(October 5, 2013 at 5:24 pm)themonkeyman Wrote: This means that as we read above that all spirits are very alike and that further testing needs to be done to determaine weather its from God or not. E.g. Unclean and Clean Spirits are all types of the one Spiritual Form.those passages have a specific warning. they try to tell us not to trust someone just because they say they're from God, because they could be a false prophet. when it says "And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God" it's talking about specific claims false prophets would make. if someone says Jesus did not come in the flesh, they are not of God.
I know this can be considered borderline blasphemy but I used this point before when reasoning with myself. E.g. Both Spirits need to be very similar in order for us to have to test them. I would have thought they were so different they were not compatible but the scripture above says that further testing needs to be done.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
-Galileo
-Galileo
