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Originally Posted by Cosmosis
. I tell them that I don't feel the need to wear my spirituality on my sleeve.. and they do not agree.
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Cosmosis,
Actually you would be advanced in comparison to your friends if your spirituality was even more evident. As you describe it these friends are not spiritual but instead are religious fundamentalists. It is sola Scriptura taken to a literal extreme. They might deny it but I would guess that they are less than comfortable with the entire Gospel of John.
Read John 5:39-40.
Read John 3:3
Read John 14:12
Read John 14:16-17
John in all these verses presents the pleas by Jesus to become spiritual….the verse from John 5 particularly warning against total reliance on the Scriptures. The Scriptures present learned truth….which is good…but the Spirit is the door to personally experienced truth…..these 2 truths are 2 different things.