religusnut
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I read the above posts for a while chuckling all the time. The truth of the matter is that regardless of where you have studied, and what kind of degrees you have, if the Holy Spirit does not reveal it to you from the Bible you are clueless.
I have studied with numerous people over the years that came from different denominations...... and belief systems than I. They would come to me wanting more than they had. Normally they come, they see something and they go back to those that taught them before to refute, and come then back to argue again.
They agree normally that the dead religion that they are in can't give them the relationship with God that they are hunting but they refuse to accept the truths that somebody else can show them to further that relationship.
One can know all that there is about God from the scriptures, even to the point of remembering the Bible from cover to cover so well that they can recite it, but if they do not know the Holy Spirit of God it is only black words written on white paper. It just becomes something to argue about. Something for those that are ever seeking but never coming to the knowledge of truth.
Education is a good thing. The problem lies in the fact of what one learned. Just because it is accepted as being Orthodoxy does not mean that it is true.
Paul had studied under some of the best that there was. In today's society he would probably have the equivalent of a Doctrine in Theology. Guess what he did not have a clue before his Damascus Road experience.
You can argue and brag about your education systems and your knowledge forever. When it is all said and done and you hear those words, "Depart from me you workers of iniquity I never KNEW you," none of that is going to matter.
I have studied with numerous people over the years that came from different denominations...... and belief systems than I. They would come to me wanting more than they had. Normally they come, they see something and they go back to those that taught them before to refute, and come then back to argue again.
They agree normally that the dead religion that they are in can't give them the relationship with God that they are hunting but they refuse to accept the truths that somebody else can show them to further that relationship.
One can know all that there is about God from the scriptures, even to the point of remembering the Bible from cover to cover so well that they can recite it, but if they do not know the Holy Spirit of God it is only black words written on white paper. It just becomes something to argue about. Something for those that are ever seeking but never coming to the knowledge of truth.
Education is a good thing. The problem lies in the fact of what one learned. Just because it is accepted as being Orthodoxy does not mean that it is true.
Paul had studied under some of the best that there was. In today's society he would probably have the equivalent of a Doctrine in Theology. Guess what he did not have a clue before his Damascus Road experience.
You can argue and brag about your education systems and your knowledge forever. When it is all said and done and you hear those words, "Depart from me you workers of iniquity I never KNEW you," none of that is going to matter.