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Originally Posted by september  T
- belief systems that trap you into a certain way of thinking. A way of saying it might be that they think that a system that necessitates this kind of submission to revelation to get capital-T Truth is necessarily false, because the Truth (or even truth) shouldn't necessitate such closed-minded tactics, whether it be God's presence or whatever. |
Most people think that humans have the authority over their own minds and freedom to choose what thoughts and experiences they allow to form into their individual beliefs. Because of that authority, a person can choose to believe there is not a God or that God or the god force is in all of us and there is no need for us to seek Him because He is Us and we are Him or that the universe is the source of all us and has no purpose, intent or lesson for us other than we just "be" much like electricity just is. Or they can believe that since there can be no way to prove spiritual things and we can never know for sure, a constant state of not knowing is the best approach....all of which are all belief systems.
My point would be in mentioning the spiritual revelation would be that Jesus taught that His church would not be built on what man or flesh and blood said about Him but in a spiritual way from God Himself. Because there is a condition that you be open to a revelation or that one must ask and allow to receive it, in respect of the sovereignty over one's own mind, that requirement of openness, in and of itself, does not make the belief system false.
It seems to me that the belief system that God should reveal Himself to all people in the same way with or without their permission and willingness or that the condition of a true belief system is that there be no conditions or allowing involved could also be false.