I'm assuming this is not a "trick" question CS1. I saw the topic of your thread and the first thing I thought was Yes... we usually don't speak to those who see the Bible differently than we do and we have been taught to avoid them. And should we come in contact with them be ready to "fight" them. I was also taught to study the Bible as if to get a sermon out of it instead of for feeding my spirit.
Both approaches for me personally were wrong. I don't need sermon material I need personal redemption material. The Holy Spirit shows us how to allow Him to flow in and through us so we have fruit in our lives for Jesus and those around us and ourselves. The fruit of the Spirit is not rules and regulations but a matter of the new heart we were given.
Gal.5:22
[SUP]22 [/SUP]But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness,
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23 [/SUP]Gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence). Against such things there is no law [[SUP][
a][/SUP]that can bring a charge].
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24 [/SUP]And those who belong to Christ Jesus (the Messiah) have crucified the flesh (the godless human nature) with its passions and appetites
and desires.
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25 [/SUP]If we live by the [Holy] Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. [If by the Holy Spirit [SUP][
b][/SUP]we have our life in God, let us go forward [SUP][
c][/SUP]walking in line, our conduct controlled by the Spirit.]
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26 [/SUP]Let us not become vainglorious
and self-conceited, competitive
and challenging
and provoking
and irritating to one another, envying
and being jealous of one another.