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Are your feelings biblical?
Good response.That's an odd, but interesting question. Can we control what we feel? I'm inclined to say not. What we can do is act and do the right thing regardless of how we feel. So, I would say feelings are irrelevant, what we do is what matters. If course, I might gave completely misunderstood the question!
Are your feelings biblical?
Yepp, all emotions are in the bible, including the "O wretched man that I am" type of emotional responses.Feeling can be both Biblical and unbiblical, much like other things like genocide....
(yes)I don’t think feelings are irrelevant or should be readily ignored. But how we address them is key as is the weight we assign.
~bella
Great question Michael.
Are your feelings biblical, was this a question that came up to you by someone?
The main application is expressed in John 17 that Jesus said to the Father of those who would believe in Him through the apostles: May they be one as we are, I in you, and you in me.Would it be useful to get and idea of what an understanding is of the emotions?
Found something on psychology today which shows a pinwheel that shows the wide range of emotional status for us humans made by Robert Plutchik, in 1980.
Now that we can see the wide range of emotions and feelings; now to compare them with the bible ; it seems we all have emotions and feelings. There is also the spirit we can choose to live by in our life in following the Lord Christ Jesus.
What could we do to apply all of this together?
I asked this question previously, it came to mind, but I won't say whether it was a question God gave me or not since I am unsure of that.
The main application is expressed in John 17 that Jesus said to the Father of those who would believe in Him through the apostles: May they be one as we are, I in you, and you in me.
So if dealing with our sin ("cut it off," "pluck it out"--Mark 9:43-49) is stressful, it is counterproductive?So with that background, the application is to dress our emotional selves much like we do our physical selves, because it affects others in the body of Christ.
also in the sense that there are fashion police that cause people stress, there should not be emotion police or thought police either, since this results in more stress.
Stress caused from pressure to conform is counter productive.
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.
Would the question improve if rather than 'biblical', you asked, 'Godly' or "of God"?Are your feelings biblical?
Are your feelings biblical?
Yepp, all emotions are in the bible, including the "O wretched man that I am" type of emotional responses.
Odds are, if you're feeling something, someone in the bible felt the same thing.
However, in the sense that only one type of marriage is biblical, though the biblical context has widespread polygamy - are our feelings biblical?
Great question Michael.
Are your feelings biblical, was this a question that came up to you by someone?
Would it be useful to get and idea of what an understanding is of the emotions?
Found something on psychology today which shows a pinwheel that shows the wide range of emotional status for us humans made by Robert Plutchik, in 1980.
Now that we can see the wide range of emotions and feelings; now to compare them with the bible ; it seems we all have emotions and feelings. There is also the spirit we can choose to live by in our life in following the Lord Christ Jesus.
What could we do to apply all of this together?