The Dangers of Soulish Life.

[Richie_2uk]

The Dangers of Soulish Life

Emotion is what believers mistake most for spirituality. Carnal Christians whose tendency is emotional in character habitually crave sensation in their lives. They desire to sense the presence of God in their hearts or their sensory organs; they yearn to feel a love-fire burning. They want to feel elated, to be uplifted in spiritual life, to be prosperous in work. True, spiritual believers sometimes do have such sensations, yet their progress and joy are not contingent upon these. The soulish are quite different in this respect: with such sensations, they can serve the Lord; without them, they can scarcely move a step.

They simply do what as as they feel like doing. Their quest for the presence of God, for the consciousness of His mercy and nearness, is not for God's sake but for their happiness. By so doing they are not loving the Lord; rather, they are loving the feeling which refreshes them and affords them the glory of the third heaven. Their total life and labor elevate self as the center. They wish to enjoy themselves.

How imperfect is our willingness and how fickle is our condition!

​

Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God's view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life. They must exercise faith in believing God's estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.

lack of advance means sure drift backward The fall of man was due to the love of knowledge and of wisdom. Satan is employing the same tactic today in order to retain the believer's soul as his operative center. God's people must not love their soul life even to the point of death. Unless self-love or self-pity is committed to the cross they shall surely be defeated by the adversary.

 

[4enlightment]

The word here that is translated “natural” is the Greek word PSUCHIKOS [yuxikoj] and it is found in one other passage in Scripture, Jude 19 where it should be translated “soulish” but the translators of the NASB have not been consistent. It is clear from that passage that the word’s meaning is defined by the last phrase, “devoid of the spirit.” http://www.divineviewpoint.com/sane/dbm/setup/1Corinth/1Cor015.htm

Genesis 25:27 The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents.

Genesis 25:28 Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Jonah 4:2 He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.

WWe live in a physical universe that consists of many opposites. This polarity can be found in all things including our emotions and feelings. For example, we know that for sadness there is joy, for love there is fear, for hatred there is compassion, for anger there is forgiveness, and so on. ​

The opposites reflect the dual nature of our creator, Father/Mother God. Eastern mystical teachings tell us that the male/female principle of polarity was and still is the driving force of creation that ordered and arranged our physical universe and all that it contains, including you.

On a much smaller scale, these two polarities of energy are an integral part of our soul and our nature. Prior to the Fall of humanity on planet Earth, our natural spirit-form was an androgynous Being of Light. Our one, whole, etheric body contained a masculine and feminine consciousness. Its one mind can be likened to a magnet with two, distinct poles of energy and influence. This one complete being was a divinely balanced blend of two twin consciousnesses within the same soul. e live in a physical universe that consists of many opposites. This polarity can be found in all things including our emotions and feelings. For example, we know that for sadness there is joy, for love there is fear, for hatred there is compassion, for anger there is forgiveness, and so on. ​

The opposites reflect the dual nature of our creator, Father/Mother God. Eastern mystical teachings tell us that the male/female principle of polarity was and still is the driving force of creation that ordered and arranged our physical universe and all that it contains, including you.

On a much smaller scale, these two polarities of energy are an integral part of our soul and our nature. Prior to the Fall of humanity on planet Earth, our natural spirit-form was an androgynous Being of Light. Our one, whole, etheric body contained a masculine and feminine consciousness. Its one mind can be likened to a magnet with two, distinct poles of energy and influence. This one complete being was a divinely balanced blend of two twin consciousnesses within the same soul. http://www.fromthestars.com/page128.html​

 

[Yet]

Father/ mother God?? Give us a scripture that backs the 'mother' deal please.

 

[Richie_2uk]

Father/ mother God?? Give us a scripture that backs the 'mother' deal please.

Who is that question aimed at?

because i never mentioned anything of mother?

 

[Richie_2uk]

The opposites reflect the dual nature of our creator, Father/Mother God.

Mother God? Do you have scripture to back this mother God thing?

 

[4enlightment]

Father/ mother God?? Give us a scripture that backs the 'mother' deal please.

To have balance in a household, there's must be a stern-side and a soft-side; you can't have one without the other. If you tries to raise a child with only sternness, will cause that child to be strict, unloving, uncaring, destructive, and very judgmental. But if you raise a child only with softness only will cause the child to be, careless, lawbreaker, and not dedicated. We need a balance of both like God has. At times God is stern, but then there's times He's compassionate. He had given men wives to bring in this balance, but remember, one is soft while the other is firm; and when you combine the two together will cause conflicts. But now God is showing that both party must be balance with being with firmness and softness before coming together to live in harmony.

Romans 12:16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.

2 Corinthians 6:15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

Femininity (also called feminity,[SUP][1][/SUP] womanliness or womanhood) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with girls and women. Femininity is socially constructed, but made up of both socially-defined and biologically-created factors.[SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][4][/SUP] This makes it distinct from the definition of the biological female sex,[SUP][5][/SUP][SUP][6][/SUP] as both men and women can exhibit feminine traits.
Traits traditionally cited as feminine include gentleness, empathy, and sensitivity,[SUP][7][/SUP][SUP][8][/SUP][SUP][9][/SUP] though traits associated with femininity vary depending on location and context, and are influenced by a variety of social and cultural factors.[SUP][10][/SUP] The counterpart to femininity is masculinity .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femininity

Strong's Concordance

chemlah: compassion, mercy​

Original Word: חֶמְלַת
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: chemlah
Phonetic Spelling: (khem-law')
Short Definition: compassion

 

[Richie_2uk]

To have balance in a household, there's must be a stern-side and a soft-side; you can't have one without the other. If you tries to raise a child with only sternness, will cause that child to be strict, unloving, uncaring, destructive, and very judgmental. But if you raise a child only with softness only will cause the child to be, careless, lawbreaker, and not dedicated. We need a balance of both like God has. At times God is stern, but then there's times He's compassionate. He had given men wives to bring in this balance, but remember, one is soft while the other is firm; and when you combine the two together will cause conflicts. But now God is showing that both party must be balance with being with firmness and softness before coming together to live in harmony.

Romans 12:16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.

2 Corinthians 6:15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

Femininity (also called feminity,[SUP][1][/SUP] womanliness or womanhood) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with girls and women. Femininity is socially constructed, but made up of both socially-defined and biologically-created factors.[SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][4][/SUP] This makes it distinct from the definition of the biological female sex,[SUP][5][/SUP][SUP][6][/SUP] as both men and women can exhibit feminine traits.
Traits traditionally cited as feminine include gentleness, empathy, and sensitivity,[SUP][7][/SUP][SUP][8][/SUP][SUP][9][/SUP] though traits associated with femininity vary depending on location and context, and are influenced by a variety of social and cultural factors.[SUP][10][/SUP] The counterpart to femininity is masculinity .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femininity

Strong's Concordance

chemlah: compassion, mercy​

Original Word: חֶמְלַת
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: chemlah
Phonetic Spelling: (khem-law')
Short Definition: compassion

this does not explain the mother God thing. are you try to derail this thread with untrue facts?
Please quote scripture to back up the Mother God thing.

 

[Richie_2uk]

Father/ mother God?? Give us a scripture that backs the 'mother' deal please.

He cant. he just fills us with his own thoughts on the matter. 3 times now he was asked to back up this mother God thing, and those 3 times he just gave ranting rubbish that has nothing to do with the op thread. Clearly a derailer.

 

[4enlightment]

this does not explain the mother God thing. are you try to derail this thread with untrue facts?
Please quote scriture to back the Mother God thing.

Although the Gender of God in Judaism is referred to in the Tanakh with masculine imagery and grammatical forms, Jewish philosophy does not attribute to God either sex or gender.[SUP][1][/SUP] At times, Jewish aggadic literature and Jewish mysticism do treat God as gendered.
The first words of the Tanakh are B'reshit bara Elohim — "In the beginning God created."[SUP][2][/SUP] The verb bara (he created) suggests a masculine subject. Elohim is also masculine in form. The most common phrases in the Tanakh are vayomer Elohim and vayomer YHWH — "and God said" (hundreds of occurrences).
Genesis 1:26-27 says that the elohim were male and female,[SUP][3][/SUP] and humans were made in their image.[SUP][4][/SUP]
Again, the verb vayomer (he said) is masculine; it is never vatomer, the feminine of the same verb form. The personal name of God, YHWH, is presented in Exodus 3 as if the Y(Hebrew yod) is the masculine subjective prefix to the verb to be.
Main article: I am that I am
In Psalms 89:26 God is referred to as Father. "He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation."[SUP][5][/SUP]
In Isaiah 62:5, God is compared to the bridegroom, and his people to the bride.

• "For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee."

In Isaiah 63:16, God is directly addressed and called "our Father".

• "Thou, O Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name." (ASV)

To God, according to Judaism, is attributed the fatherly role of protector. He is called the Father of the poor, of the orphan and the widow, their guarantor of justice. He is also called the Father of the king, as the teacher and helper over the judge of Israel.[SUP][6][/SUP]
Some literary approaches to the Tanakh have argued that parallels between Biblical stories and earlier Sumerian, Akkadian and Canaanite creation myths show a matriarchal substratum that has been overlaid by a patriarchal approach.[SUP][7][/SUP] "In the Bible, the earth is the feminine complement of God: the two combined to form man, who articulates their relationship, for example, in sacrifice."[SUP][8][/SUP]
[h=2]Rabbinical views[edit][/h]Judaism often relates to various "aspects" of God (cf. Sephirot). As Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan puts it, "[E]very name and every description that we may give to God can only apply to His relationship to His creation" [SUP][9][/SUP] Although God is not generally regarded as gendered in Judaism, Benjamin Blech writes that God has both masculine and feminine aspects.[SUP][10][/SUP]
In addition, God's "presence" (Shekinah) is a grammatically feminine word, and is often employed as a feminine aspect of God.
Many traditional rabbinic commentators, however, such as Maimonides, view any such beliefs as verging on avodah zarah (idolatry). Secondary male sexual characteristics are attributed to God in some piyuttim (religious poems). These include a description of the beard of God in Shir Hakavod (The Hymn of Glory), and similar poetic imagery in themidrash Song of the Seas Rabbah.
Traditional meforshim (rabbinic commentators) hold that these descriptions, like all physical descriptions of God, are metaphorical or symbolic. Gender of God in Judaism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Richie_2uk]

Although the Gender of God in Judaism is referred to in the Tanakh with masculine imagery and grammatical forms, Jewish philosophy does not attribute to God either sex or gender.[SUP][1][/SUP] At times, Jewish aggadic literature and Jewish mysticism do treat God as gendered.
The first words of the Tanakh are B'reshit bara Elohim — "In the beginning God created."[SUP][2][/SUP] The verb bara (he created) suggests a masculine subject. Elohim is also masculine in form. The most common phrases in the Tanakh are vayomer Elohim and vayomer YHWH — "and God said" (hundreds of occurrences).
Genesis 1:26-27 says that the elohim were male and female,[SUP][3][/SUP] and humans were made in their image.[SUP][4][/SUP]
Again, the verb vayomer (he said) is masculine; it is never vatomer, the feminine of the same verb form. The personal name of God, YHWH, is presented in Exodus 3 as if the Y(Hebrew yod) is the masculine subjective prefix to the verb to be.
Main article: I am that I am
In Psalms 89:26 God is referred to as Father. "He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation."[SUP][5][/SUP]
In Isaiah 62:5, God is compared to the bridegroom, and his people to the bride.

• "For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee."

In Isaiah 63:16, God is directly addressed and called "our Father".

• "Thou, O Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name." (ASV)

To God, according to Judaism, is attributed the fatherly role of protector. He is called the Father of the poor, of the orphan and the widow, their guarantor of justice. He is also called the Father of the king, as the teacher and helper over the judge of Israel.[SUP][6][/SUP]
Some literary approaches to the Tanakh have argued that parallels between Biblical stories and earlier Sumerian, Akkadian and Canaanite creation myths show a matriarchal substratum that has been overlaid by a patriarchal approach.[SUP][7][/SUP] "In the Bible, the earth is the feminine complement of God: the two combined to form man, who articulates their relationship, for example, in sacrifice."[SUP][8][/SUP]
Rabbinical views[edit]

Judaism often relates to various "aspects" of God (cf. Sephirot). As Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan puts it, "[E]very name and every description that we may give to God can only apply to His relationship to His creation" [SUP][9][/SUP] Although God is not generally regarded as gendered in Judaism, Benjamin Blech writes that God has both masculine and feminine aspects.[SUP][10][/SUP]
In addition, God's "presence" (Shekinah) is a grammatically feminine word, and is often employed as a feminine aspect of God.
Many traditional rabbinic commentators, however, such as Maimonides, view any such beliefs as verging on avodah zarah (idolatry). Secondary male sexual characteristics are attributed to God in some piyuttim (religious poems). These include a description of the beard of God in Shir Hakavod (The Hymn of Glory), and similar poetic imagery in themidrash Song of the Seas Rabbah.
Traditional meforshim (rabbinic commentators) hold that these descriptions, like all physical descriptions of God, are metaphorical or symbolic. Gender of God in Judaism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

4enlightment. I think you need to grow up. and stop trying to derail people's threads with your rubbish rants. If you cant answer a simple question, then don't bother to write anything at all. Asked you to back up your comment on the mother God quote. But I see its a problem for you. Were in the bible? says anything about mother God? what are the scriptures?

What you have said has nothing to do with the op, and furthmore to the question I have asked repeatedly.

clearly you are trying your attempt to derail this thread. and its not working. everyone is seeing your stupidness and will start if not started already to see the type of person you are.

Why don't you be honest and say that you don't know instead of ranting on rubbish that has nothing to do with the op. You have repeatedly ignored the question asked. So I thinks it best that we ignore your idiotic derailment of this thread.

 

[4enlightment]

I see a lot of people on this site that condemn the Catholics, the very ones that had composed the Holy Bible. But they in total agreement with the Catholics in what books should be kept and what books should be banned. One book was banned from the Bible and that was the Gospel of Thomas; It was over a verse that the disciples wanted Mary from out of the room while men are talking about business, but Jesus told them to allow her to be with us so that she can become like us male. They thought that this verse was promoting homosexuality and they know that the earth is filled with idiots and that they will not see the spiritual nature of that meaning of the verse. But in our times, even an idiot can see that God doesn't see the way man see things and which the scriptures has shown when He chosen David as king.

 

[selenah]

The Dangers of Soulish Life

Emotion is what believers mistake most for spirituality. Carnal Christians whose tendency is emotional in character habitually crave sensation in their lives. They desire to sense the presence of God in their hearts or their sensory organs; they yearn to feel a love-fire burning. They want to feel elated, to be uplifted in spiritual life, to be prosperous in work. True, spiritual believers sometimes do have such sensations, yet their progress and joy are not contingent upon these. The soulish are quite different in this respect: with such sensations, they can serve the Lord; without them, they can scarcely move a step.

They simply do what as as they feel like doing. Their quest for the presence of God, for the consciousness of His mercy and nearness, is not for God's sake but for their happiness. By so doing they are not loving the Lord; rather, they are loving the feeling which refreshes them and affords them the glory of the third heaven. Their total life and labor elevate self as the center. They wish to enjoy themselves.

How imperfect is our willingness and how fickle is our condition!

​

Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God's view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life. They must exercise faith in believing God's estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.

lack of advance means sure drift backward The fall of man was due to the love of knowledge and of wisdom. Satan is employing the same tactic today in order to retain the believer's soul as his operative center. God's people must not love their soul life even to the point of death. Unless self-love or self-pity is committed to the cross they shall surely be defeated by the adversary.

God said charity/love is the most important thing. I always thought love was emotional