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Originally Posted by Aquila
Contrarian?
No, absolutely not!  |
Why? Because your own self perception is your reality.
God gave us instruction through prophets, scribes, and apostles.
The information wasn’t cryptic to the early church. They easily understood what they needed to do. Their only opposition was Biblical Judaism and Kabbalist Gnosticism. Yet, a remnant made it through, to each generation the baton is handed of to the next group of messengers. They were told to believe not every spirit but test those spirits like Jesus tested Satan and Satan’s offspring with the word. At the judgement we will be judged by the Word. Not by your’s or my interpretations. Not by ifs or maybes, but by book chapter and verse. If we don’t have the truth, then buddy boy we best get to finding it. Because our eternity is on the line. This isn’t some sort of celestial roulette where we walk through life not knowing if we are saved or not. But have to wait until we get the surprise at the pearly gates. Paul couldn’t be able to tell us to make our calling an election sure if salvation was some sort of mystery. If truth was so cryptic that we were just guessing at it. No, the Lord Jesus, His Apostles were able to relay the Truth to us clearly. Our feelings of right and wrong or personal experiences aren’t the litmus test for truth, but only the scripture. If you lead an unrepentant life, or a life where you are locked in constant struggle with sin, then self change through repentance is needed. Not hoping that God will flip a coin at the final judgement.
Yes, we are in God’s hands now, and we stand in the middle of an open book. It is what is written in that book that will judge us or free us. We just need to enter in at the strait gate. To encourage others that they too can navigate the narrow path with a Pilgrim’s Progress finding the strait gate to enter through to see the face of Jesus Christ.