Question:
True or False To know things in our intuition is what the bible calls revelation. Revelation - The Holy Spirit enables a believer to apprehend a particular matter by indicating the reality of it to his spirit. 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. God does not explain Himsself via man’s reasoning; never does man come to know God through rationalization. If there is no revelation, personal revelation, Christianity is worth nothing. Everyone who believes God must have this revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such a faith cannot endure the test. From the Spiritual Man by Whatchman Nee |
Bible Answer: 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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