- SAD Dude "If Ellen said it, I believe it!!!!"
Excellent post, as usual, MHG.
It is worrying that someone doesn’t see the difference between the physical and the spiritual … and we both know why. I was dead as could be inside before God Almighty’s Holy Spirit took up residence within. Then, for the first couple of years, I was nothing but spirit! I had to come back “down” to the flesh and learn to live in this world while being a resident of a formerly unknown world.
Were it true that people who believe they’re eating Jesus’ flesh and drinking His blood can gain them eternal physical life, then we should see them living forever in the here and now. Alas, no. That should tell them something is off.
- SAD Dude "If Ellen said it, I believe it!!!!"
Pride in their ‘striving’ blocks the truth from entering the mind of their soul. If being born again is ONLY by God’s Grace response to their believing and putting their faith in Christ alone, well then their striving is fruitless, and their pride cannot handle that reality so they reject the faith alone in Christ alone and mumble something like ‘there is no such thing as sola scriptura’.