Jesus condemned 'worldly wisdom'. I simply agree with Him.
Except that when Jesus condemned the worldly wisdom of his day, it was because those Pharisees and other religious experts were rejecting who Jesus said he was!
Jesus was saying that those people were not Christians. They were not saved. They did not recognise that Jesus was the suffering servant, the son of man, the Messiah.
Even when you attack the theologians I value, you are revealing your own incapacity to quote scripture accurately.
Unless you're intention is to call all these people unsaved? Merely for rejecting your trite little theory?
One of these theologians are family to my daughter's best friend, one is godfather to my children, and one is our client.
So I reject your silly little attempts to sound "biblical" as you reject them. Once again you would demonstrating you do not know what you're talking about.
You do not know them personally, I do. You have not read them, I have.
You do not understand the four solas of the reformation that your own denomination is probably descended from, I do.
You do not understand the first thing about how to read a chapter in its context in that section of a book, the book in its context in that section of the Bible, or how the two testaments fit together. These theologians who are my friends do understand all this and have had papers published and peer reviewed.
It's about seeing the Bible as the final and only authority.
But when you say that the Lord told you these things through his spirit, you make your own subjective gut feelings superior to scripture!
You are on a dangerous path and this is how cults are created.
But this is also because of common sense. See when I was asking the questions in the other thread about whether you speak Hebrew or know the history etc, it's not so much the translation is the meaning.
Many in the world could read the phrase "pass the dead horse".
But unless you happen to live in certain Australian rural towns you would not know it was an idiom called rhyming slang that means past the tomato sauce.
The stars falling from heaven like that. It's a phrase that means geopolitical disruption and enemy gods being dethroned.
It's not your fault you don't get it from the passage immediately, just as someone wouldn't understand what dead horse meant.
It is your fault though when you refuse to engage with those historians and biblical scholars who can explain how they know what they know.
It's as much your fault for rejecting this knowledge as it would be if you went to a doctor who said you might have brain cancer, but you refused to go get an MRI.
So you can quote an idiom from 100 passages. But if you have the meaning of that idiom wrong, it is just incorrect 100 times.
You are going against the vast majority of peer-reviewed theology that looks at these passages and understands that most of them have been fulfilled for 2,400 years.
It's not your fault you don't know what the idioms mean. It is your fault that you don't bother to look!
Even more alarming, there are some old testament verses that apply to your EXACT situation.
Please look up what the Old testament calls those who PRETEND to know what the Lord has said will happen, and what Israel is to do when their predictions do not happen!
Your subjective feelings gave you ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY that there would be a temple in Israel about now.
The AOD should have happened by now!
So much for the holy spirit giving you a heads up on what all this means. And so much for me ever taking anything you say seriously.
Because unlike your wisdom attack above, God's people are directly commanded to ignore those who declare "The Lord saith" and then it all just blows away in the wind.
Not only this, but you do not even understand the essential ideas that sprang out of the Reformation - the 4 Sola's.
Sola Scriptura is about authoritative guidance in all matters of Godliness. AKA - "The Sufficiency Of Scripture".
A key verse is:
2 Timothy 3:16-17
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Not partially equipped. Not "just enough to be saved."
Not "enough to join God's family - but to really GET End times tables you need to listen to my
Humble Servant who I will appoint in 2000 years to show
how all of you have misread my word for 2.5 MILLENNIA!"
Instead, we are thoroughly equipped to know all we need to know to do every good work.
Every good work.
Thoroughly equipped.
If there's something about the end times we don't know - oh well.
We don't NEED to know!
But your attitude?
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NO WAY PAL! All that BIBLE STUDY will just cloud your mind with worldly wisdom! Listen to my gut instead!
Listen to the "vision from the Lord" I had that provided me with ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY that I'm the only human being alive today who REALLY understands what over 100 prophesies are ACTUALLY saying! Based on this vision, I read the following verses to say with ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY that the Lord will return in 2029.5 - and therefore we can deduce the AOD by Jan 2026.
ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY!
HOLY SPIRIT!
( Or was that a late night dodgy kebab while overwhelmed by Jerusalem Syndrome? We'll never know... oh wait. It's Feb 2026 and the AOD never happened.... so ... what to do? Come clean? Confess my ignorance? I know... DOUBLE DOWN INSTEAD! )
Here's the UPDATED and CORRECTED and REVISED WORD FROM THE LORD......YOU CAN REALLY TRUST IT THIS TIME, JUST BELIEVE ME, just TRUST ME, I'm the "Lord's humble servant" after all!
