DavidL. You have elevated a developed doctrine over the Word of God. This doctrine has become the filter by which scripture passes to your mind and heart.

I have kept it very simple..
You cannot have the Father without the Son or the Spirit..
The Three are One in Unity – (Tri-Unity)
As revealed in Scripture.

Put it another way.

You cannot have God without his son.

This is true, but you would have to deny that because the one true God is not exclusively the Father to you.

How come you do not s…[Read more]

@DavidL

SEEING in your heart the reality of Jesus, through the inspired Word – (as opposed to the shifting sands of theological interpretation).

Here is the rock that Jesus built HIS Church on.

Matthew 16:13-18
13 Jesus came into the country of Caesarea Philippi. He asked His followers, “Who do people say that I, the Son of Man, am?”
14 They…[Read more]

Thanks Kerwin.

DavidL, if you throw away all reason and sensibility that God gave you, then you can believe in anything because you won’t need to check them out and test them, simply because you refuse to understand them. If the consensus was that God was five members, then you would preach that, lest you be the different one and challenge…[Read more]

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.

This post was nothing to do…[Read more]

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,

So be led by the Spirit, yes.…[Read more]

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.

Take the Trinity…[Read more]

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

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?

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]