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Originally Posted by Paul Vusik
Hey Nell or Matt,
Since both of you seems to believe that “one should consider himself deceived” as a born again believer, until a certain “revelations” occur, or whatever the methodology that you subscribe too happens. Besides quoting these same people that helped get this whole “recovery” junk on the tracks, do you even have a single Bible verse that says anything like that about a born again believer?
I haven’t seen one that supports any of this kind of ideologies as a healthy Biblical practice.
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Paul,
If you read the original post, Matt shared an experience he had with the Lord where the Lord told him essentially that he was believing something that was not true. What should Matt have done? Should he have told the Lord...no Lord...I'm not deceived. I'm good.
The point is to test all things, especially in spiritual matters. I believe this is both scriptural and healthy.
As believers, when we were born again, we were babes. We were not born again with a full knowledge of the truth. We need to grow and mature. In every area of our Christian lives, we need to grow and mature. We have an enemy who lies to us...the father of lies. We are told, in the beginning, that the serpent was more subtle than every beast of the field. Don't believe everything you hear...test.
In the "early days" I remember hearing an elder who was speaking to the congregation say "something" and my immediate reaction was "he didn't mean that like it sounded...". I KNEW something was wrong, but I ignored the alarm. I wish I remembered what he said, but I don't. I do clearly remember the warning but I didn't pay attention, I continued down a long road of ignoring warnings until I couldn't ignore them anymore.
I assumed what I heard in the meetings was true, when the Spirit of God told me otherwise...in a way that I remember many years later...to this day. So this is the point. Test all things...including what I said...as you have done. Thank you.
Nell