He got started on his spiritual path when he was quite young, he said, he didn't believe what the churches taught, he said. Somehow they never answered the questions Where did we come from, why are we here and where are we going?
Really? How odd. Of course I don't know what "churches" he is talking about but surely it is fair to assume he means some pretty standard Christian churches, in which the Bible is taught as inerrant, and in that case the answer is given quite clearly to all those questions. We descended from Adam and Eve, we are here to come to know God, and we are going either to Heaven or Hell in the end. Seems pretty clear that it isn't that he didn't find any wanswers but that he didn't like the answers he got from the churches. As he went on to pursue various other
I'm talking about another interview on Next Level Soul. Hans something or other, Wilhelm? I couldn't quite make it out. Apparently my ears aren't a lot better than my eyes. religions and occultic practices he apparently liked their answers better.
He doesn't like Christianity at all, and he keeps talking as if his own preferences amount to the truth rather than just his own preferences. And I suppose he sounds credible to all those people out there who nothing whatever about Christianity.
And yet what else can I do? It's futile both because they who are persuaded of all that nhonsense don't have the faculty to hear what's wrong with it, not being regenerated but mere fallen human beings, and becuase my own spiritual faculty is not in the best shape so that I fail all the time to convey what I want to convey.
Try anyway.
Of course it is all of grace. We can only believe and know God's word because He has regenerated us, because we are born again. In our fallen state the Bible is nonsense to the reader and hearer. When they discover the powers of the soul, which Watchman Nee has brought to my attention, they now have an answer to the Bible's incomprehensibility to them. they mistake the soul powers for the spiritual powers that commjunicate with God. They can't communicate with God but the demons who do communicate with our soul powers can easily ;create a false impression and call it God and convince the unwary fallen mind.
They don't find the biblical revelation of who we are and where we came from and why we are here to be convincing. One life? But then some have it good and many have it bad and how is that fair, how does that show a loving GOd? For mself it was only when I discovered the biblical understanding of who we are and where we came from and why we are here that I finally knew there is a real reasonable and meanfinful answer to all those questions. Original sin was a reveleat ion to me because it answered the question of why this life is so full of ugliness, or disease and death, of wars and hostilities and so on. It makes no sense if you think this life is just normal life.
Who we are is God's creation for the purpose of creating a people after His own heart, a people who reflect His own being and share in His plans. That's our purpose, that's why we are here, but there are many who won't join in this purpose but be led off into all sorts of weird fables and ultimately end up in Hell.
