Runtu wrote:Nightlion wrote:No need to beat yourself up. Even LDS are so unfamiliar with scripture that they cannot collect the strings of thought from all that is written under one hand to understand enough to build a greater understanding.
I think it's unfair to judge people like that simply because they can't follow your train of thought. A lot of what you write is stream of consciousness, and I'm sure it makes sense to you, but not everyone who can't follow it is spiritually or scripturally deficient.
Of course it is correct of you to pop my inflated pretense. I did it for fun. And to make some what of a pronouncement proper. Obviously by staging this event dramatically I removed the bane of purposeful pomposity by overacting the same. My ego is not of myself. I rejoice in my salvation and the power and gifts of my redemption which are not to my own credit.
But the actuality of what I said is sound judgement. If someone else spoke thus before I had ever considered anything about it I could have followed it flawlessly and embraced it as a wonderful insight that illuminated much heretofore darkness.
There are numerous reasons people fail to hear the word of the Lord when it speaks of new things.
1. They do not expect it. Like not hearing what someone says because you did not expect them to speak to you. Who is expecting God to speak to gender differentiation today. Nobody hardly thinks God has a voice to speak anything at all. They will need to shake off mountains of doubt and disuse of their ears before they will tingle with resonance.
2. No one is familiar with scripture who has not received the gift and power of the Holy Ghost following a prophet baptism of fire for real and been truly born of God, having a new heart put into their inward parts that is filled with the love and faith of God. I know, I know that THE LEARNED suppose, wrongly, that they are equal to every mental task. Tisk, tisk. The whole human is more than mentality. The academy has no franchise to install those parts you NATURALLY are lacking. These things come of God and not of man. Who is man? His brains are flesh and not spirit. His heart is filled with fear and doubt and not faith and purposefulness.
3. The minds of all men are clouded with presuppositions. Mormons are so certain that they are IT that showing them how NOT IT they are is impossible. It will never be heard nor seen. It just cannot be entertained. Same with the learned. Same with all other persuasions, be they what they may.
I do not mean to pick on you Runtu but I respect no pride. Least of all my own. Nanny my writing if you must. But I would rather you not.