>And you don't think being fed or injected with a >nanochip so that at the very least you might >be tracked isn't on the same level as a "spot" >or "mark" as mentioned?
Same "level"? The spot or mark of the Scriptures is relative to one's eternity relative to God. The chip of which you speak is on the earthly level. Surely, it is born of the same corruption of the earth, but it is not the spot of which the Scriptures speak. It is wrong to wrest the Scriptures for one's ends because that leads people away from what the Scriptures are conveying. That's called "deception". The chip is evil, I agree. However, no physical chip can result in eternity in the Lake of Fire. That was only God's determination.
>Evil would dearly love to bring the entirety of >Revelations to pass, if only they could…
First, it's "Revelation", not "Revelations". Next, Evil would not like the Revelation to come to pass since that Revelation is addressing Evil and its end.
>So, when our Father gave us a mind to learn, the ability to discern, he didn't expect us to use them…>but to follow rote and verse and never think for >yourselves or question the narrative.
Spiritual discernment is utterly unattainable without the Scriptures because the Scriptures are what provides the basis upon which to arrive at a true conclusion. "Thinking for ourselves" as you put it, is what the Scriptures call "walking according to your own understanding", against which Proverbs advises. Proverbs teaches to lean not to our understanding but in all our ways submit to Him, and HE will make our ways STRAIGHT. This is because OUR way is "crooked", after the crooked Serpent.
>What if Jesus ain't exactly God, but made it his business to know him?
And there is the crux of your confusion. The Scriptures center wholly around Jesus Christ. It revolves around Him and His Work. As to knowing God, as God the Word, the Son has ALWAYS known the Father, always the imperative word of Eternity. ONLY God is eternal, therefore the Son is Eternal, therefore He has always known the Father. This is basic to the triunity of God–Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, eternal. The Son cannot have not known the Father, so He did not make it "his business to know him" because he always knew Him. As He said to His parents, Know ye not I must be about MY Father's business?
>What if you can, indeed, know >everything Jesus knew and then some? Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name…Jesus >called our >Creator our Father. He's my Father, too. Even yours.
Those in Christby His Testimony, the Gospel, which is the Spirit of all Prophecywill know all He knows once they leave this earth and go home to Him. And yes, God is Father to this creation because He created it, but Man sold himself under sin. Christ is the Way and the Truth, and the only way to have that Truth is to be in the Way. None can go to the Father but by Christ.
>Someone gives you gifts like life, or a mind, isn't it an insult if you don't use them?
Of course, but because Man fell at the Tree of Knowledge, he corrupts those giftshis way is crooked, not straight. Only in Christ are they made new creatures to serve with the Gifts He gives them, in the Narrow WayChrist Jesus.
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