@MatthewG I think if one looks at a passage such as Romans 8 which is so heartening and encouraging to the believer, there is indeed such a lot of vital truth and doctrine in it; and it's these rather than feelings which, by the Spirit of God, transform the believer in the service of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Yes,
@farouk it is agreeable that our feelings can overwhelm us in our flesh. Today my teacher put out a video that really got me thinking, that if one is out there debating and they like to do that just to be right about something it would be that of the flesh which is being prideful.
In this world today you have straight people who hate gays, black hates white, white hates black, with all of these notions, how can one stop the hate? As human beings we like to use the Bible and debate constantly but what is the point of there is no real end factor other one person trying to win an debate and change a persons mind. Some people will even get offended and say it is not loving if you decide to say you know what I’m walking away from this conversation and they will try to nag you back into it.
Especially online. Also though in real life. Like children in school, who haven’t been taught any manners.
“But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore He says: “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men.” (Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”
Ephesians 4:7-16 NKJV
my truth this my truth that; the real truth is ultimately Jesus Christ and how we are to learn how to love God and to love other people no matter what, and if they believe in the Lord Jesus and they believe in his death, burial, and resurrection… and they believe that from the heart they are given the Holy Spirit, and they can continue to grow from a child of God into a Son or Daughter in the spirit. Though our flesh gets riled up from time to time, if one can get passed that on doctrinal differences they will be miles ahead of people who are still struggling, of course we wanna try to bring this truth to light so people can choose for themselves.
Is it really worth it?
However there is no difference with a person in Christ.
“Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.”
Colossians 3:5-11 NKJV
