What you don't get is the Holy spirit walks with each person individually and helps them grow and become the personHood created them to be.
Does the mouth have the same function as the hand?
As our cells are growing the DNA in each cell is the same but the expression of the gene is different.
In the same why how God works in each believers life is different and how He shapes us is different.
Another analogy is good and diet. Some can eat meat. Some people actually would die if they ate too much animal protein. Some people are allergic to peanuts.
In the same way, some spiritual practices God commands certain people to do at certain times in their lives.
Therefore God's will is more than written words in the Bible and unique to each person for each day they walk this earth.
.the Holy spirit individually leads and guides each person.
The fruit of walking with the Spirit is the same BUT THAT IS NOT A WORK OF MAN BUT GOD'S WORK IN US.
Ariel,
I really don't understand what you mean.
Is it OK for me to curse now? Maybe at some time in the future God will tell me to stop?
It's OK to steal that ring I like? I'm not fully mature in God after all.
What do you mean?
When we let God down, we let Him down.
He ins't NOT let down because we're immature.
How could we be immature if we KNOW what God wants?
Are you saying we cannot know what He wants?
And yet we here are reading the bible all the time...
Isn't it more honest to say that we either do not want to do or are unable to do what He wants?
Instead of calling us children and immature?
We know very well what God wants of us.
Whether we do it or not is up to us.
Call it works, deeds, fruit, it's all the same.
No difference.
You might be thinking of Galatians 5:22.
This is what we reap when we have the Holy Spirit.
But this is up to us too.
I see some that say they have the Holy Spirit, but they don't have the fruit...