Originally posted by @black-beetle
Whatever one knows or ignores about Jesus, is depended on the sharpness of his evaluation alone. It is my knowledge that there are multiple levels of sensemaking as regards the Abrahamic religions and surely in the context of the Christian tradition too.
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But sometimes help is needed. And help may or may not be available.
For example, Apollos heard something of the gospel. He was quite capable mentally. And what he knew he could forcefully argue.
But his understanding was deficient. And
Priscilla and Aquila had to take him aside and explain to him the gospel of Christ more accurately. (Interestingly the wife, the sister's name was placed first and her husband's second here).
"And this man [Apollos] began to speak boldly in the synagogue. And when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him to themselves and expounded the way of God to him more accurately." (Acts 18:26)
In this case the apostolic team of Priscilla and Aquila were available to help him understand the gospel more accurately. I think there were and are cases when available help is not around.
In order to accept or to discard anything (religious dogmas, theories of reality and everything else), methinks one has to conduct exhausting evaluation by means of deep study, concrete analysis and deep meditation.
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it is often important to walk in obedience to the light that God has shown you.
If God notices that you walk in what He has revealed He will know that He is not wasting His light, and will often grant you more illumination.
Today, the Holy Spirit says perhaps -
"Well you know that you have a sinful practice and should confess to God your sins."
The Holy Spirit is at this level just trying to get you to agree with God and confess you are in fornication / or stealing / or grudge keeping in unforgiveness / or something else your conscience bothers you about.
Some may respond, though they their understanding of the Bible is limited, they know enough to confess and ask for forgiveness. God does that and most likely grants them even more insight, more illumination to walk in.
What they HAD results in receiving more.
But if they rationalize that they will NOT confess their sin because, after all, there is SO much about the Abrahamic faiths that they simply do not know yet without further study, maybe they will not receive any more illumination.
"Since you would not walk in the light that was given you, I will withhold from you further insight."
For this reason it is good to go to God and ask God if you are walking in the limited light which your conscience and spiritual wisdom HAS received. And if not confess this too and ask for His mercy.
You cannot trust that God will allow you to be heaped up with more and more knowledge just to satisfy your curiosity, if you will not walk in the baby steps that He requests you to walk in with
some light He has granted you already.
The way of righteousness, the Scripture says, is like the increase of the rising sun shining.
" ... the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until the full day." (Proverbs 4:18)
As regards your own tradition sonship, this I know: once one knows he is balanced on faith, which is a must because it is the stepping stone that will enable him to make the first step in his chosen spiritual journey in the realm of his personal Special Knowledge, one starts to cultivate one's mind according to one's depth and he builds accordingly. You are there.
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Maybe a comment latter.
The last word here is yours.
A follower of Satan
17 Oct '17 15:14
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