Re: Setting the Mind on the Spirit - The Vanishing Verb
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Originally Posted by Trapped
This is actually something that I could never figure out either, especially as a kid. How on earth are you supposed to do your homework while also having to keep conscious of the spirit or setting your mind on the spirit? It's like, how are you supposed to split your mind to focus on two things all the time - the spirit and the task at hand? It just didn't make sense, and was yet another thing in a long string of things that I didn't understand, was bewildered why I seemed to be the only one not understanding, and/or walked around feeling like a failure at. Yet another facet in the waste of what could have been a brighter, happier childhood.
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Right. Making “setting your mind on the spirit” (Romans 8:6) something one must do (which is what Lee did) instead of a given fact for a believer (one who is in Christ) is firstly based on a bad translation, and secondly ignores verse 9 and context.
At least I don’t read anything for us (a believer in Christ) to do. Here is a link to one literal translation of Romans 8 https://biblehub.com/blb/romans/8.htm
As you all have been saying. Relax... there are plenty of other things to do. Throw out Lee’s teaching on this.
JJ
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And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14 NASB)
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