I suppose Paul missed your point when he wrote 1 Cor. 13!

Paul never had an opportunity to hear anything from me, as you well know. But I have not missed his point. He was not addressing the concept of truth. He was addressing faith, hope and love. He never once contradicts what I have said regarding truth always being truth.

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

So? How do you separate truth from faith, hope and love?

Too hard to figure that out?

The devils also believe, and tremble. Belief has to do with knowledge of truth. But it does not necessary equal faith. The devil can speak truth, even though he is faithless and wicked.

Truth is always truth, regardless of who says it and with what attitude it is conveyed. Love is important, because it communicates the truth in a way that makes it palatable to the hearer. But truth is still truth even if it is spoken without faith, without hope, or without love.

An interesting example of this was when the witch of Endor spoke to Saul. The words spoken were truth (the devil knew God had rejected Saul, and could accurately predict what was in his future), but the words were entirely devoid of faith, hope, or love. They caused Saul to despair, and assisted the prophecy in becoming self-fulfilling.

Also, the demons shouted that Jesus was the Son of God on multiple occasions. They spoke the truth.

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

So you are saying APL has an incorrect view about God, that he has only a partial truth about God. So what would you say so that he has a more correct view?

APL needs to believe in a God that is more ..... what?

Wait!
>>>Self<<< fulfilling? You sure about that?

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

SS lesson

Sin will not be allowed to go on forever. God poured out all heaven to redeem us, to enable us to change. His love is yearning for us to change because there is NO LIFE apart from Him. He is the only source of life, and when we turn away from Him we not only despise the temporal life He has granted us now, but we are rejecting life eternal.
In the end everyone receives what they chose.

Its sort of like this parable concerning electricity.

Imagine that there is only one company that has the ability to offer electricity.
Everyone is given a basic "electricity kit" that lasts a couple of years and supplies basic needs for light, heat, etc.

Everyone is given the offer that they can have permanent electricity that will give them far more advantages if they will only allow the company manager to come in and change their system in preparation.

But most don't want anyone coming in to change anything, they look to the couple years of basic electricity as an end in itself. They steal others electricity, they misuse their own etc, etc. And after their couple years their electricity is gone.
During all this the company sends out message after message telling them they have something so much better for them, won't they allow the changes to be made? After all it's free and it's eternal.

But sometimes the abuse is so great that a company manager has to go out and remove the electricity from some individual before that individual destroys his whole community. Sometimes the electricity itself kills an individual because it's misused. More commonly individuals simply run out of electricity after a couple years and that's the end (for awhile).

Finally the company is ready to begin the REAL electricity living -- with more light and advantages than anyone could imagine. For a few moments everyone, absolutely everyone, has electricity again. But those who refused to allow the changes to be made earlier, now realize what they refused, the enormous surge of electricity only causes them to "burn up".
Those who did allow the changes to be made live in the "light of His glory" forever.


Now some might say, the company didn't kill them -- they weren't shielded from the excess electricity and that killed them.
True -- However, who sent the excess electricity?

God's brightness is like a great electrical display of sparks and fire. Those who didn't allow God to prepare them, will be die in that fire.

Did God kill them? Well they weren't shielded from the consuming fire, it was their own doing, their own choice. But who exposed them to that fire?

Saul was wounded in battle. Instead of allowing the enemy to capture him, he fell upon his own sword. It's true that more times than not in this life, God does withdraw His protection.

Yes, the prophecy was "self fulfilling".

You tell someone often enough that they will fail, or that they are "good for nothing" those remarks often become "self-fulfilling", as the person begins to believe it and stops trying.