[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your insights and agreement on the example!

Because I eschew all the doctrines and traditions of men across the board, I can and do simplify such matters to this: a thing is true because God says it.

And the corollary is that if something does not make sense to me, it is my carnal failing alone. Thus, I "hit the knees" begging forgiveness for my pride and listen quietly and patiently as the Spirit leads me whereever He wants me to go.

[Quix]

a thing is true because God says it.

And the corollary is that if something does not make sense to me, it is my carnal failing alone. Thus, I “hit the knees” begging forgiveness for my pride and listen quietly and patiently as the Spirit leads me whereever He wants me to go.
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AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!

[kosta50]

And the corollary is that if something does not make sense to me, it is my carnal failing alone. Thus, I "hit the knees" begging forgiveness for my pride and listen quietly and patiently as the Spirit leads me whereever He wants me to go

Yes! Repent and He gently, and ever so lovingly, pushes us back "on track."

To quote a creat hesychastic Father, "I neither fasted, nor kept vigils, nor slept on bare floor, but, to use the Pslmist's words,'I humbled myself and God saved me.'" [Saint Symenon the New Theologian, 10th century AD)