Speaking of understanding, I wonder how many understand this? That faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. And that though all things have been put under the feet of Jesus , we do not yet (necessarily) see all things put under His feet.Most people read the bible without any depth of understanding, or ANY understanding at all. Using modern parallels can be very helpful if the person using them DOES UNDERSTAND. That's the difference. While you might cite the bible all day long...that doesn't mean you understand anything. It just means you are repeating what you have learned from men, or what your intellect prefers.
But real teachers can use real examples. An example of this is my using the law of flight overcoming the law of gravity....being the same nature as the law of life in Christ overcoming the law of sin and death...
This is helpful for people who don't understand Paul's liberal use of law to mean many different things.
As someone who actually knows what the bible is speaking of...I can use other examples. But let not many be teachers.
Again, any Protestant or the odd Catholic reading the bible will use their freedom of thought to interpret whatever they prefer into the text. The bible does NOT get the final say...God does. Only the Spirit knows the truth. And very few people have anything but a little taste of that.
Repentance first...doing the same thing with more feeling won't help.
Being grateful for something and naming and claiming something based on that something is VERY different, unless one lives for the ego and by the ego. Then, these may amount to the same thing.
There is a difference between "name it and claim it" and genuine faith to be sure........however there certainly is such a thing as genuine faith as described above, and I believe true men of God are co-helpers of our faith, not destroyers or discouragers of it.
