Generally speaking, I will agree that a mental illness and irrationality is possible, but for a different reason.
For instance, if we follow the logic of "the law is done away and that the Spirit within the believer at the time of confession is all that's needed", then one has to wonder why do many here study so fervently scriptures to show themselves approved. Approved of who? Of Yah? Why? Such would be mental illness from all parties involved: from Yah giving the scriptures that aren't needed, down to the believer studying them unnecessarily instead of trusting in the Spirit within them; especially the NT letters that basically say the law is no more and to follow the Spirit.
What's the point of even giving a bible at all to a new convert if the OT is obsolete and the NT just explains that the OT is obsolete and to trust in the Spirit? They could avoid the risk of learning anything about the law of Yah at the outset if we just skipped the bible. By this logic there's no standard by which to measure or to judge anyone in right or wrong, and any attempt to follow a standard through scriptural study means one clearly doesn't have the Spirit, right? That they're Pharisees?
So why the exercise in the futility of even studying scripture? Why even provide the scriptures to study? To understand how to love? No it can't be that, right, because the Spirit is in the believer and such a scripture explaining "how to" truly love would be establishing a standard by which to measure love; i.e. making a law to follow. And such would be legalism by definition, wouldn't it; to follow a law for Yah's approval?
Why study as bible students if the act only proves its own futility the more we do it? The entire exercise collapses in on itself if there's no real purpose to it and only leads to spiritual harm. And if we follow this viewpoint out logically to it's ultimate conclusion the only reasonable instruction would be, "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law. love under will."
...But that can be right because that's what Aleister Crowley taught.
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The scriptures were given for a reason. The law (the instruction) was given for a reason.
2 Timothy 3:16
All scripture is God-breathed and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness.
If the reason these were given was to show that we can't follow them and thus prove why we don't need them, that is indeed irrational for some here to believe.
For instance, if we follow the logic of "the law is done away and that the Spirit within the believer at the time of confession is all that's needed", then one has to wonder why do many here study so fervently scriptures to show themselves approved. Approved of who? Of Yah? Why? Such would be mental illness from all parties involved: from Yah giving the scriptures that aren't needed, down to the believer studying them unnecessarily instead of trusting in the Spirit within them; especially the NT letters that basically say the law is no more and to follow the Spirit.
What's the point of even giving a bible at all to a new convert if the OT is obsolete and the NT just explains that the OT is obsolete and to trust in the Spirit? They could avoid the risk of learning anything about the law of Yah at the outset if we just skipped the bible. By this logic there's no standard by which to measure or to judge anyone in right or wrong, and any attempt to follow a standard through scriptural study means one clearly doesn't have the Spirit, right? That they're Pharisees?
So why the exercise in the futility of even studying scripture? Why even provide the scriptures to study? To understand how to love? No it can't be that, right, because the Spirit is in the believer and such a scripture explaining "how to" truly love would be establishing a standard by which to measure love; i.e. making a law to follow. And such would be legalism by definition, wouldn't it; to follow a law for Yah's approval?
Why study as bible students if the act only proves its own futility the more we do it? The entire exercise collapses in on itself if there's no real purpose to it and only leads to spiritual harm. And if we follow this viewpoint out logically to it's ultimate conclusion the only reasonable instruction would be, "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law. love under will."
...But that can be right because that's what Aleister Crowley taught.
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The scriptures were given for a reason. The law (the instruction) was given for a reason.
2 Timothy 3:16
All scripture is God-breathed and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness.
If the reason these were given was to show that we can't follow them and thus prove why we don't need them, that is indeed irrational for some here to believe.
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