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Originally Posted by theophilus
Perhaps he was replying but you weren't looking in the right place to hear his replies. You said you were praying. Were you also studyihg the Bible to see what it said about your beliefs? Prayer is the way we speak to God. The Bible is the way God speaks to us. We must do both and establish a two way communication with God if we want to understand his will.
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The Bible is the way God speaks to us... well some people believe it, but more penticoastal people believe in talking to the Holy Spirit.
Paul himself did not just keep reading the Old Testament and continue to be a Jew. Paul himself heard NEW information from God directly and changed his views accordingly.
So did disciples. Jesus changed the way they believed. They could have said that Jesus was a liar and stick to their old beliefs. But they chose to adapt to the new beliefs.
Should we not act like Paul and the disciples? If Paul thought that the Old Testament was superceded by the new testament, why not us believing that the new testament is superceded by the new things we are discovering now?
Paul said: the second coming was a mystery to the old Jews and was only revealed in Paul's time.
Well, there could be mysteries that are being revealed in our times to us... since people were not ready to accept them in the previous times...
Religious beliefs do not stay the same. If you follow history of them and how they keep breaking up into different denominations, it shows that it's an everchanging process, as new revelations as being revealed.
And yes, someone could say: it's just Satan's deception.
But just because Satan may deceive, it still does not change the facts I listed above.