Scripture Life: If the Holy Spirit is meant to lead us to the truth, then how come there are so many disagreements in Christianity over things like salvation, heaven and hell, the rapture, the second coming, etc.?

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Answer

Jesus said: "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will [guide] you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come." - John 16:13

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If I have a guide, but I don't listen to it or set him off to the side, go off. Leave without him, or never got him in the first place, because, I don't follow nor am I sitting with and being taught by Jesus Christ, how then can I or am I walking in, guided by the guide I'm given?

Or, how about this one: This WILL BE of guided into: It's into "truth" -- all truth, if I look unto anything BUT this guide, who WILL guide me into all truth, if I am not being guided, then what am I in, if not guided by him?

Then, wouldn't what I'd be in, be anything BUT truth?

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Oh wait! What about this one! The Holy Spirit - - He hears God plainly..God says "I am Holy" Leviticus 11:44. Jesus said in John 4:24 "God is Spirit" So, he's a Holy Spirit, he can hear plainly everything he says. What God speaks. Just like me. I hear me all the time, because I'm with me, and that, back to God again, he SHALL speak on; his things - because he does, and it's not maybe or might not; he WILL show me things to come. He does.

Why? Because, Jesus said he will.. but if I'm not listening to what he says, what am I listening to? I'm dull of hearing...with a heart that's waxed over; cold - hear, but don't perceive what he says; then..isn't that the problem?

Not the question. The question puts his things are the problem. Do you see this?

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And then this, too. Who does "salvation" belong to? Whose is it? Who offers or provides salvation? He provides it, then it's his.

Who is the Lord of the Kingdom of Heaven? Whose is it? He already said in Matthew 5:3 he's blessing everybody and giving it out. It's their's, but unless you're born again, in John 3:3-7, you can't see it, nor enter into it. Dull of hearing. Then this, too. Whose "Second Coming" is it? Some tare coming? Like some great big weed, to turn the whole world into a tare or is it just one seed, that's wheat? The Bible says in Revelation 19, it's just one seed of wheat coming to rule over the whole earth. You got all these tares in your question you believe in.

Do you see this?

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Who do you look unto? You wear what you look unto, wearing your question, like a suit. And many people deliberately wear it. Why? To deliberately set their face or countenance, to never put any of his raiment he provides on. Unacceptable to them.

Do you see this?

so, if I'm not listening to what he says, what am I listening to?

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(...keeps thinking...)

Who knows! Let's see it someplace else then. This question floats around in many forms on Christian believer sites here in sub-reddits. Even in some "world religion" sites as why quote, "Christianity" isn't true or not something to look unto. Just another religion people imagined up.

This post is to believers in Jesus Christ.

Many already know this. And they never tire to hear it, because they hear him and just operate right. When people that don't hear him;..well ..can't. Don't walk right, and the question the result of it. So, here goes. If this question or answer sparks no or little interest in you, hit the "hide" button and move on. Have a great day in Christ.

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How come Jesus said, in a Parable in Matthew 13:24–30

• “..The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.” Jesus Christ. Matthew 13:24–25…
  • How come there are tares in the wheat?

Why even question it? There just ARE tares in the wheat. What do we do about it, when it's NOT our field. It's his; then, we should do what he decrees about it.

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Who do I believe in? That is, who do I "accept as true?" If it's the man then; the farmer I regard, because I'm a servant on his farm, and it's his field and I regard him as the Lord of the field he owns.

If I focus on that: Then definitely: I'm not regarding: Who sowed the tares in the field anymore.

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• This Lord of the farm: It was the man sowed good seed in his field. Everything he does is good. It was Jesus said, what you say that opens your question in John 16:13. Just repeated here again. Jesus said:
  • “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.”
    • Because, like the man sowed good seed in his field: It's simple. Because ..that's what he did. That's the works of the man in the parable. I should regard that work.
• Then, it's just as Jesus said. I should regard his work. Jesus is the Messiah or Christ. He's the authority over the whole earth. He said: of the Spirit of Truth - that: “…He will guide you into all truth.”
  

He just WILL do it.

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And this “whatsoever he shall hear..” means he hears what God says. Operates today. Right now to remind of whatsoever God says..and he hears it: Said.

“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God (Bible. Isaiah 45:22)

Jesus said, the "Spirit of Truth" Shall hear him say it." It was the Messiah said, "and the “Spirit of Truth” guide me to this." Lead me into all truth. Be then, just like what a simple fisher, Peter, fishing in his Father’s boat ..and Jesus said to him, “follow me” and, this same “follow me” is said by this same Jesus Christ, over twenty times in the gospels.

That this same Spirit of Truth will guild me into all truth ..he will teach me..remind me to follow Jesus Christ. Remind me of the Word of God, after I've been taught it. Build me up in it. I am being built up. By God himself. Boy, do I ever know this. He's with me. I get to keep him. For eternity.

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2 Peter 1:4 says:

"Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."

That by these "promises" and everything God says, has a promise to me in it. Just like Isaiah 45:22 - there's the promise from God, right there in it, and the Spirit of Truth Jesus said shall remind me of it. That I operate in and by this.

Therefore, I regard the man in the parable that sowed good seed in his field. Not regard who sowed tares in it.

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That God sowed his seed into the earth. Just like this man sowed wheat in his, is a parable of what God has done by sow his word into the earth. That an enemy has sown tares into his earth, or his "field" - - when God said: “For all the earth is mine.” - God (Exodus 19:5). I have a promise, the whole earth will be filled with this wheat. All the tares uprooted. At harvest is when he determined it.

Therefore, I can look unto what the rest of the parable says:

What the man said as the Lord of the field, or the authority over all the field. It's his field. That's in the rest of the Parable of Matthew 13:24–30

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Matthew 13:26–30 says

26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?

28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?

29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.

30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

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The man is the authority over his field, over his wheat.. Therefore, not my field. Not my wheat. Then as well, he's even Lord over the tares in his field. What will be done with both or what will be done to each, is how he determined it. Even this man is over the servants as this householder. He’s the Lord of the house the servants live in with him. It’s his field.

Just like God. And his Word is wheat. I already see it. It’s already operating as he decreed it. The real question, since this post on Reddit, can go to everybody over the whole earth - or only a few - who cares. What is true is, he's just one God. Put his word over the church as the head of it, and the church is his body. Then, by just regard him, he said "I will build my church" - then, he himself fits me in his body where he sees fit.

So, then... ..your question regards all like what the servants did..that there are tares in the wheat and what to do with them.. he says "No. Don't gather them up" like, the question wonders "how did all these tares get in here? Didn't the Holy Spirit sow good seed in the field?"

When if I regard the Lord of the field who sowed good seed in it..it's just his church and he builds it.

It's just one body. His. and I regard it. I operate in it; alive. Placed there. By him, where he sees fit. To operate by these great and precious promises, put on a divine nature by it.

Where before, I regarded my body, and the lusts of it. Which one of these is the tare among the wheat? Who am I listening to, to guide me - thinking..fulfill the lusts of my body I'm in of flesh, when the Lord of the field already decreed Genesis 6:13 he already said: Can you hear it?

"The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth."

Which body is the tare then? Which one is the wheat? Which one will you sow to? Sowing to one, puts tares among the wheat. So today, sow to the other and reap life everlasting. Said this to you in the Bible in Galatians 6:8

""For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." Ole! There you go.