Are you basing this on what God's word says, or on how people have failed because of not obeying God's word? God's word is clear about who qualifies just to be considered to be trusted to take care of God's church > 1 Timothy 3:1-10. So, God knows it is realistic to do this, if He says to do this; ones can make sure with God > He is not conceited and distant; He does personally speak to and guide His children who obey how He takes care of them.
There are even Bible claiming people, who would say the same thing, or pretty much, that you have said in the above quote.
They, too, essentially say there is no God who makes us able to tell the difference between one of God's approved pastors and an impostor. But the Bible says there is God our Father who makes His children able to tell the difference. So, in case people deny this, it can be they are denying that there is God . . . though they claim to believe the Bible. So, I am curious if this could mean they in truth are atheists . . . by the way - - if they deny the existence of the One the Bible represents.
And in case you know the Bible, it is possible you know what I am talking about, though you have said what you have in the above quote. May be you are saying this to draw me out
By denying the God represented in the Bible, people excuse themselves to stay in darkness so they can not see whom they are trusting. But
"God is light" (in 1 John 1:5). God's love has light so in this love we can see right; if you have experienced natural light, you know how light can show you so much more than any amount of words can tell you; therefore, with God in His light, we don't even need to be told by God about whom to trust, because in sharing with Him we can see.
Hebrews 5:14 refers to how we can have
"senses" "to discern both good and evil." And Jesus says not to evaluate by appearance > John 7:24. And our Apostle Paul prays for us to have how love gives us
"knowledge and all discernment" > Philippians 1:9. Sheep have the senses of smell and of sight. We have love senses deeper than our natural human senses. This is why we need
"faith working through love" (in Galatians 5:6). We go by love's faith, not only by sight and people's say-so claims about themselves. We can test each person, and hold to what is good >
"Test all things; hold fast what is good." (1 Thessalonians 5:21)
If we test something, we make sure about it. And the most reliable way of making sure is to submit to how God guides us in our evaluating. Proverbs 3:5-6 is very clear how we need to depend on God to guide us and not to ever take things into our own hands, I offer.
So, are you an expert who already know these things are in the Bible??
Now possibly you can see what I mean if I say I would not trust any and all apologists, since some might not believe there is God who personally shares with and personally guides His own children. They might be trying to prove the existence of some impersonal guy in the sky who is conceited and therefore distant.
But Jesus is not conceited and impersonal, though He is so superior; Jesus left Heaven itself in order to reach us and share with us and save us by dying for us, on Calvary's cross; so Jesus is not the one who is conceited; people can have God and Satan mixed up. But there are religious people who can be very into themselves, including certain so-called priests and hierarchical leaders; so they can represent God to be the way they are.
Not all are so, though; so we do well to be able to tell the difference . . . efficiently and not by time- and life-consuming trial and error!
Either I believe there is God who has us able to do this which the Bible says, or I am denying the existence of the God who is represented by the Bible, I would say. Yes, there are people who claim to be Christians, and they deny there is God our Father who personally cares for us and personally communicates with His own children, plus personally guides us so we are not fooled by evil people. He has things for us to do to serve Him, and He personally guides what His servants do; so it can be simple: we do what God has us doing, and this keeps us from being guided by evil people.
And this works very well with even ones who are more trustworthy, but they are not perfect. At times, a person might be trying to take me the wrong way, but I pray and submit to how God guides me and this keeps me from going along with someone while that one is mistaken. But other times he or she might be helpful. Plus, I can be guided . . . in spite of my own self!!!
Jesus does say we need to deny ourselves, doesn't He? > Luke 9:23 < now, why would this be ? ? ?
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But you already know this, right? You have checked out what you are supposed to be getting evidence for, haven't you? But this is worth attention. I myself need to feed on this, much more, so I am living and loving like this . . . not loving in the dark.
And, by the way, God's word says we in Jesus have been brought into God's kingdom of His
"marvelous light" > 1 Peter 2.9.
Plus, I have given scripture which clearly says Jesus Christ's sheep know His voice and will not follow another > John 10:1-30. So, yes sheep can tell the difference between a Satanic leader and a person who is approved by God. Part of this process is how we in Jesus have been sharing with Him and His word; so we know the real Jesus and message; so if anyone ever comes along and tries to take us elsewhere, we can tell easily how that person is not right.
And our Apostle Paul gives us an example of this, how even Corinthian Christians with all their problems and deficiencies could tell the difference between leaders whom God approved and people whom Jesus did not choose to be their leaders >
1 Corinthians 11:18-20.
So, if I fool myself into trusting a wrong person because I did not make sure with God, this is my own fault. The Bible says we can make sure with God about every thing we do > I offer this, going by Romans 8:14, Joshua chapter nine, and Proverbs 3:5-6, and also 1 Thessalonians 5:21.
So, if anyone of the "public" trusted wrong people > they needed to follow the good example of people who were not going along with what the misled "public" was doing.
I mean, God's word says we are directed, even, to trust God to personally lead us, all the time (Romans 8:14, Proverbs 3:5-6, Colossians 3:15). Because our Father is personally interested in each of us. Part of our basic Christian calling >
"in one body", our Apostle Paul does say, is to obey how our Father rules us in our
"hearts" >
"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful." (Colossians 3:15)
This is very personal > right in our
"hearts" > God ruling us with His own peace - - -
in the heart of every child of God. And God is almighty; so this peace is almighty; and we are guaranteed by God's word, by the way, how His peace almighty
"will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." Anyone, please see and feed on Philippians 4:6-7, about how to obey God so we are so sharing with Him in this peace, and trust Him to do this with us.
So, this is how personal the God represented by the Bible is; so therefore there are many who take people's attention elsewhere, plus they deny how our Heavenly Father is so personally loving and caring and sharing with His own children. Yes, some number of the public have been trusting people who do not minister them to this. At this time, we have political and media people who are totally highjacking people's attention elsewhere. But not all people of the public have been fooled. Whoever wrote these things in God's word know this, by the way
By the way > do you think evolution produced us, from atoms and molecules so we experience this ? ?