Anonymous ID: 3097b0 Feb. 21, 2023, 4:42 a.m. No.18387451   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7479

>>18387356

 

This might not be completely related to your post, but you reminded me of something I was intrigued by in a teaching. Robin D. Bullock was saying that when Jesus uses the term "certain" as in a "certain man" that refers to a real person. In that light Jesus' story of the Good Samaritan gets interesting really fast. Who were the Samaritans? Apparently they had one parent that was a jew and one that was not. If the story of the Good Samaritan actually refers to Jesus Himself, then He was admitting that His Father was not a jew.

 

Faith is a gift from God, so it seems to me that believing that Jesus is who He said He is, is a miracle. That said, it also seems that gaining wisdom usually requires seeking it diligently.

 

Example: I started earnestly digging on vaccines in 2016 after decades of questions about them. Prior to the COVID injections I had concluded mass injections are actually population control "bioweapons". I diligently shared what I believed to be true all over the place even spending lots of money on materials related to vaccines. In the end, I may have influenced 2 people in my acquaintance to avoid the COVID injections.

 

Lately, it occurs to me that valuable information and other wisdom is hard found and is often rejected by people close to you. (Jesus talked about this, too.) Going forward, I plan to keep sharing, especially about Jesus, but most people close to me, I'll rather pray for than say much to. If they think I have wisdom on injections or another topic it would be best if they asked me, instead of me trying to persuade.

 

Bottom line: God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. People probably need to do the research on spiritual matters for themselves.

Anonymous ID: 3097b0 Feb. 21, 2023, 4:59 a.m. No.18387522   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>18387479

>They are not congruent.

 

This is the type of thing that seems to be helped by personal research and studying the scripture for oneself.

 

There are things that didn't seem congruent to me, too. In fact, I am still finding things like that. They get resolved as I pray and study and listen to teaching.

 

Mostly I think the "Old Testament" acts out in real life the invisible things that God wanted to give us an object lesson in. People go nuts over Abraham preparing to offer Isaac as a sacrifice, not realizing that the shedding of blood was needed as an atonement to approach God. They did not realize that though God provided a ram in the moment to substitute, HIs ultimate solution was to come bodily in the form of the Son and become the Sacrifice Himself.