During a Bible study I attended this morning, the presenter mentioned a passage that I thought went well with the post from yesterday titled “How do we know God?” The passage was 1 Corinthians 2:14. In looking a the larger passage associated with this verse, 1 Corinthians 2:6-16, that the Bible contrasts the wisdom of the age to the wisdom of God. Verse 12 says, we have received “the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.”
I think this verse makes the point that I was writing about yesterday. That to know God and the wisdom from God we must not rely on man’s wisdom but from the wisdom that comes from Spirit of God, who we have received.
The Bible says in Verses 14-16, “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?”But we have the mind of Christ.”
We must judge the things taught by those who are not spiritually alive to see if they align with the Word of God. The Word of God is God’s revelation of himself to us. If we superimpose an ideology on the revelation of God, we choose to know the mind of man over the mind of God.
