Dear Troy:<br><br>I have been specific, and every one else who has responded to you has been specific, as to the errors you, and Lewis, Nee, Sparks, Murray, the whole Keeswick following, and every "deeper life" and "free will" promoter of every description, embrace, and always have embraced. <br><br>As I said before there is no such thing as mans "free" will, it is in bondage to blindness, sin and the god of this world, who "blinds the minds" of his followers. It is a will, but it is not free. It has power, and it chooses, but it doesn't do so "freely" because it doesn't see things as they are.<br><br>You, being blind to what I'm saying, can't see the truth of it, and so you deny, refute, twist, turn, squirm, and contradict yourself and make every error of logic and manifest every symptom of confusion imaginable, and thus, are a perfect illustration of blindness to truth, for all but yourself, to see.<br><br>I do pray that the Lord will take pity on you and show you what only He can.<br><br>Perhaps if you spent a little less time defending yourself and fireing off glib answers and asked the Lord, as honestly as you can, that if perhaps we might be saying something that is true, even though you don't see it, that if He would show you any blindness that you have, for surely you must have some?; and any errors that these people might have taught you, for surely they weren't perfect in their knowledge?, didn't Paul say that now we see "darkly", including himself and you don't know more than Paul do you?; if you would ask Him to do so, to show you where you might have erred, perhaps this would be beneficial. I do this all the time when I am studying and interacting with people on the things of God, and sure enough, the Lord teaches me new things and shows me areas where I was wrong but thought I was right. <br><br>Perhaps this would be something you would consider?<br><br>Good night Troy, it's late here.<br><br><br><br>Gerry

Last edited by acts2027; Sat Jun 21, 2003 11:50 PM.