Given a was talk to random people about military boot-camp, there may have been false perceptions. One of my favorites is "If Drill Sergeant ever talked to me like that I would _____________. (Fill in with false tough guy bravado.) Someone had some false perceptions. There are a lot of false perceptions out there. Part of growing in faith with God is being rooted in the reality. Someone stops lying to themselves. Given someone was experiencing some uncomfortable spiritual things, how should they deal with it? They need a Fear of God.
Fear of God is a good thing. Fear of God takes away fear of man. (And other things.) God is love. God's love is fatherly. You are doing the right things? What do you have to fear? Perfect love knows no fear.
I dealt with Abaddon. Abaddon was sort of like the Alien from the Aliens movie franchise. I was sitting in my truck in 2014, working for God on my iphone4. Abaddon showed up. That would be uncomfortable. He threatened to bite off my right ear. I sat there with no fear of doubt. I had a fear of God. God was the creator of all things. I sat in with a fear of God in an uneasy standoff with Abaddon. When I showed no fear, he relented, and started acting like a puppy dog.
There are supernatural things that have fed off fear like bullies. Someone needs a fear of God to successfully deal with them. They may need God to condition them towards being able to deal successfully with certain spiritual things. The Holy Ghost is a teacher and a councilor.
Abaddon is a prophesied event in Revelations 9. God does nothing without first telling his servants. (Amos 3:6-7) Someone may have had to experience something as I did prior to.
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Question: What type of fear may someone be dealing with when it comes to "Spiritual Things?"
There is the Fear of the Unknown. If you ever swam in a river, and hit some seaweed, and freaked out, that may be a Fear of the Unknown.
There is a subconscious Fear of God that many people have. They don't think about it. They may be mocking and hateful sort of like how some people would like to post up on Drill Sergeant. When the reality hits that there is something out there.......it may hit hard.
If you already had a Fear of God in the right way, and grew in faith, and experienced something supernatural, this fear is something that is manageable.
The Fear of the Unknown may get someone at first. Spiritual things like what I am referring to are uncomfortable. Once you get past the unknown, it is uncomfortable. Being in the Army, I became used to being uncomfortable. I can be uncomfortable and relaxed.
I suppose the other thing that helped me was going through Sanctification. Sanctification is part of a journey of Faith. It is where someone is being made Holy to be closer to God. Any sins I hadn't confessed or worked through, I may have been reminded of. This was a process happening at a workable rate of speed with the Holy Ghost. Someone who was suddenly assaulted by all the evil they had done, they wouldn't be very happy.
Question: What is the purpose of Sanctification? Didn't Jesus die for our sins?
Jesus did for die for your sins. In your soul, there may be some things you need to work out.
Given a man lied to his mom, he may have felt guilty. If he just swallowed that guilt, and hid it somewhere in his mind or psyche, that is not healthy. The confession of the sin to mom, that is good for the soul.
God forgiving someone their sins means they aren't going to hell given they stay the course. To be closer to God, like someone was in God's very presence, like near the Holy of Holies, that takes Sanctification.
This is something people like to argue about. Don't argue. A lot of people thought they were "saved." They weren't. A lot of Christians will tell you "God is love." (1 John 4:8) That is very true. Jesus chastises and rebukes those he loves. (Hebrews 12:6)(Revelations 3:19) Given someone was unaware that Jesus chastises and rebukes those he loves, and didn't understand a Fear of God, that person did not know God.
Question: How does a man become comfortable being uncomfortable?
If your Drill Sergeant was any good, a man may have spent a lot of time in the front lean and rest position. Drill Sergeant paces back and forth telling everyone how dirty and filthy they are, and how they are going to fix themselves.
Being in a position of physical stress, while other stressors are going on, a man tends to listen. He may have needed to learn to relax and deal with it.
Question: How do you understand The Father, the Son, and The Holy Ghost?
I started from a Trinitarian, Non-Denominational understanding as a life long Christian. I didn't think about the difference at all really. I suppose, without thinking about it, I was more right in how I was taught.
Towards growing in faith someone may need to understand:
- Jesus is The Lord. God spoke through The Prophets. Given a Prophet said "Thus Saith THE LORD," that was Jesus. Jesus came fulfilling the words of the prophets.
- The only way to the father is through the son. (John 14:6)
I didn't know what Filioque was when I started. You don't need it either, but it was brought up, so lets be right. Now that it is brought up, it matters.
I became aware of authority. Authority starts somewhere. Authority is delegated. Jesus was "given" or delegated all authority in Heaven and on Earth. (Matthew 28:18) Jesus is at the Right Hand of God. (Mark 16:19)
- Pharaoh had authority in Egypt, he delegated authority to Joseph.
- A King has authority. He may have delegated authority to a minister. In the UK, the Prime Minister serves the King.
- In Game of Thrones, a King delegated authority to "Hand of the King." The Hand of the King wielded the King's power with delegated authority.
Jesus and the Father are One in Will. Jesus did The Father's will unto death. Given a minister had a different will than a King, historically, he may have been put to death. He may have been a traitor. Jesus and the Father are one in Will. The Lord is a shepherd. To those who do Jesus' will through trials and tribulations, Jesus promises the crown of life. (James 1:12)
The Holy Ghost flows from the Father, and through Jesus Christ, doing the Will of the Father. To relate something else was allowing in "Spirits not God" potentially. In 700AD, someone may have been able to go to heaven, and never thought about this. Being wrong about it after it was brought up potentially allows in "Spirits not God."
The emphasis here is on a personal relationship with Jesus, and doing Jesus's will. Think about the different parts........and putting a lot of emphasis on them, that would be a heresy called Partialism. If someone was putting emphasis on the subservience of Jesus, that is another heresy. The emphasis is on Jesus Christ, as King and Lord. We are seeking a personal relationship with The Lord Jesus Christ, looking to do God's will.
Spiritual things are "Other Dimensional." Other Dimensional things are complicated and complex. There is greater understanding of God here. To talk about it too much may confuse someone who was seeking.
Question: How would you discern if someone was wrong on the Trinity?
I have God. Having God or receiving things from God, it is like having the right answer in the back of a math book. With the right answer, it may not be too hard to figure out how to get there.
Some people have liked to be "Different." An Academic, he needed to write a Thesis. He needed to create something. Was what he was creating of worth? Some Christians, they needed to be different. They wanted attention. They may have played on some of the emotions and thoughts of the time.
Was someone looking to be different, to gain attention? There are a few different motivations in there. If you become aware of them, they are not too hard to see.
Question: What went wrong with Orthodoxy where they were wrong on Filioque.
There were a lot of battles for authority. Who has authority? The Emperor or the Patriarch? The Patriarch or the Pope? There was a lot of politics and things happening "Behind Closed Doors." In these battles of authority, something may have shifted. There was a big focus on Tradition and the early Church Fathers rather than being in the moment, and discerning things through God.
Given a Nation was more right with God, more righteous, they were fruitful and blessed. Given a Nation was off, rejecting righteousness, which is a rejection of God, they may have known God's Judgement. (Isaiah 45:7) The Muslims showed up after Eastern Rome and Persia had been in a very ugly slugfest in a War, Famine, Plague event. Those in authority in Eastern Rome had been off or wrong. It is not 100% about being wrong in theology. It is about being off spiritually where someone didn't have God, and was in sin. The leaders in Easter Rome were making bad decisions.
There was a big split in the Church 1054. The Battle of Manzikert happened in 1071.
There was a big difference in the flourishing of Western Christianity compared to Eastern Christianity.
Question: What is wrong with the "Subservience of the Son?" Why is it a heresy?
It is the Middle Ages. A man is standing before the minister of the King who has delegated authority. He does the King's Will. The man standing before the King, he runs his mouth, and belittles and defames the minister. What happens? At best, the man is flogged, beaten, and thrown out into the darkness. He could lose his tongue or any manner of other things.
- The only way to the father is through son. (John 14:6)
- God likes Glory.
A prideful and selfish intellectual can get himself, and every near him, in a lot of trouble trying to be "Smart." He was in "Smarty Pants Christianity." He needed to be different. Given there was emphasis put on the difference between father and son, where someone is actively thinking about the difference, they are not seeking God, not doing Jesus' will. They are not aligned. (Philippians 2:2) Emphasis on the difference of the parts may lead to a "Form of Paganism." What looked like a Prideful and Selfish Intellectual, he may have been in Puff Daddy/Epstein Island Luciferian Occultism.
Spiritual Things are other dimensional. Other dimensional things, like 4th or 5th dimensional, they are complicated and complex. Things that look contradictory may not be. Jesus may be one "In Will" with the Father, and be at the Right of God. These things are different, but the same, in context. Context is important when discussing Spiritual Things and Theology.