There are many things in our culture that people actually believe are Biblical but are not. They are convinced of concepts that come out of psychology, even reading the Bible and seeing with psychological eyes the meaning written there. At close inspection and in context of the rest of the Bible we see these ideas are not from God, the devil has blinded people's eyes.
The key to this problem of psychological blindness is to ask the Holy Spirit for clear meaning, desiring to know truth even if it means swimming up stream against the culture.
Believers have placed too much credence to the "educators" as though they can know more than the Holy Spirit.
When we see those who mock the Holy Spirit, dismissing Him as a "concept" rather than a person who teaches and guides us, we will not hear Him, in fact He will stop speaking to us. We must want His guidance for Him to speak to us.
Matthew 12:31-33 "31 And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. 32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come. 33 “Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit."
Isaiah 59:2 ". 2 But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear. "
Proverbs 1:27-29 "…27 When your dread comes like a storm And your calamity comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. 28 "Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently but they will not find me, 29 Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the LORD.…"
Jeremiah 7:26-28 "…26"Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck; they did more evil than their fathers. 27"You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you. 28"You shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God or accept correction; truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.…"
We are now living in a time when most Christians will not listen to the Holy Spirit, they will not consult Him but worse they don't even want to hear from Him or about Him.
2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths."
Keep in mind that if everyone around you, even the ungodly are believing something to be true, it probably is not a principle of God. We live in a time when the devil is causing people to follow their own hearts rather than God's principles.
In a sentence: If the world loves it and teaches it, then it is probably wrong.
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