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NASB | Obadiah 1:8 "Will I not on that day," declares the LORD, "Destroy wise men from Edom And understanding from the mountain of Esau? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Obadiah 1:8 "Will I not on that day," says the LORD, "Destroy the wise men from Edom [removing all wisdom] And understanding from the mountain of Esau? |
Subject: Does God plunge mortals into ignorance? |
Bible Note: 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 |