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Dave in Tenn:
Hey Bryant...that's the point. These thoughts AREN'T true! You are largely correct to lay much of the blame at the door of church doctrine. They are so completely nonsensical and evil, that those who barely believe can skim along pretty well, and those who believe the strongest are nearly destroyed by the contradictions.
Let me tell you what will happen if you stay in the Word and in sound teaching. Your understanding of what IS true will grow. Your faith to believe it will sprout and grow. Your ability to conquer doubts will grow. A 'sound mind' will replace your befuddlement. The Mind of Christ will gain prominence in your life. You will become a mature man of God. You will get soooo past religion and walk in wisdom and light.
We know how all this ends, Bryant. It ends very, very well! Between now and then, you're going to go from how you are to how He is preparing you to be. Along the way, you're going to pick up all the fruit of the Spirit and become Wise through everything you will learn and experience. You can't have it ALL now 100%. That's not the way it works. But there's no such thing as failure.
So, since you made it easy, I'll tell you. Satan is NOT God. ;D There will be a pop quiz on that in a short while, I'm guessing. So study up.
Kat:
Hi Bryant,
2Co 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.
v.4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
v. 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
Eph. 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
These are spiritual battles we fight, in the mind, the thoughts, what we believe. Before we know the truth our minds can be filled with all kinds of wrong thoughts. But when we are blessed to have our eyes opened and begin to learn the truth, then we need to battle to clean up our thoughts. We should not allow evil thoughts, "the darkness of this world," to stay in our head, replace it with something positive.
Php 4:8 Finally, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are right, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think on these things.
It make seem daunting at first, but more and more as you remove those wrong thoughts, even just a tiny little bit at a time, well you begin to make progress in the right direction. It's a process that takes a lifetime to complete, but the sooner you start the better.
Pro 23:7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
Lupac:
One other question. I was reading another topic, and a user (Pax) said that the early jews didn't believe God was perfect, only "more mighty" than other gods. Where is he getting this? Is there any truth in it? Thanks.
(http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,2965.60.html Last message, no one responded to him, because the topic was locked. (With good reason.))
Kat:
Hi Lupac,
That is very likely. When you try to understand the God of the OT (which is all the Jews use) without having been given eyes to see and understand, you see a God that gets angry and changes His mind and all kinds of contradictions. So it would not be surprising if they believed that God was not perfect.
When you have your eyes opened, as Ray has explained many times the Bible does not contradict. To the world the Bible seems like a gaint jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces all over the place, but with truth and understand the pieces start to come together. Only those that have been given eyes to see are blessed with understanding of the mysteries in Scriptures, as Jesus said.
Luke 8:10 And He said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God. But to others I speak in parables, so that seeing they might not see and hearing they might not understand.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
Lupac:
I wanted to tell you all that I'm doing a little better. Please pray for me. It seems that once I get one truth down, I worry about another. It's like a never ending cycle. I'm afraid that I don't have real faith, and that, you guessed it, I'll be going to hell for it. I may be afraid of it, but I don't believe it. :-\ Thank you all.
EDIT: I wish God hadn't hid the truth from all but a few. I used to really respect men like R.C. Sproul and C.S. Lewis. (Well, I still like Lewis, even though he was wrong on so many things, he hated the teaching of hell, but didn't think there was any way around it, from his point of view.) I think, how can men, being as "educated" as those two not see what the simplest can? (I'm not trying to put down Ray, myself, or anyone else, I was just making a point.) It blows my mind.
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