AK4
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I have been blessed with the knowledge of the new testament beyond anyone imagination; at the beginning my knowledge made me arrogant, but then love crept in and my arrogance dissipated because I was obedient to his prompting, but a lots of times I asked myself do I want to do this, but the alternative was not as appealing as Christ, so here I am sharing the knowledge with you.
Yes as God starts opening your eyes and ears it is a wonderful thing and sometimes frightening to be honest. I too was arrogant, then I began to “run away” because I knew or it seemed pointless to even share what He was showing me, even though I knew “by the foolishness of preaching…God saves” (paraphrasing) although I don’t preach. I know that only the “few” would understand and see. I knew the many, not even really talking about those who don’t believe but really of those who claimed to believe would fight tooth and nail for the doctrines the “church” taught them and refuse to see the truth. I quit for awhile but now I guess God brought me back to spreading the good news
Yes I know that I am the temple of God, so I choose to keep my body holy.
The apostle here is describing his experience in 2nd. Corinthians 12:
here the apostle seem to be free to do what is right. he knows that his suffering was there to keep him from exalting himself and he accepted that.
So ask yourself honestly, was his will free from boasting or not? Was he given a thorn to influence/inspire/force/persuade/make/keep him from exalting himself? Remember Paul said he wanted to boast, but the thorn (a cause to influence his will) kept him from doing it. Can you see how his will was not free? Could Paul still boast after God gave him this thorn with his free will? Was Pauls free will stronger than God so that he could have boasted? No, yet many will still argue that he still had a choice in the matter. That he could have had basically his free will verses Gods will and could have beaten God. Yet no one truly thinks deeply on what they say when it comes to this doctrine of free will.
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