Are your feelings biblical?

Michael Collum said:

And Lo I looked and I saw, people writing in pain because their emotions were not biblical; fighting against themselves to no avail, since the teachings of the day had no value against sensual indulgence.

Are your feelings biblical?

How do you feel about that?

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Feelings are not bad if those feelings are righteous or they are in line with God's Word. For even Jesus' wept, and got angry.

In fact, I believe that those who think emotions are bad are in serious error, and they really are not truly reading and believing their Bible at face value.

Good godly emotions leads to godly actions.
It is the deed or thought that is sinful.
It is the deed or thought that can be godly.
Emotions attaches to whatever action or thought a person takes (Whether it be a godly action or thought or a sinful one).

If we had a godly sorrow for God's purposes, then it is good.
But the sorrow of the world is bad (See: 2 Corinthians 7:10).

Michael Collum said:

Are your feelings biblical?

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All the fruits of the Holy Spirit are considered emotional responses to the Gospel.
Love, patience,self control,joy,peace,goodness, faithfulness,gentleness and kindness.
Blessings.

Michael Collum said:

Are your feelings biblical?

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I'm curious why you ask "Biblical".

Do you mean, "Does the Bible address your feelings, or are yours not spoken of in Scripture?"

Or do you mean, "Do your feelings coincide with Scripture's testimony of the feelings of the saints?"

Or do you mean, "Do your feelings coincide with Scripture's prescribed dealings with feelings?"

Or do you mean, "Do your feelings naturally follow Scripture's commands?"

Or what?

Michael Collum said:

And Lo I looked and I saw, people writing in pain because their emotions were not biblical; fighting against themselves to no avail, since the teachings of the day had no value against sensual indulgence.

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What is this --a personal vision or something? Just waxing eloquent about something you don't know how to say plainly? Just asking --seriously. I don't know where you are coming from here.

It hints at something very much like the Thomas Blackshear painting I love --People hurt themselves when they sin, their frustrated feelings that result from asserting self-determination only demonstrate their utter inadequacy.

Depends on

1. What you mean by feelings.

And 2. If I am interpreting your question the way I think you're asking it. It would all rest on if you truly believe that God really is guiding you through your life. If God has you, than nothing you do would ever disappoint him or could ever be wrong because God has you and God is guiding you through your life, through every action, word, and deed.

But if you don't have God than yes, you are storing up wrath and your feelings are unbiblical. Hope I made sense.

My feelings are biochemical, just like anyone else's feelings. However, how I deal with them depends largely on my relationship with God. I allow Him, not my feelings, to direct my life, as much as possible.

Michael Collum said:

Are your feelings biblical?

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God, who features quite a bit in the Bible, created me with a mind, body, spirit - and with feelings.

God is recorded as rejoicing, weeping, singing, getting angry and hurt, being patient and so on - and we are all made in his image.

Jesus is YHWH said:

Here is how to know if your "feelings" are biblical. It is a test from scripture. You can test your feelings by how you love and respond to others.

1 Corinthians 13
If I speak with the tongues of mankind and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give away all my possessions to charity, and if I surrender my body so that I may glory, but do not have love, it does me no good.

4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. 5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, 6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9 For we know in part and prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away with. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also have been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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Great passage of Scripture, but love isn't always a feeling but a choice.
I can FEEL irritated with someone, yet choose to smile and speak gently to them.

Loving and responding well to others is vital; it doesn't mean that we feel, love, acceptance, positivity etc towards them.

Michael Collum said:

Since we're in fleshly bodies that are by basis hostile to God, and those emotions we experience come from that God-hostile body, there wouldn't be as varied responses

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Then I am not sure how any of them could be non biblical.
If there had been a poll, I would have voted Yes.

Michael Collum said:

It's stressful when other people take God's role over for Him and start poking their nose in where it doesn't belong.

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So just some kinds of stress are counterproductive?

Michael Collum said:

Sounds like an awesome idea for a thread. There is a distinct difference between what is Godly and what is Biblical, which might make a good thread topic also.

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If "Biblical" means that in Scripture which relates to the believer, I'm not seeing what you mean.

Dear one,
Let consider this:

And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. -Genesis 1:31

Do not God see or perceive the feeling of the man whom He created in His image, as spoken in Genesis 1: 26

Do God lie when He saw EVERYTHING that He had made very good ? Do God not create man to have feeling ?

So God saw everything including FEELING that He had made, and behold, it was very good !!!

Dear one, also consider this :
in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience' -Ephesians 2:2

among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. -Ephesians 2:3

So if a person walked according to the course of the world — that was carrying the desire of the body and the mind ! Did that person not following the evil spirit, that is, the Prince of the power of the air ? Did it not that the devil with its cohorts working at that person ?

So there is the evidence of the evil spirit working against that person ? How would make that person feel ?

Wouldn’t that person feeling angry, annoyed, oppressed, etc ?

So we need not only to repent from sin, and crucify our old nature but we also need to seek the Lord’s deliverance from the enemies.

Again, dear one, consider this :
a person have a free will and he can’t choose to drink and not drink.
But if his free will not to drink, that he can’t stop drinking. There are enemies that compel and enslave him to continue to drink. If that person is unaware of the enemies in the dark, that person would only continue to blame his feelings that he can’t stop drinking.

But if that person is delivered from the enemies, then he can rejoice in his freedom, and have tasted and see that the Lord is good.

Yes, that person feel like rejoicing like having been set free from captivity.

That is why we heard :
For you were called to freedom, brothers.
Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh,
but through love serve one another. -Galatians 5:13

Michael Collum said:

Sounds like an awesome idea for a thread. There is a distinct difference between what is Godly and what is Biblical, which might make a good thread topic also.

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A way I heard it phrased once is “there’s a difference between what the Bible says and what the Bible teaches” - for example, the Bible says that Saul was ordered to completely annihilate the Amalekites, but that doesn’t mean the Bible is teaching us that we should commit genocide. It’s a different type of understanding.

Back on topic, sometimes when I read the psalms I am absolutely amazed at how Biblical it is to feel depressed and alone. But I also know that I’m not alone, and the Psalms do have that turning point to face toward our Salvation. Same with the book of Job.

And that doesn’t even get into the “Biblical” feelings of the people in scripture who we are very clearly not supposed to emulate. So pride could be considered a “Biblical” feeling in that it is something addressed by what is written in the Bible.

I suppose the answer is that I can’t think of a single feeling that was not felt by at least one person in the Bible. So by literal definition, yes, our feelings are Biblical.

Michael Collum said:

Sounds like an awesome idea for a thread. There is a distinct difference between what is Godly and what is Biblical, which might make a good thread topic also.

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A few more thoughts on how we address our feelings and continue to Trust.
I have advised people to pray the Lord's prayer and mean it. In response to their expression,
I explain to them that having prayed "your will be done", you have to trust in His sovereignty
to go through what your life brings you (continuing in prayer as necessary).
That is the only way this works.
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God,
to those who are the called according to His purpose.
How do you 'feel' about suffering?
1 Peter 4:
1 Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind,
for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
2 that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men,
but for the will of God.

People often object to the notion that God has ordained for us to suffer, but this is
Peter's lesson about the Will of God for the saints.
1 Peter 3:17 For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good
than for doing evil.

Here is another scripture that is often quoted out of context and misunderstood.
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
I have seen and heard this used like some sort of "positive thinking, rah rah speak".
Read in context and you will see a teaching that tells you how to deal with "feelings"
that result from the circumstances of your life. The objective is to remain content,
regardless of circumstances, and the feelings associated therewith.
11 Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am,
to be content:
12 I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things
I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

1 Timothy 6:
6 Now godliness with contentment is great gain.
7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
8 And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.

Contentment is a biblical feeling we work into our salvation.