It is up to the person to study, compare Biblical
spiritual things with Biblical spiritual things, and ask Jesus Christ to guide in understanding.
How sad it is to see that they have to use their understandings to understand the word of God, instead of following the principle God has established, that is «comparing
spiritual things with spirituals».
The ordinance of my life is to bring unity by compare
Spiritual things with Spiritual things and I don't expect you or anyone like you to comprehend what I'm saying.
He does
that spiritual thing with things.
Not exact matches
One
thing's clear though — yoga studios and
spiritual entrepreneurs are going to have a field day
with this one.
in reality, in some ways I do agree
with your post and that's the reason I also included that religionists can be equally arrogant in their knowledge of
spiritual things just as scientists.
I think the paragraph relating to visuals is saying, we don't need material
things to help us
with our
spiritual relation to God.
I FULLY believe in a creator and
spiritual reality, but I think the GREAT creator, not the various imposters (Including the dieties of JEws, Muslims and Christians) who have fun watching us kill each other over theological syntax disagreements, has MUCH better
things to do than have personal conversations
with any of us, dumb blondes included.
Just because something is termed
spiritual, and most
things that are termed that are dealing
with the relative plane rather than the absolute, doesn't mean its truth.in the
spiritual realm.
@fimeilleur actually i can back up the claims i make both personally and historically, one example Abraham, Machpelah (actual location of his tomb and remains along
with 5 others in Israel right where they are supposed to be) Kedorlaomer king of Elam, (defeated by Abraham and recently discovered) it is said Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke
with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all
things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding
spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even
with those who would reject Him.
Michael «As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very
spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest
thing from the truth, I have no problem
with religion, I have a problem
with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies
with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.»
I know that I see elements of divine around me in
things and in ways that others don't, including other religious people... And as long as different religions and even sects constantly argue about what god truly is, and as long as they come up
with different asnwers, then I have to say that the
spiritual elements of our universe simply manifest differently for different folks, including not at all for some... as
with those who label themselves as athiest...
As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very
spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest
thing from the truth, I have no problem
with religion, I have a problem
with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies
with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.
its not really atheism or religion that I have a problem
with, its the hate, control, and fear that goes along
with it that I have a problem
with, you say that those who are
spiritual are into new agey, crystal ball, stuff, see that's what I'm talking about, you assume to know what something is about when you don't understand something you naturally fear it, your self righteous clouds you, don't you get that by being narrow minded in your view towards
things, you really act no better than religious fundamentalists, being
spiritual is a lot more than just the new agey, think positive all the time that you think it is, its about being aware of who you are?
One
thing is certain to a pastor: the only parishioners fighting the old battles are old themselves, their felt banners frayed and their guitar strings broken, while a young battalion is rising,
with no animus against the atrophied adolescence of their parents, and only eager to engage a real
spiritual combat in a culture of death.
I respect your experience but it is still anecdotal and limited — it is not definitive hence my suggestion that you paint
with a narrower brush lest you do the very
thing that you are guarding against... You resist those who criticize «other ways of following Jesus» while doing a bit of the same to those who see value in the institution as a
spiritual reality even if not an ideal one...
I'm distrustful of people who always seem to be thinking of deep
spiritual things, always striving and going - going - going: I think they must be horrible to live
with.
Finally, the
thing that I want to leave you
with is this: those of us who have suffered this way have been left
with triggers, a form of
Spiritual PTSD, which make it difficult to engage.
«First we affirm that we desire to follow Scripture alone as a rule of faith and religion, without mixing it
with any other
things which might be devised by the opinion of men apart from the Word of God, and without wishing to accept for our
spiritual government any other doctrine than what is conveyed to us by the same Word without addition to diminution, according to the command of our Lord.»
That can be a good
thing for missions if the Christian believers have the theological /
spiritual formation to be discerning; but too often cultural custom becomes absolutized along
with the Tradition's orthopraxis.
The same goes for meeting
with people for breakfast or lunch or having a family over for dinner to talk about
spiritual things.
He said he'll go to church
with me, he was burned by a church once or he's really open to
spiritual things, so it's only a matter of time, right?
In most areas, Paul allowed others to make their own choices, but some «
spiritual fathers» today want families to check
with him regarding such
things as vacation planning, job transfers, financial management, and child rearing.
The crude superstition of man's prayer as a means of instructing God or altering his intention was overpassed and praying became both congruous
with the Christian idea of God and effectively powerful in
spiritual result — «Abba, Father, all
things are possible unto thee; remove this cup from me: howbeit not what I will, but what thou wilt.»
I know a lot of Christians who are loving, tolerant, people, these folks weren't, and their attitude caused me to re-examine a lot of
spiritual things, and to deal
with a lot of my questions about Christianity, which I've always had.
Church and
spiritual abuse is wrongly associated
with things like weakness, gullibility, cults, naivete, and delayed development.
We are created
with a
spiritual soul as well as a body, and so material
things alone are not enough to satisfy us: we yearn for what is truly
spiritual.
Before we occupy ourselves
with spiritual matters, main
thing it is to make sure that we have entered God's kingdom.
Oh... and another
thing... as an explanation: I like forming relationships
with people who are journeying, processing, and growing into their own
spiritual independence.
So you finally resolve to say what feels like the most
spiritual and helpful
thing you can come up
with in the moment: «I'll be praying for you.»
In the meantime, they live in a sort of self - imposed
spiritual isolation — never telling people what they really believe about various
things, because those are the
things they are going to write about in their book, and they are deathly afraid that anyone they share their beliefs
with will take them and write their own book about them before they can get THEIR book finished.
It interacts
with God and the
spiritual realm through its own set of «senses,»
things like faith, hope, and prayer.
The only
thing I don't agree
with is the
spiritual elitism that the writer talks about.
I like it when people relate Lucifer as a
spiritual being who is trying to destroy the good
things in life because it can be easier to relate
with.
13 These
things we also speak, not
with words taught by human wisdom, but
with those taught by [the] spirit, as we combine
spiritual [matters]
with spiritual [words].
When Paul says that the «soulish» man can not receive the
things of the Spirit of God, he is simply saying that the soul of a person, by itself,
with only imagination, memory, reason, and emotions to guide it, can not grasp
spiritual truth.
They are dealing
with loads of guilt, pain, fear, suffering, and doubt, but the church they attend does not allow them to show any of these
things because it's not «
spiritual.»
It literally means «two - souled»: a bigamist, a person
with two loves, a person serving two masters, loving
spiritual and worldly
things at the same time.
Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a necessity to my
spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death
with composure, any incentive to be perfect in
things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.»
Oftentimes, as you sleep, your subconscious mind (or call it your
Spiritual mind) sorts through the teaching to come up
with insights you hadn't thought of before, or solutions to problems you couldn't understand, or
things that you need to take out of your sermon or Bible study lesson.
We are created
with a
spiritual soul as well as a body, and so material
things alone are not enough to satisfy us: we yearn for what is truly...
I've also interviewed Christian ministers, a rabbi, a imam and a Buddhist scholar about the significance of their
spiritual homes, pressing them to explain how they reconcile their sometimes opulent houses of worship
with the fact that religion is ultimately about transcending worldly
things.
Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One
thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting
with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection
with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically
with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in
spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing
with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??
If God has blessed us
with every
spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ something happens within us that, it will renew our thinking and by that the way we react to
things, the way we interact
with people.
These
things are impossible to make happen and so it is
with some of you.You have no concept of
spiritual matters.
This protects you from the «attack» of the Other, you think... but if you ask me, it brings up enough negative energy in you to have a
spiritual breakdown, like Job, and to side only
with people, who hold to Scripture, blindly - in other words, to side
with those who have not learned to trust that thinking for themselves, as individuals, is a good
thing.
So, though I believe that the primary note in Jesus, understanding of the kingdom was the rule of God
with a moral and
spiritual message of the judgment, yet the loving kindness of God and of God's call to faithful obedience in all
things, I do not believe that this prophetic note makes it necessary to reject wholly the apocalyptic.
«It was supposed to be heartwarming and filled
with grace and
spiritual harmony and all that sort of
thing, through the something - or - other soundless meeting of our eyes.
And that God's dear people will no longer be obsessed
with spiritual and religious
things to the point of division.
In a sacrament, a material and visible — in brief, a «sensible» —
thing or action is taken and used by God, in accordance
with the will of Christ (whether that is by direct institution, as
with the eucharist, or through what Christians believe to be by the Spirit in the life of the fellowship, as
with baptism), to convey and to effect a
spiritual, invisible result.