Your words not mine.
It is obvious that you have gotten all hung up on our earlier statement:
“Only those who possess true spiritual enlightenment, (the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit) will be able to grasp the true significance of this chapter, others will most likely continue to believe the various imaginings of men as taught by the church nominal.”
The significance of this statement was that only those in possession of the spirit, guided by the spirit would be able to properly grasp the true significance of this chapter, that it is to be view as seen through the eyes of orthodoxy (the professing church) and not the true church, many having been fully indoctrinated into the teachings of the false church would continue to believe it as it is taught by them.
This does not imply that all that hold to this erroneous view point are not spirit enlightened merely that some have so long been fed off the husk of the doctrines and traditions of men that even though they be spirit begotten they still have difficulty rightly dividing the word (distinguishing truth and error). Or as the Apostle Paul expresses it such are “unskilled in the word of righteousness” being that they are still “babes in Christ”.
Do you imagine that all the spirit begotten are of the same level of development and understanding? Certainly a “youth” would possess greater understanding than a babe, and a mature Christian greater understanding than a youth. Understand I am not implying that I myself am a mature Christian, a copy of God’s dear son, fully grown in both the knowledge and the graces of our Lord Jesus Christ, far from it, but I have been privileged to be in the truth for quite some time now following the Lord’s great mercy when he called me out of darkness into his marvelous light.
I once held many of the erroneous doctrines espoused by the professing church, but like Paul following his conversion I now consider most of these former things as dung, the worthless babblings of men. (Phil 3:8)
Time to move on my sister, and not let words mistakenly misunderstood bog you down.
Hung up? No...it's not really causing me to loose sleep or get agitated, if that's how you mean 'hung up'. I just think that that particular paragraph shows your mentality behind your teaching here. I'm not at all sure your intent is to enter into meaningful conversation with others with the purpose of growing in fellowship and even understanding...because we can always be learning new things from others, even when we least expect it, and even if it doesn't change our doctrinal or theological stance. I think that paragraph shows that you want to soapbox and think that your understanding is...well...superior, because you have the true enlightenment of God. Your words.
Now, I grant you, everyone comes to the table believing their own doctrine to be true. I do not fault you that conviction. But as children of God, as followers of Christ, we step as the apostles did; we woo, we convince, we show with scripture, conversation and the rationality God gave us, that the truth rings outward. We should not need to try and wave our spiritual superiority around, if that is what we feel we have, in the face of others "infancy". We should not need to fall back on calling other immature in their faith, or unenlightened, or dead in true understanding, just because they disagree. God's word speaks for itself. It does not need you, or I to stand for it's true or veracity.
So present your opinion. Present it couched in God's word. And then have the confidence, if you can, of letting God back you up. Do not, from the very start, call into question those who would ask questions or disagree on the basis of your superiority. That does not and cannot lead to edifying conversation or the upholding of God's word.
