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That is not so. Not everybody passes the training. In the NT there is a 50% failure rate... at least in the parables. But the people who left Egypt had children. These were trained in the wilderness to trust in God so as to possess the land. But in your haste to spout an errant opinion...you...

They were BOTH Jew and Gentile. There is no distinction in Christ. Where does Paul say...to the Gentiles that are living in Corinth??? It is to the saints and the faithful brethren. This includes all who are following Christ. Paul always first went to the synagogue in any given city. Read your...

Another picture of being led by the Spirit was in the Israelites being in the intermediate zone between being saved from Egypt and saved TO Canaan land. The forty years in the desert were training. A lifetime of training. Or seemingly so. The people were led by God by the cloud by day and the...

Think consistently. Never does any biblical writer write to Gentiles in any general sense. Paul never addressed a letter "to the Gentiles." Paul wrote to believers in Corinth, Ephesus, Galatia etc...but never to we modern people...never any modern cities. Can we take these letters for ourselves...

:) I see that it is quite necessary that we spend time...a lot of time really, seeking to be led by the Spirit. I can only imagine not having to learn the deeper lessons of surrender and humility so as to never depart from the Lord's presence. I liken the sparks of periodic encounter to...

OK So here's a dialectical joke from Yogi Berra. "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." :rolleyes:

The bible as a whole is dialectical...seemingly contradictory because there is more than one thing going on. When both seemingly contradictory poles are both held up together the truth is revealed. So the biblical dialectic is that there is the natural realm...that we can perceive with our...

It is interesting to note that Jacob was also Tam...as it says in the Genesis. He wrestled with the angel and came out Shalem...having an intimate acquaintance with God. But he had to struggle with his tamim to get there. So then for him the struggle was successful. But for many it isn't. Jacob...

Now here is a good reference that shows being led by the Spirit... Acts 9:10 Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias; and to him the Lord said in a vision, “Ananias.” And he said, “Here I am, Lord.” 11 So the Lord said to him, “Arise and go to the street called Straight, and...

In your skewed opinion based on armchair religion. The irony in this is that you would have God to be incapable of doing in you anything that you can't already do. In the biblical world...that's just unbelief. So you are waiting to be redeemed at some later unspecified date...and railing...

Ez. 28:15 From the day you were created you were blameless (tamim) in your ways until wickedness was found in you. This is describing the fall of the devil. Likewise a novice in the faith should not be put in a position of authority lest he too come under the condemnation of the devil. So we...

In your own theory that is. But in practice people remain people. You repel the truth rather than accepting it. So then you are trying to be the filter of truth with your own mind. And many do this...which makes for body parts laying around....not coming together. So then the Body is...

The word for perfect in this passage is "tam"...meaning innocent of evil. So how can God destroy the innocent? Well the devil also was Tam when he was created. That is until a certain time where he was tested and failed. So then it is the visitation itself that tests a person. Does God take...

HI SBG In both cases it is a lack of holiness in the time of visitation of God. Righteousness is NOT holiness. People in the OT were expected to be righteous. But also to recognize holiness when God was present. Some of the righteous do so as to purify their garments...and some don't which...

So does that work for you? Have you met the Father...gone to the throne room of God? Walked in His light and presence? Are you saying what you do by experience or because of a formula you read about? Or is this only about what you think will happen after you die? Catholics think like that. That...

Now being led by the Spirit doesn't mean that God will do our thinking for us. He doesn't tell us HOW to think...just points us in the right direction. It may take many years to realize the purpose of God in what was simple obedience to God at that time. I have a little story for this. There...

Fear comes about by proximity to the living God. But that fear is offset by the attraction of love. So then there is both in an encounter with God. But the fear of God also comes to us in the conviction of the Holy Spirit...that leads us to repentance. Am I afraid of God? Both in love with...

Now some would say...Isn't salvation based on repentance and faith but without the fear of the Lord? But I see the fear of the Lord covering both belief and repentance. One cannot fear someone they don't believe in. And if someone truly fears the Lord...repentance is likely to follow. I am...

There are they who say that we are saved by...Jesus plus nothing"...as if God wanted us to relax our way into the kingdom. These are they who are overly afraid of "works". But nobody is saved in a vacuum. We are ALWAYS doing works...whether they be works of the flesh or the Spirit. It is...

In Christ is the only place you can find a righteousness that is not your own. Don't be adding in ideas that aren't there. It is a good thing to BE righteous. But our righteousness is insufficient for what God wants to do with mankind. To make us like Christ. Only in Him can we walk as Jesus...