Spiritual Covering

[ChristRoseFromTheDead]

Read my response to ChristRoseFromTheDead and whenever you read anything I write (and what anyone else writes too), intentionally ask God to show you what is true or false in it. If you keep doing that, in time you won't need a whole lot of explaining from me or anyone else.

I did and he tells me that when someone claims to have special knowledge about something, but can't or refuses to explain it simply, then either they really don't know what they're talking about, or something inside of them really doesn't what to expose what their real agenda is.

 

[Adstar]

I'm on my way to bed and just wanted to shoot this off so I don't forget it later. In other words, it won't be long. I might add to it some other time.

I don't like the word 'doctrine'. It sounds dead, irrelevant, obsolete, and unrelatable in our modern and post-modern world. But it's still a word so I'll use it.

There are biblical and relevant doctrines of 'spiritual covering'. There are also unbiblical teachings and doctrines of the same. Many people have misused the doctrine and harmed others along the way. An example of the misuse of this doctrine was the Shepherding/Discipleship Movement which was meant to address immaturity in the churches but ended up dominating and suffocating the people it was supposed to help into maturity.

Like other relevant doctrines that many christians have abandoned due to their misuses and abuses, many christians don't believe that spiritual covering is biblical or relevant. But everything that God created is good when done healthily. In the Godhead, you can see the principle of spiritual covering. The Bible also says that God covers Jesus who then covers a husband who then covers his wife. The Bible, both OT and NT, allude to and reference spiritual covering often. So, according to the Bible, what is spiritual covering and why is it important? Allude.

There have to be a bunch of answers to that question. For now, I'll only say that:

1. Spiritual covering isn't your pastor, minister, or someone else who calls themselves your covering. It isn't a label; it is an actual and literal function that has actual effects-- good or bad-- in a person's life.

2. Spiritual covering is anyone who [passively] has responsibility for or [actively, intentionally] takes responsibility for another person.

The a.) person who even against their will is given responsibility for someone else and the b.) person who willingly takes responsibility for someone else are both recognized-- at least in the spirit realm where they see things as they in fact are-- as that person's spiritual covering. They don't have to know it and they don't have to know that it makes any difference or how it works. It just happens as soon as the exchange or agreement happens and as long as it continues.

One of the reasons biblical and legitimate spiritual covering is important to the believer and among believers is because of a.) the many blessings and b.) the increased protection from harm that are available under spiritual covering that are not available without it. Anyone who has some insight or opinions on this topic feel free to chime in.

Where in the Bible does it state that the Father spiritualy covered Jesus?

 

[ResidentAlien]

There's an old saying: No straight answers can be given when there are no straight answers to give.

 

[ChristRoseFromTheDead]

When Jesus asked the disciples who they thought He was, He was exemplifying this dynamic: believing and knowing aren't the same thing.

They actually are. We concretely know God by hearing his voice and being persuaded by and trusting his words, which is faith. I think what you're referring to is mere mental belief and the act of knowing (gnosis). Faith will save us, but mere mental belief and gnosis won't. The tone of your words implies that we don't know God and you have some special knowledge that we don't have

O Timothy, guard the deposit in your care, turning aside from the profane idle talk, and oppositions of the falsely named knowledge; which some promising concerning the faith, missed the mark. Grace be with you. Amen. 1 Timothy 6:20-21​

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Knowledge
G1108 γνῶσις gnosis (gnō'-sis) n.
1. knowing (the act).