Reviving Biblical Christianity (The Way) Part 2

[Laurina]

I read it when I was very young and puffed up with knowledge. It only served to puff me up more. However, for the right person...at the right time...it can be very helpful

Here it is: The Spiritual Guide which Disentangles the Soul

Thank-you!! :)

 

[Lizbeth]

I was confused earlier but it’s my normal state so I just let it lay, but I’ll bite now. How do these 2 statements NOT line up?

#1 Leaning on our own understanding causes us to not be able to understand or resolve apparent contradictions in scripture.

#2 Lean not on your own understanding, commit all your ways to Him and He will guide your steps.

They appear to line up to me. (I’ll admit that when she said it I had my same earlier reaction of needing to get my hearing checked because she said something true but couldn’t stop to think that her never ending quest to line things up might in fact be caused BY leaning on her own understanding or the understanding of other men who made a doctrine and it sounded good to her.)

Well I'm glad we sorted that out. Sometimes we just need to take a break and then come back to look at something with fresh eyes as it were. I know I need to do that at times.

The bible says to test all things, and that is what I try to do. It just happens that I don't like loose ends for some reason, maybe it's just a stubbornness in me, I dont' know. Jesus said to ask and it will be given, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you. And if any lack wisdom we are told to ask the Lord who will give it liberally. But I know this isn't an exact science, it is a faith walk, and we need to remain open to the Lord correcting or tweeking or enlarging a thing as we have need, or as time goes on.

 

[Lizbeth]

For sure, there are things that we mourn but one of the many things Christ came to do was to give us a clear conscience from sin.

We have a clear conscience because Christ freed us from the law and all things are lawful for us. Those who accept that liberty usually don’t sin much any way because they have the fruits of the spirit, a new nature. But if they slip up, they ask for forgiveness and move on, they don’t dwell on it.

I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed with this subject still. But maybe if we tackle it a bit a time.

We need to look at the whole counsel of God, taking all the scriptures in balance with one another, rather than isolating one verse.

Where it says All things are lawful, but not all things are expedient/helpful. We have to balance that with where it is also warning in that very same 1 Cor 6 passage of scripture, part of the context of that verse, that people who are living in sin will not inherit the kingdom of God. If we come to faith in Christ and keep living or go back to living in sin as we were before knowing the Lord we will disqualify ourselves. Pig returning to the mire, dog returning to its vomit.

1Co 6:9-10
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,[fn] nor sodomites,
nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

And the bible says this:

Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, ( I understand the grammatical tense there as being "if we keep on wilfully sinning...")

Says elsewhere that God is not mocked.....there are so many warnings in scripture not to abuse God's grace essentially. A three-fold cord is not easily broken, but it certainly can be. We will prove or disprove our faith by how we live.