it is more than just feeling

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Permalink Reply by Carla on February 22, 2009 at 7:47pm

Hi Kenny,

Is your friend a believer? Has he accepted Christ as Savior? Does he have a relationship with Him?
I am just asking these questions in hopes to understand your question a little bit more.

Blessings,
~Carla

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Permalink Reply by PoemiaDei on February 24, 2009 at 7:09pm

I think these are good basic questions you have asked Carla. Too many are interpreting the Scriptures with carnal minds and reasoning that they call common sense. "Common" sense may rightly be popular worldly sense which may see the things of God as foolishness. We have to depend on the revelation enlightenment of the Holy Spirit to know the truth of His word. And all of God's children are taught by the same Spirit and drink of the same anointing. Once we ensure we are in connection with the Spirit of God, we can be assured we will see the same truth from the Scriptures. The danger is taking lock, stock, and barrel, what others, even theologians say without searching the Scriptures ourselves and allowing to make them real to us personally whether by confirming or disapproving what is said by others..

The following Scripture passages sumarizes it well:
1 Corinthians 2:9-14:
9: But as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard," nor has it entered into the heart of man, "the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."
10: But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11: For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of man within him? So also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
12: But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.
13: These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14: But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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Permalink Reply by Carla on July 3, 2009 at 2:28pm

Dear PoemiaDei,

I know this is an old discussion, but I just came across it again..

I am reading a book right now by John MacArthur called 'The Truth War'. The subtitle is 'Fighting for certainty in an age of Deception.' I have just begun reading it and it is very good.

This is something Mr. MacArthur says:

"Truth exists outside of us and remains the same regardless of how we may perceive it. Truth by definition is as fixed and constant as God is immutable. That is because real truth is the unchanged expression of who God is; it is not our own personal and arbitrary interpretation of reality. Amazingly, Christians in our generation need to be reminded of these things. Truth is never determined by looking at God's Word and asking, "What does this mean to me?" Whenever I hear someone talk like that, I'm inclined to ask, "What did the Bible mean before you existed?"
"What does God mean by what He says?" Those are the proper questions to be asking. Truth and meaning are not determined by our intuition, experience or desire. The true meaning of Scripture--or anything else, for that matter--has already been determined and fixed by the mind of God. The task of an interpreter is to discern that meaning. And proper interpretation must precede application.

Are you still in contact with this co-worker? Perhaps you could recommend this book to him. :)

Stand Strong.
Blessings, Carla

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