Do we have "gods in us"? Or are we totally depraved?
So I am sitting at work this morning, and decide to surf on into a Christian group on MySpace I am a member of. In the usually inactive forum, I see this message left by an apparent member:
What is this "Finding God in you..." nonsense?!
DO we have a god in us? Answer: NO WAY.
Let’s look at what the Holy Bible says about the nature of man:
"The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." --Genesis 6:5
"And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, ’I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth’." --Genesis 8:21
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?" --Jeremiah 17:9
"None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive. The venom of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; in their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes." --Romans 3:10-18
"And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil." --John 3:19
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth." --Romans 1:18
We do not have God in us. There is no "god in you, " no matter what Oprah says. We have ONE GOD-- the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob. The Triune God-- Father, Son, Holy Spirit (The Trinity-- three yet one). There is no god in us. the only thing that is in us by nature... is evil. man is, by nature, a WRETCH, a God-hater, and a lover of his sin.
There is nothing good within man. Read the Bible. In my reply (basically what I wrote here), I urged her to repent from spreading this heresy and from her sin. I really hope she ceases from trying to lead God's children astray. It won't go well for her if she continues to spread heresy among God's people.
She, on her blog, SEEMED to be writing of Christians who have the Holy Spirit in them. Now... ARE CHRISTIANS FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT? YES. Still, the basic outline of everything she wrote was just very... Oprah-ish. Very contemplative sounding.
So how DO Christians get closer to God? Through prayer and reading the word... not by meditating on "having a god inside of you."
So please... pray for this young woman. :-(
I’ve heard so many people say that they feel far from God, or that they can’t feel his presence, or that they can’t connect with God, or that …
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What is this "Finding God in you..." nonsense?!
DO we have a god in us? Answer: NO WAY.
Let’s look at what the Holy Bible says about the nature of man:
"The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." --Genesis 6:5
"And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, ’I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth’." --Genesis 8:21
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?" --Jeremiah 17:9
"None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive. The venom of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; in their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes." --Romans 3:10-18
"And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil." --John 3:19
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth." --Romans 1:18
We do not have God in us. There is no "god in you, " no matter what Oprah says. We have ONE GOD-- the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob. The Triune God-- Father, Son, Holy Spirit (The Trinity-- three yet one). There is no god in us. the only thing that is in us by nature... is evil. man is, by nature, a WRETCH, a God-hater, and a lover of his sin.
There is nothing good within man. Read the Bible. In my reply (basically what I wrote here), I urged her to repent from spreading this heresy and from her sin. I really hope she ceases from trying to lead God's children astray. It won't go well for her if she continues to spread heresy among God's people.
She, on her blog, SEEMED to be writing of Christians who have the Holy Spirit in them. Now... ARE CHRISTIANS FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT? YES. Still, the basic outline of everything she wrote was just very... Oprah-ish. Very contemplative sounding.
So how DO Christians get closer to God? Through prayer and reading the word... not by meditating on "having a god inside of you."
So please... pray for this young woman. :-(
doesn't she mean just to get God in you? Like to feel like God is in you? Or have him in you?
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