Black Spirituality Religion : Why Do We Put God In A Box?

[river]

I have proven that way I interpret the bible make sense while others just make wild and crazy statements that have no validity

That's classic Oceolo. So when I call something an oceolism y'all know what I'm talking about.

 

[river]

it is not only
right but a positive duty to judge. Many do not know that the
Scripture commands us to judge. The Lord Jesus Christ
commanded, "Judge righteous judgment" (John 7:24). He told a
man, "Thou hast rightly judged" (Luke 7:43). To others, our Lord
asked, "Why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?" (Luke
12:57).

The Apostle Paul wrote, "I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say"
(1 Corinthians 10:15). Again, Paul declared, "He that is spiritual
judgeth all things" (1 Corinthians 2:15). It is our positive duty to
judge.


"Beware of false prophets!" (Matthew 7:15) is the warning and command
of our Lord. But how could we "beware" and how could we know they
are "false prophets" if we did not judge? And what is the God given
standard by which we are to judge? " To the Law and to the Testimony:
if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no
light in them." (Isaiah 8:20). "Ye shall know them by their fruits"
(Matthew 7:16), Christ said. And in judging the "fruits," we must
judge by God's Word, not by what appeals to human reasoning. Many
things seem good to human judgment which are false to the Word of
God.

The Apostle Paul admonished believers, "Now I beseech you, brethren,
mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine
which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve
not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and
fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple" (Romans 16:17-18).
This apostolic command could not be obeyed were it not right to
judge. God wants us to know His Word and then test all teachers and
teaching by it. Notice also that it is the false teachers who make
the "divisions," and not those who protest against their false
teaching. And these deceivers are not serving Christ, as they
profess, "but their own belly," or their own "bread and butter," as
we would put it. We are to "mark them and avoid them."

"Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord" (2
Corinthians 6:17, read verses 14-18). and "From such turn away." (2
Timothy 3:5). "Withdraw yourselves" (2 Thessalonians 3:6). "And have
no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather
reprove them " (Ephesians 5:1 1). "Abhor that which is evil; cleave
to that which is good" (Romans 12:9). "Prove all things; hold fast
that which is good" (1 Thessalonians 5:21). It would be impossible to
obey these injunctions of God's Word unless it were right to judge!
And remember, nothing is "good" in God's sight that is not true to
His Word.

The Apostle John wrote, "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try
[test, judge] the spirits whether they are of God: because many false
prophets are gone out into the world " ( 1 John 4:1 ) . Again he
wrote, "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess
not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.... If there come any unto
you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house,
neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is
partaker of his evil deeds" (2 John 7,10-11). This Scripture commands
us to judge between those who do, and those who do not bring the true
doctrine of Christ.

One of the best known and most misunderstood and misapplied
Scriptures is "Judge not" (Matthew 7:1). Let us examine the entire
passage:

"Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge,
ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be
measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy
brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of
thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite,
first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see
clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye" (Matthew 7:1-
5).

Read this again carefully. Notice that it is addressed to a
hypocrite!-not to those who sincerely want to discern whether a
teacher or teaching is true or false to God's Word. And instead of
being a prohibition against honest judgment, it is a solemn warning
against hypocritical judgment. In fact, the last statement of this
Scripture commands sincere judgment-"Then shalt thou see clearly to
cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." If we take a verse or a
part of a verse out of its setting, we can make the Word of God
appear to teach the very opposite of what it really does teach. And
those who do this cannot escape the judgment of God for twisting His
Word (2 Peter 3:16). Let this be a warning.
Many who piously quote, "Judge not," out of its context, in order to
defend that which is false to God's Word, do not see their own
inconsistency in thus judging those who would obey God's Word about
judging that which is untrue to the Bible. It is tragic that so much
that is anti-Scriptural has undeservedly found shelter behind a
misuse of the Scripture just quoted. The reason the professed church
of Christ is today honeycombed and paralyzed by satanic Modernism is
because Christians have not obeyed the commands of God's Word to
judge and put away and separate from false teachers and false
teaching when they first appeared in their midst. Physical health is
maintained by separation from disease germs. Spiritual health is
maintained by separation from germs of false doctrine. The greatest
peril of our day is not too much judging, but too little judging of
spiritual falsehood.


Let us not forget that "We must all
appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ" (2 Corinthians 5:10). It
will be well with those who are studying God's Word, walking in the
light of it, living for Christ and the salvation of souls. It will go
ill with those who have accepted Christ but who are living for the
things of this world. If you are a mere professor of Christ, or
profess nothing, let me remind remind you "That judgment
must begin at the House of God; and if it first begin at us, what
shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel?" (1 Peter 4:17).

It is right and a positive duty to do what Jesus said not to do?

As Brotha Info Moetry has pointed out you've employed a great number of words here showing how the bible contradicts itself. Whose side are you on?

 

[Destee]

I think this is what we're still doing Family ... laying claim to God, based on our experiences, totally dismissing another's different experience with God ... even going as far to say ... God is not there.

Who are we, that we've become so arrogant and brazen, that we believe we know God, in all of His/Her Fullness?

As if we made God, and not the other way around.

We will say, think, or whisper about another ... they don't know God ...

When in reality ... we don't know what anyone else knows ... all we know is what we know ... and we want to limit everyone else, to that ... to the box we have put God in.



Destee

 

[Keita Kenyatta]

I think this is what we're still doing Family ... laying claim to God, based on our experiences, totally dismissing another's different experience with God ... even going as far to say ... God is not there.

Who are we, that we've become so arrogant and brazen, that we believe we know God, in all of His/Her Fullness?

As if we made God, and not the other way around.

We will say, think, or whisper about another ... they don't know God ...

When in reality ... we don't know what anyone else knows ... all we know is what we know ... and we want to limit everyone else, to that.

To the box we have put God in. Destee

Destee, listen Sis cause this is as real as I can keep it regardless of what anyone says....cause what they say is not half as important as what they did not say. " The real reason why we as humans put God in a box is because IT ALLOWS US TO TAKE HIM OUT WHENEVER WE PLEASE, WHENEVER IT'S CONVENIENT OR WHENEVER A SHIELD IS NEEDED FOR OUR ERRORS OF BEING LESS THAN WE CAN BE OR DO. "!! PURE AND SIMPLE!!
No one is going to tell you this and few will admit to it. Some is conscious and some is subconscious, but this is what it is and what it is, is what it is! Of course I don't want to leave out the fact that we have also been conditioned to do so.

 

[Destee]

Destee, listen Sis cause this is as real as I can keep it regardless of what anyone says....cause what they say is not half as important as what they did not say. " The real reason why we as humans put God in a box is because IT ALLOWS US TO TAKE HIM OUT WHENEVER WE PLEASE, WHENEVER IT'S CONVENIENT OR WHENEVER A SHIELD IS NEEDED FOR OUR ERRORS OF BEING LESS THAN WE CAN BE OR DO. "!! PURE AND SIMPLE!!
No one is going to tell you this and few will admit to it. Some is conscious and some is subconscious, but this is what it is and what it is, is what it is! Of course I don't want to leave out the fact that we have also been conditioned to do so.

Yes Brother Keita ... i agree, and believe that this is why religion works so perfectly, like it does. Having us attack each other, for daring to think of God in a manner, that we do not. That's a fight, automatically. We immediately forget that we are speaking of and to, the ones we love the most, our own people, immediately making them adversaries.

Yes ... it's the conditioning ... and unfortunately, it manifests itself in the most enlightened of us.

But i believe ... that this too shall pass ... Lord Will'n.



Destee