Politics is "Of the World?"

[bbyrd009]

Originally Posted by Timmy

The question was regarding God speaking to people. Are you saying that the method of knowing whether God has spoken to you or not is to ask the (potential) spirit (who may or may not be God) if Jesus Christ has come in the flesh? If it/he says "yes", then it is definitely God who spoke to you?

Correct, yes, except that this spirit will not ever be God for the simple reason that it is a spirit, which your post seems to not acknowledge the existence of? But it is simply a things...center, the image you get in your mind when I say...recycling, for instance. "Recycling" might invoke quite a few images to you, from the drudgery of actually doing recycling, to the warm fuzzy feeling evoked in making the planet a better place, but whatever the specific image that it brings to your mind, you now have its spirit, right there in your brain. I might add that this was carefully chosen, as this should not be a frivolous exercise, but I didn't want to involve the other variables that testing aspects of Scripture might involve. I'm realizing that it's almost foreign to me again, haven't had to test a spirit in, wow, over a year, so prolly two, hmm, but the sequence I did go through in testing spirits left a powerful impression that I haven't forgotten...ah, you have to test spirits when you do new things or accept new beliefs, and I'm not doing anything new since then in those areas ouch lol.