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To: Colofornian
Now I'm not saying "the spiritual man" knows who will be in heaven and who won't. What I am saying is that the Holy Ghost inside that person does know, and sometimes He gives illumination & discernment to "the spiritual man" to let him know that certain others are on the wrong pathway--the "wide is the road leading to destruction" reference Jesus made...and "destruction" is not a degree of glory!

I agree. :-) I'm surprised you believe in modern day revelation though. Pretty cool! This is better than an ecumenical thread!

381 posted on 05/17/2008 12:00:52 PM PDT by TheDon
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To: TheDon
I agree. :-) I'm surprised you believe in modern day revelation though. Pretty cool! This is better than an ecumenical thread!

LDS call it personal revelation. I think a better biblical term is illumination--so as not to confuse it with communication on the level of the universal Bible. I'm not sure, though, why you're surprised. Look at a broader swath of 1 Cor. 2:9-16--and I've highlighted other key verses besides vv. 15-16:

However, as it is written:
"No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him"—
but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
"For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

383 posted on 05/17/2008 12:13:12 PM PDT by Colofornian
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