Posted on 04/03/2008 9:49:57 AM PDT by Terriergal
First, thank you for your reply...
Though you offer 1 Corinthians 2:16 to state your case, I am concerned with your interpretation of it. Can we realy know the mind of another person? No! Then how is it that we can know the mind of god (even if one is a christian)? I believe the passage from John 15:15 is a more likely scenario of the knowing of the mind of god or christ... “No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.” In this I believe one could come to know “the mind of christ”. As you can likely see, the “mind of god” does not come to us directly; i.e., we are not “in” nor are we the “mind of god”. Again, do you see how words can have different meanings? So, given this interpretation, from my perspective, I do not believe that we can “know” the mind of christ. How about another perspective from Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary, “In the Holy Scriptures, the mind of Christ, and the mind of God in Christ, are fully made known to us.” Note again the secondary source, i.e., the holy scriptures. Therefore, we could not possibly make statements that suggest that christ has been offended. If christ were offended, I believe that christ would take care of christ in the way that only christ could know.
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I will post to you the reply I had made to another on this very matter:
First, thank you for your reply...
Though you offer 1 Corinthians 2:16 to state your case, I am concerned with your interpretation of it. Can we realy know the mind of another person? No! Then how is it that we can know the mind of god (even if one is a christian)? I believe the passage from John 15:15 is a more likely scenario of the knowing of the mind of god or christ... “No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.” In this I believe one could come to know “the mind of christ”. As you can likely see, the “mind of god” does not come to us directly; i.e., we are not “in” nor are we the “mind of god”. Again, do you see how words can have different meanings? So, given this interpretation, from my perspective, I do not believe that we can “know” the mind of christ. How about another perspective from Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary, “In the Holy Scriptures, the mind of Christ, and the mind of God in Christ, are fully made known to us.” Note again the secondary source, i.e., the holy scriptures. Therefore, we could not possibly make statements that suggest that christ has been offended. If christ were offended, I believe that christ would take care of christ in the way that only christ could know.
Sorry that was you I replied to twice...let me get to your comment I have included below:
However, using your own requirement here, you have prohibited yourself from commenting on Christian use of Yoga since you do not fully understand Christianity. (As illustrated by your challenge “do you have the mind of Christ?”).
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With all due respect, does any living person “fully understand Christianity”? I in no way would ever assert that I do. I am sorry that you took that as a “challenge”, it was not intended as such. Given that, I believe I do have the priveledge of commenting on your comments. I would hope that you agree with me on that...
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