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Ariel,
how in the world do you get ignorant to mean willfully ignorant and faithless? -- Do not some, through freewill, choose not to know of God's ways? They in the wildereness choose not to be faithful to His Voice, and by such they were unknowing of God's ways in their faithlessness.
ignorant means they did not know that in their blindness they did not see. -- it is those who did not hearken from God's Voice who is being spoken about. They, of their own choice, did not desire to hear God's will. So yes, in their refusal to know God in their thinking they fell, inasmuch as we would fall if we refuse God His place in our thinking.
Paul/Saul did not willing sin, he did it out of ignorance because he was at the time blind to the truth of the Gospel of Christ as so many in the world is blind to the gospel but teach and follow a false Christ and False gospel. --Paul, not knowing God's will yet, did those things he mentioned in willful ignorance, seeing that at that time He was in willful rebellion. They who choose to sin, choose to sin willfully (besides those done out of ignorance, but still, even those sins of ignorance needed a sarcfice).
Yes the Law is Love and by faith we do establish the Law of the Spirit and yes its not JUST Faith alone.
It involves diligently adding to your faith, knowledge (thus dispelling ignorance), virtue, self control, perserverence, brotherly kindness and THEN LOVE. not love as the world teaches but as GOD teaches. LOVE.
ignorance is not to willing, it is to be blind and not have added to your faith knowledge, virtue and self control. Just the first three steps that God requires we walk with Him towards our upward calling. --The ignorance I speak of is: "the willful hardening of the heart towards God's spoken will". One cannot know God's will if one is stubborn to it by choice. And that is willful ignorance and is not a dark saying my sister. What a word means to one has a different spectrum to another.
Ignorance is not brought about by faithlessness, its brought about by lack of knowledge. -- Ignorance, my sister, is the very definition of : lack of knowledge. There is a lack of knowledge by one's will not to know. Faithlessness, by definiton, means 'to be unfaithful' and if we go back to Hebews 3 and 4, we will see that by them not being faithful to His Voice, then by their faithlessness, they did not come to know His will and thuse was ignorant of it.
according to the Law Paul was blameless.
when people wander away the problem is not a lack of faith but a lack of diligence to add to the faith God placed in their hearts already. too often the roots are too shallow and the heart too rocky. -- I agree. Unfaithfulness does lead one away. So, let us all remain faithful to His Voice so that we do not become ignorant of His will, and by such abandon Him.
how in the world do you get ignorant to mean willfully ignorant and faithless? -- Do not some, through freewill, choose not to know of God's ways? They in the wildereness choose not to be faithful to His Voice, and by such they were unknowing of God's ways in their faithlessness.
ignorant means they did not know that in their blindness they did not see. -- it is those who did not hearken from God's Voice who is being spoken about. They, of their own choice, did not desire to hear God's will. So yes, in their refusal to know God in their thinking they fell, inasmuch as we would fall if we refuse God His place in our thinking.
Paul/Saul did not willing sin, he did it out of ignorance because he was at the time blind to the truth of the Gospel of Christ as so many in the world is blind to the gospel but teach and follow a false Christ and False gospel. --Paul, not knowing God's will yet, did those things he mentioned in willful ignorance, seeing that at that time He was in willful rebellion. They who choose to sin, choose to sin willfully (besides those done out of ignorance, but still, even those sins of ignorance needed a sarcfice).
Yes the Law is Love and by faith we do establish the Law of the Spirit and yes its not JUST Faith alone.
It involves diligently adding to your faith, knowledge (thus dispelling ignorance), virtue, self control, perserverence, brotherly kindness and THEN LOVE. not love as the world teaches but as GOD teaches. LOVE.
ignorance is not to willing, it is to be blind and not have added to your faith knowledge, virtue and self control. Just the first three steps that God requires we walk with Him towards our upward calling. --The ignorance I speak of is: "the willful hardening of the heart towards God's spoken will". One cannot know God's will if one is stubborn to it by choice. And that is willful ignorance and is not a dark saying my sister. What a word means to one has a different spectrum to another.
Ignorance is not brought about by faithlessness, its brought about by lack of knowledge. -- Ignorance, my sister, is the very definition of : lack of knowledge. There is a lack of knowledge by one's will not to know. Faithlessness, by definiton, means 'to be unfaithful' and if we go back to Hebews 3 and 4, we will see that by them not being faithful to His Voice, then by their faithlessness, they did not come to know His will and thuse was ignorant of it.
according to the Law Paul was blameless.
when people wander away the problem is not a lack of faith but a lack of diligence to add to the faith God placed in their hearts already. too often the roots are too shallow and the heart too rocky. -- I agree. Unfaithfulness does lead one away. So, let us all remain faithful to His Voice so that we do not become ignorant of His will, and by such abandon Him.
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