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To: caww

“Spiritual things are spiritually discened.”

Not scripture.

“The natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

Also not scripture.

“A natural man’s understanding is shut to them,...must be opened by a divine power,.... and a superior spiritual light must be thrown into it;.....at most he can only know the literal and grammatical sense of them,....or only in the theory,... notionally...and speculatively,.... not experimentally, spiritually, and savingly.”

Also not scripture either.

Jesus provides a concrete answer to this question:

Matthew 7:16-20

“By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.”


56 posted on 06/13/2013 12:13:12 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Un Pere, Une Mere, C'est elementaire)
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To: JCBreckenridge
Scripture I referenced which 'you denied as scripture'.... which I wrote comment to that.: I Corinthians 2:14

Actually you missed it and the point.....but not surprisingly so.

60 posted on 06/13/2013 12:26:25 PM PDT by caww
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To: JCBreckenridge

“Not scripture.

“The natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.””


LOL, you’re such an idiot. That IS scripture:

1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.


68 posted on 06/13/2013 1:19:54 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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To: JCBreckenridge; caww

caww quoted Scripture that you countered with *Not Scripture*.

It most certainly was Scripture she posted. Read the Bible and try again.


122 posted on 06/15/2013 6:51:56 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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