A set of eyes and ears to live by in the one Lord and Body of Christ

[JustMe]

@Aunty Jane (AJ as I see you have been called), as I do not have privileges in that forum /thread you established for this subject, for me to respond to, I have set this same subject up here.

It is a subject that should affect any believer in Christ during their lives. It can test one's faith and walk to know if they are truly walking in the Spirit or not.

Here's the OP and post you first established as a response to my initial post, to you.

What Does it Mean…..?

Those with reborn spiritual senses and not just physical and mental senses: ears to hear and understand in spirit, and eyes to see and know and experience in spirit. @JustMe made this post on another thread and some deemed the subject to be worthy of a thread of its own…. So in answer to...

www.christianityboard.com

I will begin to unwrap this huge subject in subsequent posts.

This subject is a challenging monster and usually not addressed in most religious circles because of obvious reasons that should be exposed in this thread, by anyone who wishes to add to it.

If one is a genuine believer possessed by the Spirit of God, with spiritual eyes to see and experience and ears to hear and discern, living in the same Body of Christ, then why do we have so many variants and a wide range of belief in the same Body of what is called the truth of God in his Kingdom - displayed in terms of a wide range of denominations, doctrines and in the many ways scripture is being interpreted?

One thing that I can say right out of the gate, what we have today, it is not what the Spirit of God desires for us in our lives, in this one common Body of Christ, of one Spirit, and of one Baptism.

Ephesians 4:4-6
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 5one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.…

 

[JustMe]

A major contributing factor(s) as to why the Body of Christ is not well today and never was, since the 2nd century AD...IMO

Even a true believer, possessing the Spirit of God, since childhood, or even before reaching adulthood is already filled with deceptive ideas presented by the world about religion, philosophies, its truth in life, how to think about it, and thus what to believe in. And then if not attended to, using concerted efforts, arrested, by getting advice through spiritual eyes and ears, through and of the spirit of Christ and God, and filtered out by the age of 30 or so, it becomes much more difficult to fight off these 'deadly' worldly ideas of life that can harm the Body of Christ and the truth in life. It just gets worse if not contained. Unfortunately, many just acquiesce, out of blindness, ignorance, in favor of their club denominational views, considered the truth in life, their personal lives for salvation. I've have learned over the years that this latter view is a lie.

As both imaginative and real as I can be, what I 'see' and 'hear' spiritually of the world is the offer to live in an artificial matrix of life, artificial living that imposes itself as the real truth in living. And most buy into it and never leave it, even genuine believers. It's much easier to stay and cooperate than fight the system, as they say. And most do not even see it as a fight to even be won. It is the way God intended believers to live, in their own denominational view and bubble, cooperating with the world system of religions.

We are taught or certainly trained or persuaded what to believe in by our parents or significant others. We are told to go to 'church' the church that 'we' go to. And many unsuspecting believers do as they are told and rely on these churches, their leaders/elders and pastor and priests for the truth in life, and many are of the matrix, listening to and believing in false teachers and prophets that Jesus warned us about.

These false ones do not even have to be convincing, or erratic in presentation or personality. They 'come in' as normal peaceable souls, as the world and people around us tell us these teachers are good, civil, believe in God (a god at least) and preach the truth. Do they belong or are they a part of the true Body of Christ? I wonder, and so should others.

So are all genuine believers possessing the Spirit of Christ and the Father living today in the true Body of Christ, of our Lord? Of course not, most believers are lukewarm, cuddled up next to the warmth of matrix worldly living. They are blind to see and deaf to hear the things of the Spirit, by choice when its truly scrutinized and analyzed.

This gives a strong hint as to why we have a wide and varied view amongst believers concerning what is the true church, what is true scriptural doctrine, and what is the true or best human interpretation of scripture. Some show more loyalty to their denominational creeds over what the Father and his Son said and did.

Not all who say they are Christ's are of Christ. There is one true Body of Christ, although there are many religious bodies of Christ today.

Many on this site as well, and they call themselves 'Christian.'