I think this op is unnecessarily complicated and just vague enough to engender responses that indicate an understanding not intended by the author
More than half the people in this forum avoid it simply because they do not think or speak in that manner
I dunno, but if you want to discuss something, maybe direct yourself to your audience/responders or keep disagreeing with their posts
and they will argue their point to the death as this forum illustrates
I don't deny the premise...it just might be too complicated for folks who do not seem able to discuss salvation without offering several varieties of unusal perceptions.
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this OP is unnecessarily complicated and 'just' vague enough to engender responses that indicate an understanding not intended by the author.''
As is often the case we may imbibe meanings that on face value are at least a plausible and implied 'likely' claim. That's your claim I am writing about of course.
This OP was very simple to read, and whilst it contained a small number of meanings, those meanings are contained in the words that direct to a self evident need to at least use a lexicon to try and understand those words. The vagueness you are likely speaking about may be no more than a refusal to meet the text with a rational mind. And I do mean a rational mind. I do NOT mean a renewed mind, I mean a natural rational mind.
It can hardly matter how a believer receives revelation (Ministry Text, Canon of Scripture, and of course personal testimony) insofar as such receipt is NOT too outside the need for testing, and this is chiefly because when the Holy Spirit speaks to us, He speaks through our living spirits, and it is that reception and its source TO US directly that speaks to our natural minds, and if we are a prophet or else a spiritually minded person then that effect serves to contribute to the renewing of the mind, whilst also knowing by faith, that we have the mind of Christ - because we have Christ in us.
The paradox of complexity only really occurs when we have to address psychological and emotional realities in our lives, and all too often we have in some very real measure been broken by life before we even know how to write our woes and our grateful thanks. If we were not in such a mind when we came to Christ then we would almost certainly need to experience the conviction of sin and the utter dread of realising what sin is and how Holy and Righteous the Father in Heaven IS to a depth that the thief & the liar does not need to experience because he knows that he is a sinner and so his relief comes more easily than the man who believes his conduct is acceptable to God because he is NOT a thief and a liar.
Yet because this conviction (of both men - thief & lair - and truthful & honest man) is by the Holy Spirit, so the benefit of Complexity is either wilfully provoked or it may be unanticipated to the person who is commenting. What cannot be avoided, however, is the need to begin with an entirely rational mind - before trying to
revive ones faith, as well,
refine (test) ones faith, and genuinely arrive at a true deliverance from our NATURAL MINDS - without breaking it by spiritual ordinances of God that ultimately require us to fathom that in Christ we are crucified IN HIM (Romans 6:6) - yet not I but Christ.
The very same refectory is also expressed canonically when we read, "NOT I - BUT CHRIST". Galatians 2:20 yet that meaning is declarative and serves as a confession of faith because it serves to remind our enemies that it is Christ who lives in us" and so it is "Not I, but Christ who lives in me". That declarative is not a pre forma of words, it is expressly in the same meaning as the Scripture that tells us that no man can say that Christ is Lord, expect by the Holy Spirit. So who gave the Mormon the power to so declare that Christ is Lord when in his doctrine, Christ is the spiritual brother of Satan? Who gave the Mormon that power? The Mormon gave the Mormon the power to be the Mormon - but his words do NOT disclose him - only his doctrine. AND that is the essence of the difficulty with complexity and seeking to avoid it. It is the knowing by faith that Christ is Lord and NOT by vocative agreement.
There are at least two very clear and undoubted witnesses in this OP to what I have said in this regard and both are misunderstood. So the scene itself then provides an unanticipated consequence, and our natural minds may be provoked to excess so that our thinking removes any true spiritual value even when we make rational statements. Our minds are already removed in that instant from any natural benefit to anything that is in fact classified as natural wisdom, because in that mind natural wisdom becomes the same as earth bound and demonic. (James 3:15). Being rational is NOT the same as being intellectual and neither is it the same as producing a 'revelaed' benefit of our words, UNLESS God Himself intervenes. And THEN almost anything at all is possible outwardly, whilst inwardly HE wrestles with the flesh and opens our ear to listen to HIM by His own elective means. And that could literally be any one of us.
Shalom