Please share the verses that talk about this proper path? Because my God is a personal God, with a specific will for each one of His Children, so how does that fit into this proper path theory?
Also, what do you consider to be the criteria that would indicate that someone decided not to follow whatever you think the 'proper path' is?
Although mankind loves to think they are powerful and know it all about God, unless God says it in His Word, it's not coming from God but the person speaking or writing the words.
Bible verses would be great.
Matthew 7:
12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
John 14:6 [Full Chapter]
Jesus saith unto him, I am the
way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Every verse of the Bible teaching us to FOLLOW concerns the 'proper path'.
The idea you have offered that each persons path is 'different' has no bearing on the PROPER path. You either follow in 'truth' or you don't. And truth is not subjective so far as God is concerned. There is only ONE truth, and that is the TRUTH of God.
Christ created a PATH to follow. It is the proper path. He spent much of His ministry defining that path. It is the path of 'righteousness' and 'truth'. And it is a very very narrow path.
I don't ask that you or anyone else FOLLOW ME. In fact, I would suggest that you NOT follow me. We ARE to follow Christ. And following Christ is to follow the path offered through His example.
I'm confused as to how you have not 'found' what has been offered concerning the 'proper path' in the Bible. Following the 'way' of this world is obviously a 'path'. Following the 'truth' is another path. A 'different' path than that which the world follows.
There are many paths that lead to 'darkness'. Only ONE path that leads to 'light'.
When you look into the night sky, to stare at a 'star' is a direct path to it's LIGHT. Everything around it is darkness. If you were to travel to that star, in order to get there would require a STRAIGHT path.
When you travel anywhere, in order to get there you MUST take the proper path. If you turn away from that path, you end up somewhere else. If you continually take a DIFFERENT path, you will never get where you want to go.
Following the proper path may be different for each of us. But 'the path' that leads to Salvation is the same for EVERYONE. If there is ONLY 'one heaven', then there can be only ONE path that leads us there.
Blessings,
MEC