We are all born in love and have love in our hearts. As we grow we lock this loveaway and become more and more hard hearted and disfunctional.
I understand that a little differently,
We are born spiritual separated from God who is love. As soon as we are born we in effect tell lies by the nature of our corrupted beings, as our separated nature from God, which God corrupted when man sinned.
We empathize with Christ because what he stands for is what we desperately need.But the problem with love is we have to take a real risk. We have to trust the other party, and something this fundamental, really trust.
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
But we have to open the door and take the risk, make the step of faith and ask and accept. This is opening up, the first step.
Dependent on hearing His voice the first work of God .
We cannot open the door unless we have been converted. We can only love him if he first loves us by delivering us over from death to new spirit eternal life. Not will pass but have passed.
2Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
The first thing was my fear of my father who I did not really know. It was knowinghow to relate to authority figures and empathise with decision making.
But the effect is very real.
But the effect is very real.
The effects can be real but we walk by faith not through the natural experiences of this life. God’s word is the validator of His faith .
That exclusive faith is not of ourselves . If he has begun the good work of salvation in us ,he will finish it to the end.
If any man has not the Spirit of Christ they simply do not belong to Him.
It would seem from my understanding you are putting the horse before the cart?
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