6456	Forums / Theology Forum / Re: The ways of man	on: April 21, 2008, 03:11:28 PM
I believe that just because we have the Spirit that these tendencies are not found in us. We have the resources to not only test the doctrine of the scripture, but the Spirit by which that scripture is communicated. The former way is common but the latter way is seldom explored by christians. Every believer carries the chaff of his human view of interpretation. That is the view that he has of the scripture that is corrupted. Not a blindness (arminist doctrine of the blind spot),since believers are never blind, but an inability to have a view of these things outside the perimeters of his particular humanness. Just as he struggles with that besetting sin so he struggles with an incompleteness in understanding the whole counsel. So that everyone will have chaff that is burned up. Our inability to fully understand a situation of falseness of the teaching is related to the discerning nature of our familiarity of being under the illumination of the Spirit in the usage of scripture as it applies to the soul.It determines our ability to test the Spirit. So this is why there is so many religious people that are deceived in the spiritual battle.