Forgiveness is not a process. Mercy is not a process. Love is not a process. Holiness is not a process.@Episkopos, I personally don’t care what you may believe is right or wrong but this is the last message I’ll send your way.
I’m not trying to battle anyone here; because your saved by faith through grace and the learning process can only be done if a person desires to learn anyway a total choice.
Not to say you need to learn anything but there are people out there who are still learning and growing into knowing who God is and who the Lord is out there today.
You know there is a process.
Would you like to share your testimony?
I use to hate people. And sometimes I still have that hate in me; but through the PROCESS of TIME; one learns through the mistake that are made; and when the Process of taking time to read the Bible comes on the scene.
It’s needed.
It’s important.
It renews the mind.
Let me ask you a question; even though when you first became a believer in Christ and received the Holy Spirit and you gave your life to God.
Was you just suddenly perfect? Or Mature? I know I wasn’t.
I can honestly say when I started really reading and learning about Jesus by myself I started becoming judgmental on everyone around me; thankfully though a teacher taught me that it’s not about being judgmental; it’s about growing into the vine who is Christ.
If you abide in him he will abide in you, which brings forth compassion, kindness, forgiveness, love, joy, forbearance, carrying others burdens and over all these are naturally not in our ability to do; they are form the spirit.
Therefore why do you question the understanding that; no one comes to God perfect or mature. They all come as children of God into the kingdom by faith; children meaning they have the spirit but they also get into their flesh and have arguing and bickering. Those who continue to grow in the spirit dying to the flesh and dying to sin; make and effort and choice to ask God to help by the spirit to overcome their natural tendencies of the heart which are all self predicated and not focused on God and others instead which is where a person should be in their heart.
Therefore how is there no process?
All of these things just are. But to mature a human being takes a long time. Why wait that long before seeking God's face to be filled with His Spirit?