You are making a LOT of assumptions about me and holding yourself to be superior. You know nothing of me or my faith walk yet you presume to judge my faith. You tell me that I am not listening to the Holy Spirit because I am supposedly using my "natural mind" and that I have been persuaded by the "doctrines and commentary from denominational religion". What insufferable arrogance you quite apparently have. You are making a theology out of selected bits of Scripture. Why don't you simply read chapters at a time and let it speak to you instead of imposing your thoughts on it?
No! None of what you assume is what I am talking about!!
What I am saying is, everyone of us, since physical birth, are being programmed by the physical world around us, by our parents, TV, friends, school, church, etc.
For example:
When I say "The devil", most people immediately have a
cartoon picture in their minds, that the devil is of the color
red, and has a
tail with
horns on his
head. Is that biblical?
Yes! The words red, tail, horns and head, are all there, but it's not how we first perceived it, as it is depicted by a cartoon, or any other visual image that has been impressed upon our minds, during our youth.
From there, as we get older, it only gets worse, and becomes more subtle and intense.
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Here are a few more words, that have preconceived thoughts and images racing around in
our human minds: God, Heaven, Hell, death, soul, Jesus, eternity, etc.
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Many of us are unaware, that by all that false imposed imagery, of false programming, for the perception of our reality, it is heavy laden with LIES of numerous interpretations.
Whether that be done by others or our own selves,
the problem is our human minds are full of lies, just as is a full glass of dirty water.
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Now, since we can't take our minds out and put them in a sink, for a good cleaning, the erroneous information and imagery that has taken deep root, can only be
DISPLACED by God's clean "living water", HIS Truth, which is HIMSELF, which is "another Mind", aka "another Comforter", being that of the
Person of His Holy Spirit, deposited within us, "along side" of our own mind.
The word "
another", as in "
another Comforter"
means "along side", in the TR Greek.
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So then, as would be a glass full of dirty water, by pouring in "clean" water, the dirty water is eventually
displaced with clean water.