Transformed in how we think.
God's Word must transform us away from the nature we inherited since Adam's fall.
I wonder why you have not known this by now...
Apparently you have no idea how pleasing Satan can make himself to appeal to the doctrinally naïve.
That he can be very pleasing to a human being. The image of a red suit and pitchfork is no more accurate than
showing a long haired soft Jesus....
Here is an example of Peter doing something that many young believers would have seen as being very noble in intent.
Then he ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.
From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go
to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief
priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on
the third day be raised to life.
Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
“Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!” Matthew 16:20-22
Many nice people would say that Peter was being honorable and noble in his intent.
That, even they would have said the same thing if they were in his sandals..
But what happened?
Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan!
You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in
mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
We really need to pray to find one of the few good pastors to teach us how our good feelings are not from God.
For His ways are not our ways.
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we are not writing fiction. This is not creative writing class.
