No other teacher but the Light?
It is uncanny how people can look at the same verse in the Bible and come up with an entirely different interpretation. Even an opposite one. We have need that anyone teach us, as the Spirit of truth will guide us into all understanding.
"But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him." 1 John 2:27
But if you look at the various interpretations, we see that not everyone is well acquainted with the Spirit of truth. The condition of receiving the anointing of God is that we ABIDE in Him. An experience of resurrection life goes a long way to dispel the ambiguities of the higher walk...the high calling referred to by Paul.
I believe that the ambiguities can be reduced (although not entirely) by understanding the two levels of righteousness as described in the whole counsel of God. We get the human level described by God in Ezekiel chapters 18 and 33.
Without understanding our human responsibility (things like repentance, honesty, and responsibility towards faithfulness) we can't move into the higher capacity for righteousness that we get by being covered by His grace.
It is uncanny how people can look at the same verse in the Bible and come up with an entirely different interpretation. Even an opposite one. We have need that anyone teach us, as the Spirit of truth will guide us into all understanding.
"But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him." 1 John 2:27
But if you look at the various interpretations, we see that not everyone is well acquainted with the Spirit of truth. The condition of receiving the anointing of God is that we ABIDE in Him. An experience of resurrection life goes a long way to dispel the ambiguities of the higher walk...the high calling referred to by Paul.
I believe that the ambiguities can be reduced (although not entirely) by understanding the two levels of righteousness as described in the whole counsel of God. We get the human level described by God in Ezekiel chapters 18 and 33.
Without understanding our human responsibility (things like repentance, honesty, and responsibility towards faithfulness) we can't move into the higher capacity for righteousness that we get by being covered by His grace.
