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serapha said:Hi there!
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Just a couple of notes about your statement.
The intellect is a part of the soul, not the flesh, the "inner man" not the "outer man" in both Greek and in Hebrew.
The word "idiotes" is used to describe Peter and John in Acts 4:13; yet it is used to describe "unbelievers" in other passages. Perhaps man's belief system finds both the believer and the unbeliever to be idiots?
~serapha~
Vely, vely goot, seraph, (just kidding). Nice point.
And 'bro', yer a bit 'squeaky' there, (just jokin', (couldn't help myself, really)). If what you offer is 'truth', then you and Paul are the ONLY two people that I am aware of that are 'born again'.
I was under the perception that at the moment we receive the Spirit that we are born again, and the 'proof' of this Spirit is the conviction that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and died for our sins.
Under your perception, one must 'completely' understand, not only what I have offered as 'my' interpretation of 'born again', but ALL the basic principles and understanding offered in the Bible. I have met few who could even agree what these are, much less understand them. Seems as though we may be getting a 'little' ahead of ourselves.
There is certainly milk and meat. But I believe that the 'really really tuff stuff' is not so much in a 'further' understanding, but the humility and humbleness, (LOVE), that we have both Christ AND Paul as an example of. For it is this LOVE that man struggles with more than ANY OTHER principle offered in the Word.