Friday, November 15, 2019

1st Corinthians 2:11: The things of God knoweth no man?

Since Satan would like us to believe that GOD is in no way like us mere mortals, we get verses like 1st Corinthians 2:11. I am fairly sure some fool changed the original wording to keep us from finding out the real truth. GOD is vastly better than we are right now, but it does not have to be that way forever. HE will always be our superior, but we do not have to remain on the opposite side of the holiness spectrum.

King James version

For what man knoweth the things of a man,

save the spirit of man which is in him?

even so the things of God knoweth no man,

but the Spirit of God.

If this verse is right then we can all just go about our lives in a quest for food, sleep, travel, leisure, money, and sex.

If we cannot know the things of God what is the point of this existence?

Thankfully Joseph Smith restored Paul's original meaning.

Joseph Smith Translation

For what man knoweth the things of a man,

save the spirit of man which is in him?

even so the things of God knoweth no man,

except he has the Spirit of God.

Ah, so we can know the things of God.

We just have to have God's Spirit. This entity but non-personage also goes by the title the Holy Ghost.

Our goal now should be to get the Holy Spirit.
Then we can get as much truth as possible directly from the mind of GOD.
We are only limited by our focus. The problem is we can only focus on one thing at a time. There is no such thing as multi-tasking in your mind. 

Fantasy football or soccer is not going to get anyone closer to the things of GOD. Working more than necessary to feed you and yours is not helpful in a quest for saving truth.
Boats, jet skis, golf (guilty) is an impediment to finding GOD, or His Truth, or His Son.
Binge-watching TV (guilty) and movies is OK... if you are OK with not finding truth.

We all know we are too distracted by the idols of this world.
We all know what are personal idols are.
Time to leave Babylon behind for something infinitely better.