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Because of quenching the Holy Spirit that directs us. Many of them on both sides of different issues have been guided in a measure by the Holy Spirit, but how many times or how often does a person have to quench the Holy Spirit to come up with a wrong answer? So then we have thousands of groups...

Yes, as per your reference we are to tell it to the Church, but we differ I believe on what the Church is. But that is another subject.

Yes indeed, it does depend on that. Are we not all lost in a measure until we can see everything clearly?

Without the Holy Spirit white may appear to be black and black may appear to be white, but from the apostle Paul we read: "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. " I Cor 13:12 So then it may not be so...

What is more dangerous is when anyone who serves God goes along his own pathway rather than God's. Using all of these other sources, resources and calling on advisers who know more about some of the specifics can be a good thing, but having done that, or NOT, each person, be he a leader or...

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6 So Jesus is Truth. Anyone who knows Him absolutely would know absolute truth, but who does? However, if a person has access to Jesus does he not have access to absolute truth? Who...

Who decides which ones are black and white? You or your church leadership? Sounds to me like someone is limiting God. They want to put Him a box and He does not fit. The OT is full of types and shadows of the reality of God. In the NT we see more of the reality of God, but there are also still...

Apparently [that laborious word again] someone is in pain. Is it you or twinc or another?

Pardon me as I was not speaking of your poor vision of Paul but rather of his poor vision of the things of God as he states in I Cor 13:12. An opinion is the truth if it is true. God knows!

It is not all black and white even though you may believe so. They tried the black in white in the OT and found that it did not work as Peter made clear. The same mind is the mind of Jesus who is the Head. The rest of us are to follow and obey the Head, but our functions are not the same. I...

Sorry I was only trying to help. No offense was intended. Since you have it all, forget about the poor vision of even the Apostle Paul. Apparently you have moved beyond him already. He had a vision but it was still as though a glass darkly. I won't even ask what your vision is...

Repetition is not such a bad thing twinc. Teaching the same thing over is also not such an evil thing. My pastor, now age 92, was called to and began his ministry before I was born [1943]. While he teaches from many places in scripture he frequently repeats lessons from certain verses, because...

My uselessness is mostly exposed in the way I deal with or fail to deal with the things of this carnal world in which we dwell. This is one area in which my wife is so very important to me. She deals with all of the day to day garbage and does it well while I in my naivety often do not even...

Smart, however true it may or may not be, will not alone get anyone to the end of the road with Jesus. God's plan is absolutely and completely fair without regard to what gifts each of have or do not have. The verse that I always go back to on this is here: "But he that knew not, and did commit...

I do understand your hesitation and do not suggest that you change a thing for me or for anyone else who presses you to do so. See Paul's advice: "Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear...

Dangerous? Perhaps in one sense, but in another there is the problem of simply accepting only the literal meaning when another meaning exists, or the problem of following the meanings provided by any expert, or church group, or pastor, or minister, or evangelist without digging deeper. The...

You need to read deeper than the literal words. Certainly it was speaking of materials goods, because those were what interfered with that young rich man's entrance into the kingdom of heaven. It was also speaking of whatever it is/was that interfered with anyone's entrance into the kingdom of...

I do agree with your statement with this clarification: Following Him is not possible without believing in Him. This believing in Him is where it gets complicated for some people... but the good thing is that we do not all need to be able to understand it all. "But without faith it is...

Continuing to pray!

Even so! "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Matt 5:3 The poor in spirit is not speaking of those without any or much of monetary value. It goes along rather with what Jesus said elsewhere: "Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a...