No worries. I sleep and eat, too. Tonight, I will paint.
I would love to paint. A picture speak a thousand words, and sometimes the feeling inspired is just all at once. But I am left to use the thousand words, lol.
not validated by any outside force (including the bible)
I cannot recall something that has been given me that is not also supported by something outside of me... such as the bible, or another source, or even science (fledgling though it might be - pseudoscience for Cofty)
One protest I have is when that inner message is broadcast as a broader message to all of humanity. As far as I know, tec has only done this once.
Can you refresh my memory which post that was? Just trying to get a feel for what you are protesting.
My only other protest is when this inner voice is presented as incontrovertible evidence. It is not.
I am not disagreeing with you. I have learned for myself that I can trust His voice... but even I tend to look for support to something heard. Sometimes to be able to accept something heard, and sometimes I accept, and later stumble across something that shows support.
Certainly others should test anything shared to them from anyone, as well. Regardless of who is claimed to be the source.
Well, we're back to that curtain. Tec, you stand in front of the curtain with your special knowledge, which you share with some people. Within a group of similarly minded people, you have an invisible, unverifiable affinity and validation. All are welcome to pull back the curtain and if what they find is similar to the mind of Christ as you have come to know it, you will accept it.
If they find something contrary to the mind of Christ, you will reject it.
How am I doing so far?
I'm not sure. Something does not sit right with me in your words. I am not sure what it is. I think it is the idea that I accept or reject what someone else shares; that it is even up to me to tell someone else their business. My business it to keep my eye on myself, and to do what I am asked to do. If what i am given is in conflict what someone else shares, then i may offer what i am given, and then it is not up to me what comes from that. Nor is it up to another, what comes from their having shared something with me.
Sometimes I just set something aside that someone shares if I cannot accept it just yet. Perhaps I am the one who needs more understanding. We can be at various points on our path. We are all learning.
I gave you an example and hoped that would make my point in the sort of thing I would reject.
tec, are the following statements from the bible, consistent with the mind of Christ?
All of them, yes.
The problem in those verses, and many others that seem to contradict love, is that we look at them through our personal biases, rather than remembering that Christ spoke in Truth, and also in love. So sometime we project what we personally think such words mean... rather than comparing those verses to all he taught AND to the truth that we ourselves can see, even in the examples from our own lives.
Such as the WTS... enemies are members of their houses; mothers turned against daughters; fathers against sons; etc. Because some are living and listening to the wts (a lie, and against Christ), and others are living and listening to the truth. (or at the very least, they are no longer listening to the lie) It is the members who listen to the wts who are the enemies of those who do not listen. Because they are the ones kicking the others out of the "synogogues", shunning them, showing no love, maligning, demonizing, and cutting them off. Those ones are loving their mother/father (the wts) more than Christ, because they are following the wts OVER Christ. Some love their literal mothers and fathers more than Christ as well, and so follow their literal mothers and fathers in doing the above shunning, maligning, hating, etc, even knowing that they are wronging others. Some love themselves more than Christ, and so do not take a stand and speak against the lie even when they see wrong being done to others (such as the above shunning, etc), so as to avoid that 'cross' themselves.
If you had a kingdom to bestow upon someone, to whom of the above would you entrust it to?
Peace to you,
tammy