DavidL, I can use any material, so long as the material is not promoting false doctrine. I often quote from people who have said something true, but that is no reflection on how I may feel about other stuff they have said.

If I could only quote from perfect people, then I would never quote any man, bar Jesus Christ.

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DavidL, I can use any material, so long as the material is not promoting false doctrine. I often quote from people who have said something true, but that is no reflection on how I may feel about other stuff they have said.

If I could only quote from perfect people, then I would never quote any man, bar Jesus Christ.

I started out as one, but met someone and got married.

Just like Jesus who said, “not my will but yours”.

When we know the will of God, we either obey it or not.

Surely being led by the Spirit and reasoning with God is not necessarily at odds.

To understand the things of God is better than not understanding them.

Hence prophecy is a greater gift than tongues unless it comes with interpretation.

God says, “let us reason together”. If he says that, then who are we to argue,

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Well I didn’t bring up the nostril thing, but what you said reminds me of this:

Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

The Holy Spirit guides us into all truth. But we need to respond to that truth in accordance with God’s will.

The Spirit can guide a man, but the man still needs to comply.

What is the spirit of the law?
Does it exist?
If so, then surely the spirit of a message can be determined.

Reason is important in spiritual matters because God reveals truth and he wants us to understand that truth. He wants us to reason together with him.

Reason is not always just man trying to work stuff out, but can include pondering and meditating on that which God has revealed in order to understand it as deeply as possible.

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That is the case for Adam I guess because he was created, but not yet a living soul.

Perhaps all offspring receive that spirit in the womb?

Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Does God reason with man?

John 15:25
But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason

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Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Does God reason with man?

John 15:25
But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason

Seems bad to not have a reason for…[Read more]

Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Does God reason with man?

Could it be said that the spirit (God’s breath) gives life to the soul and the soul animates the body?

The soul is part of the soul?

Romans 8:14
“All who are led by the Spirit of God are sons/children of God.”

So he became a son of God at the baptism then?

And what was he before the baptism if not a or the son or child of God?

I look forward to your participation @mstrainjr. 🙂

Yes Kerwin, the Spirit of God dwells in men and God can be manifest in flesh just as he can be manifest in creation even though he is neither.

In denying the trinity you deny the true Deity of Jesus Christ.. who, as He Himself declared, the Spirit testifies, and the whole of Scripture confirms – is One with God.

Even this statement of your’s is untrue.

Did you not read that we can participate in divine nature and that Jesus existed in the form of God.

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