The reason is that we expose ourselves by the way we think. God is looking for us to believe from the innermost part of us. The inner man is in the deepest part of us. Many people believe from a superficial part of themselves (the outer man). There is no depth to the outer man...it's all about survival and advantage and putting on a facade. The outer man is connected to the law of sin and death.In my young life as a Christian, I've come to recognize that the great schism in Christianity is between Calvinism and Arminianism. Monergism vs. Synergism. OSAS vs. Conditional Salvation.
If I'm being honest, I must admit that both sides have scriptural support for their views.
Why did God allow this to happen? He could have written the scriptures in such a way that would have fully supported one position over the other; God did not. How come?
No flaming.
God bless!
About half of believers have no depth of soil (see the parable of the sower). So in order to expose the shallow believers, the truth is given in a polarity...2 poles. Like a magnet. Without the two poles coming together there is no power. So then people will read the Bible and shallowly believe having one pole of the truth (without power) is enough to save them. This flies in the face of the truth. So the Bible warns us about having a form of godliness but denying the power.
Whatever pole a person chooses to believe in he will deny the other pole thereby denying the truth.
And the more you try to convince the outer man that they are wrong about what they believe the more they will defend what they have accepted...thinking that you are wrong for NOT being as exclusive as they are by rejecting half the truth as they do.
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