popsthebuilder
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I basically agree with much of your post.
Two points of one or two other points which I can not agree with, however, are:
1 - the idea that your relating that you are in tears about such things will move any of the kinds of people you are referring to.
For the very reasons you cited about the various stages of growth such often display any a clue about in their interactions with others.
You're basically posting that to the same kinds of people the writer of Hebrews wrote something similar to in Hebrews 5, at the same time that he related in that same chapter his awareness about their kind - that where there kind was concerned - no one was home.
2 - Which brings me to my second disagreement with the above.
I have just now based my above to you, based on a memory of what the writer of Hebrews wrote about it.
Was that a result of the Holy Spirit bringing that chapter to my mind?
Nope.
Rather, as in any area in life, whenever we find ourselves in and or reading about a context similar to one we have experienced and or read about before, what is known as a Context Marker is set off by the simililarity between the two contexts
The result being that we then automatically remember "the first time I heard that song, where I was, what its' lyrics were," and so on...
That is not the Spirit, that is our own memory.
In the case of our remembering related passages of Scripture, this is simply because we have previously exposed our mind and its memory processes to those passaages, simply through time in the Scripture reading and or studying them.
Something else of interest about this second point, to me at least...
You want to know why, say, two Bible students both remember a same passage or passages, during one debate or another, and yet each their understanding of those same passages might reflect a night and day difference in each their understandings said passages?
I mean, if you're right about the Spirit being the one doing the leading unto all truth - as such a superstition would conclude: absent of having studied out in depth the actual sense of such passages - then why are those two Bible students at such odds as to each their often very different understanding of passages?
Why?
Because as I have just laid out, one, the Spirit is not the One bringing passages to one's remembrance. Rather, our God given memory processes in Adam do that.
So, there is that.
And then their is the just as readily observable fact that where one is often unknowingly studying passages out from, both influences and becomes part of the memorized context they conclude they are seeing in the passages.
Later, a similar context sets off said memory in the person.
The poster "dodge," is a perfect example of this - one or another MAD will point a thing out to him from within a much fuller picture of things that he has clearly failed to look at things from.
Next thing one sees, is dodge quoting passages he asserts say what he asserts they do.
His error while studying, or whatever it is he so sloppily does, has become memorized by his mind's memory processes.
Sure enough, as with any "garbage (information) in, garbage (information) out" memory processing unit, up come those very errors into his conscious remembrance, for him to pound his chest about some hollow victory or another about "in his own mind."
Result?
There is no reasoning with either of the two kinds of people described in the above.
There is only, Rom. 5:6-8.
That is all one can focus on, when dealing with such: the mind of Christ towards such.
A focus which also is a result of time in the Word studying out there, where the Lord might want one to look at others from - no matter who they are or how they conduct themselves.
Do that, squeek, and whatever tears you are going on about will easily be replaced by the automatic thought "ah, an opportunity to look at this individual from where Christ looks at all of us..."
Which is the following focus no matter how repeatedly dense or even hypocritical the individual one might even point such things out to, might twist them into anything but one's actual, following intent.
The focus of...
Romans 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
One of my very favorite passages.
It shows that the haughty will be replaced by the meek....in each of the believers.
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