Once again Robert, you post has proven that you have no understanding of the NT, or anything that Paul teaches, regarding how a person is to receive revelation from the word of God
So I'll tell you, and then Robert, you can again quote me in a future post without naming me, so that you can pretend next time, that you knew it all along.
Its very simple, Robert.
The bible, is a spiritual book, that speaks only to the born again again Spirit as/by REVELATION.
This has nothing to do with coming to the bible with a child like mind, tho you do qualify.
I agree with you about that fact.
Listen,
The bible has to be Spiritually Discerned, by the born again person like this..
= "He that is Spiritual, discerns all things"..
And that is not talking about a Cultist, a heretic, who pretends to be spiritual on a FORUM, and posts endless verses, endless redundant Threads... in their lame and deceitful attempt to CON and FOOL real believers, into thinking that this verse posting liar, is "spiritual".
So, to understand the word of God is only by being literally connected to the Spirit of God, by being born again into the Spirit of God by the Holy Spirit of God.
And once you have that, then God will reveal to your Spirit the LIGHT of Revelation, that is the "discernment" that Paul teaches is to "rightly divide" the Word of God.
Once again, you show a case study of rejecting something, without showing why. I really do believe there are Christians that reject the truth of Scripture, simply because they don't like it. It's the 'faith alone' syndrome of thinking our own faith alone is all that matters. They only believe what they want to believe, and they believe what they want to believe really does matter to God, because they are saved and justified by their own will-power to believe it.
They think they can doctrinally speak their own heaven and earth into existence, because God will create it for them, as though they were their own word of power proceeding from the mouth of God. It's the old lie of that old serpent the devil, who says man can become as gods in their own right, to choose for themselves what is good and evil, and then do both good and evil forever, and it must be acceptable to God, simply because they believe it.
I don't like the word 'connected'. It's used by Christians who think the family of God is a social network.
I prefer Scriptural words to speak of the spiritual things of God, such has having the Spirit dwelling within our souls.
Rightly dividing the word of truth, begins with first rightly dividing between what is written, and what is not.
A trademark of false teachers, is to say a lot of things that are not written in Scripture, but are only from their own mind and imagination, which is produced by their own faith alone. Even Balaam had enough righteousness to know the difference between the true and a lie:
If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak?
Unfortunately, I can't make another teaching from anything you've said here, because you really haven't said anything worth quoting. But, I'm glad to see you've returned to the flame once again. I really thought you finally had enough of me, when I challenged you to leave me alone. In any case, I certainly hope your bottomless well hasn't run dry. I'd love to see some new way of erring from the truth from you.
It truly is fascinating to see how the mind of sin works. Sometimes I stand back in astonishment, when I understand exactly where they're coming from, because I could never have thought that way on my own. Like John, I actually have a sense of admiration for it's twisted ingenuity:
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
And speaking of spiritual things of Scripture, the blood of the saints here is not carnal, but spiritual, because our warfare is not carnal but spiritual, in casting down lies of vain imagination taught for truth of Scripture.
One of the great tribulations of the elect is to endure false doctrine, without swallowing it down into the heart, and becoming a twofold more a child of hell, than the one proselytizing them.
False apostles of a cursed gospel, just love to convert others to their own faith alone, because they actually believe there is strength and safety in numbers, when all it does is ensure their own destruction, by defiling the temple and body of Christ: they lure the ingorant in Christ to once again do those works of flesh, that they were clean escaped from.
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children.
They cannot cease from sinning, because they don't want to, and so they imagine for themselves doctrine enough to justify themselves, while continuing in sin.
One such lie is so silly, that it only works with silly children: Unrighteous works of the flesh, are no more sinful for certain Christians to do, that have learned to cast off the law of Christ altogether, by the power of their own faith alone. They imagine they can no longer by judged as sinners and condemned as transgressors against any law, that says fornication, drunkenness, theft, etc... is a work of the flesh. They cast off any such law by two means: Because it's law, and especially because it's law
written on paper. And so, they can now freely do any of those works of the flesh condemned by the law of Christ in Scripture, with no more condemnation of sinning. Voila! I can do works of the flesh, as I like, with no more condemnation, because they are no longer sin to me. All because I have doctrinally done away with the law on paper, that calls them unrighteousness and sin.
That is a classic one that I've shared with other Christians, and they are just as astounded as me, when they understand it. They just can't believe any Christian could even think like that, much less believe and do it. Some even think I'm making it up, as though I had the delusional capacity to do so. I have the ability to understand, and even teach it, if I wanted, but I could never think it up for myself. After all, I'm not trying to justify myself without works of faith, while still doing unrighteous works of the flesh.
I'm not trying to be a self-justified Christian sinner. And the more I read things from those who are seeking to be unrighteous Christian sinners to the grave, the less I want to even think like them, much less be like them.
