6455	Forums / Theology Forum / Re: The ways of man	on: April 21, 2008, 03:12:02 PM
Biblically, hatred is not expressed necessarily in an outburst of anger. It can be a quiet lack of trust. So that hatred is related to how we think, the kind of love we have by that thinking, and the amount of sinful thoughts we have in the development of our loves. So that when we think on our own we actually hate the ways of wisdom, by developing an image of something lesser or to replace God. That is the expression of our hatred toward God and man. Since we place the image of thinking in place of God, and we lead men away by our ideas of accusations or defensive protection. We may not be able to stop the evil thoughts but we can face those images that we make and bring them out in the grace way of putting them in captivity. So that we will learn to dwell in the freedom of the Spirit, by having a flow of thinking by those fruits in which the Spirit frees us. And yet we are not aware that we are always to take thoughts captive. Because we are a thousand independent thoughts of wayward minds, and we are a basket of corruption in viewing this world. We would only stray in that moment that we have not thought His thoughts. So that we are always reforming our thoughts a rite by His word. We cannot trust the thoughts of our own nor can we trust our own spirit that we have in those feelings we get from that nature. We must be illuminated always.