7angels,
It doesn't bother me that you believe I am wrong and have been deceived (I was SPECULATING that God MIGHT use whoever wants to love Him more deeply than they love the bible, but it's all a free choice of the individual).
...(it really does not make logical sense to LOVE A BOOK, does it?, just think how God feels that you do that!).
Actually, it is not just a "CHOICE" (not simply a choice of THE INTELLECT), it depends on the ATTITUDE/spirit of the believer.
Your spirit/attitude right now is to ACCUSE ME (of not speaking in love),....no matter what you think, you are ACCUSING ME and PICKING on me (because you don't mind setting your heart against your fellow man).......do you see?....the "more excellent" devotion is a matter of HEART. Only if you let your heart be kind and gentle (the discussion is NOT about MY mannerisms, I grew up differently than you) will YOUR SPIRIT be compatible with GOD'S SPIRIT....
"His Spirit in the inner man" (Ephesians 3:16).
...(who is the accuser of the brethren?,..."suggestive statements" are ACCUSATIONS).
If you refuse to stop accusing/picking on people and their actions/speech, then God's Spirit won't be truly able to witness to you fully/effectively for a "more xcellent" devotion (no matter how much you want to think otherwise).
You are not letting His 'peaceful attitude spirit' be inside of you (you are not being "compatible" when you accuse/suggest that I speak badly/wrong/unpeacefully).....are you anxious to play 'VICTIM' and crucify/persecute another person?).
Romans 8:16 "it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God".
Solid food will only truly be understood by those who willingly DO/PRACTICE what is right (picking on people and how they speak is not "OF GOD'S SPIRIT").
"Solid food is for..." those who PRACTICE/do right.
I am not a people-pleaser, I do not explain to anyone who asks.
If you believe that everything about the "depths of God" and the heart should make sense, try this....
Luke 6:35
"and your reward will be great,......for he is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish".
If you really aren't SATISFIED by/with God's kindness (have you really decided that His grace is sufficient for you?), then you are going to be grateful to others, and you will not be selfish. I am not going to explain this to you, because right now you first need to develop the habit of NOT GETTING ON PEOPLE'S CASE about how they speak or anything else (you know,....heartstuff, SPIRIT stuff).
You only think and believe "SCRIPTURALLY", not HEARTFULLY.
I've been speaking to you about the SECRETS OF THE ALMIGHTY (depths of God) and a deeper devotion that hasn't been known for 19 and a half centuries, and you respond with "SCRIPTURAL"? (look at the scriptures I did post, are they in the book or not?....THEY ARE, but they have not been TAUGHT).
YOUR solution is to simply IGNORE them and keep saying "but this, but that". Are you also upset that WE ARE NOT JEWS?. You know who we are baptized into, don't you? (or didn't your teacher masters explain that we are baptized into Jesus?)....
1 Corinthians 10:2
"and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea".
Did your teachers ever explain to you that if we decide to live spiritually inside Jesus's body, then as spirits that are inside His body......we have no gender....
"neither male nor female" (Galatians 3:28)....neither are we a Jew, so we cannot be a Gentile either.....
....some versions say "GREEK" (in those days, people were either members of Greek civilization or they were GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE, spiritually, from God's point of view, there were only two kinds of people in humanity).
If believers don't change their heart, all the intellectual understanding in the world is not going to make a difference. IN FACT, worship/devotion is to be to GOD ONLY (NOT 'God and PEOPLE',...including those IN CHRIST). We are only to show love to others AS we show love to ourself (I never kissed myself or showered myself with gifts,...I simply have no need to show love to myself....I'm sane and emotionally stable).
MAN has taught that we should 'lovey-dovey' ourselves and glorify ourselves in order to worship God properly, but God says that we should SHOW NO PARTIALITY to ANYONE (including the brethren) and that if we do, we are returning ourselves to be under LAW and we have become TRANSGRESSORS.
James 2:1 "show no partiality as you hold the faith" (give no special treatment to anyone in order to "worship God").
James 2:9 "if you show partiality,.....".
Were you alive 2,000 years ago?. EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING in scripture was AUDIBLY SPOKEN to OTHER PEOPLE (of course, some of it APPLIES to us modern day Jesus worshippers (like the doctrine/teaching about Jesus)....we are to know enough to figure out what doesn't apply to a LOVE DEVOTION TO JESUS.
Have you ever even HEARD about the "doctrine of Christ"? (so much for your glorious teachers!).
http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/translationResults.cfm?Criteria=doctrine+of+Christ&t=RSV&sf=5
Anyone who moves on (goes "ahead") to the "solid food" devotion and does not still "abide" in the doctrine of Christ ("Christ and Him crucified GOSPEL of ETERNAL purification/salvation) DOES NOT HAVE GOD.
Jesus said "I and the father are ONE" (of course God always had a SPIRIT of His own, that is why God's spirit needs no separate mention in 2 John 1:9)...
"he who abides in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son".
The Jews included only THE FATHER (they COULDN'T include Jesus, neither did they know there was A SON, so they didn't know God was a "FATHER") in their worship, but now we have JESUS as our ETERNAL/forever/everlasting purification (the FINAL cleansing).....
Hebrews 10:2
"If the worshipers had once been cleansed, they would no longer have any consciousness of sin".
The Jewish worshippers had to repeatedly seek cleansing (every year on the day of atonement, but it was really not SOUL REDEEMING)....
"For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins" (Hebrews 10:4).
They had never even "ONCE" been TRULY CLEANSED the way we are with Jesus, and because of that, they NEVER had the eternal sabbath rest in Jesus ('ETERNAL God').
'God eternal' is our sabbath because the "eternal" spirit (the Holy Spirit of/in JESUS) purifies the conscience also....
Hebrews 9:14
"eternal spirit.....purify your conscience".
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I've already been through parts of this and some of your questions/points about "scriptural" really shouldn't NEED explanation, but the problem is that you cannot tare yourself away from the book (think 'outside the box' in order to be a free thinker).
The word "bible" is not even in scripture, neither is the word "Christianity" (the word "Christians" is.....only once, and the word "Christian"/singular is in scripture TWICE).
So read the "word of truth" (it could only be spoken/heard in Jesus's time) and use it correctly ("rightly handle" it), it is the GOSPEL of our salvation.....
James 1:18
"he brought us forth by the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures".
Ephesians 1:13
"In him you also, who have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation".
Acts 13:48 "And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of God".
...and glorify the flesh that hung on the cross....
"And the Word became flesh" (John 1:14).
Acts 13:48
"And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of God".
Verses are from the RSV as always.