If you don't like how I relate to the Holy Spirit, and how he relates to me, that's your problem. We have an intimate relationship and he's one of my best friends. He's more than willing to hear out your complaints about our relationship, but I don't think you're going to like his response.

I think your response is fucking shitty as hell, and you can take that literally. I think your demons have too much access to your tongue. Clearly you have a lot to learn about the nature of Father, Jesus, and Holy Spirit, who are the most humble people that exist and love to serve, and lead through service.

Scripture is God's word, but scripture isn't God.

When you center yourself on scripture absent an intimate relationship with God, you will come out with shaming, judgmental takes like this one.

Clearly, you're quite religious and probably quite legalistic and obviously judgmental.

It's obvious based on your manipulative and error ridden, caustic response you don't understand how God wants to relate to people.

For the sake of other people who will read this, God is perfect, good, and unlimited. He wants intimacy and closeness with you, which he demonstrates repeatedly through scripture, from Adam to Revelations 21, from King David to Moses to Jesus Himself, who is one with the Father and abided in the Father's love.

Jesus died and rose again to bring you into intimate relationship with the Father, and wants to be one with you. Please don't believe Contra's lies.

Contra, you can continue to misunderstand and respond caustically, manipulatively, and controllingly if you want to, and if that's the case, I'll mute you. But if you want to dial back your attitude and seek first to understand then to be understood with some humility and kindness, we can continue to interact.

Otherwise, have a nice life.

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Your version of “intimacy” with the Holy Spirit sounds more like emotional projection than biblical truth. The Holy Spirit is not your “best friend” on your terms. He is the Spirit of the holy God, who testifies to Christ, not your feelings.

Yes, Scripture isn’t God, but it is God-breathed (2 Tim. 3:16), and you don’t get to pit “relationship” against the Word. That’s how cults start.

True intimacy with God comes through His means, not your imagination. And His means are Word, sacrament, prayer, and obedience, not vibes, not feelings, and certainly not foul-mouthed rebukes in His name.

God is not your life coach. He’s your Creator, Lawgiver, Judge, and Redeemer.

Repent of your arrogance. The Holy Spirit convicts of sin, and does not coddle it

The depth of your error with the Holy Spirt, and with scripture, is unfortunately great. God invented the spirit, soul, body, heart, mind, and will.

Of course my relationship with the Holy Spirit is emotional. His name is literally Comforter.

And in case you didn't know, here are the two greatest commandments according to Jesus.

1. Love God with all your heart, soul, and mind.

2. Love your neighbor as yourself.

Emotions are not all that comprises a relationship with God, but are certainly involved, as Jesus implies.

The Holy Spirit and I can have whatever relationship we want, and there's nothing you can do to stop it, including the harsh way you're writing to me. You might ask yourself why my personal relationship with the Holy Spirit bothers you so much that you're willing to publicly shit on it? Honestly, you're behaving very strangely and with extreme emotional and interpersonal insensitivity, and it's not good.

God is my life coach, my dad, my friend, my business partner, my mother, my therapist, and however He wants to interact with me, and the rest of humanity, and He's my almighty God, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. You can try to steal, kill, and destroy as you are now, and if you want to live that way, go for it. But I'm not interested in living by your damaging and harsh lies.

Arrogance? Lol. Another lie.

I hope you realize that the horrific and disrespectful and shaming way you're interacting with me is how you're interacting with your own heart, and that's not good, doesn't help people, and doesn't bring God glory.

And by extension is how you're interacting with everyone in relationship with you. You may want to re-evaluate your interpersonal style, regardless of me, in your own life, because I would predict people around you generally are either as harsh as you, or walk on eggshells.

Have a good life Contra. This will be my last response to you.

I sincerely hope you find intimacy with Father, Jesus, and Holy Spirit, as I have.

When you leave sola scriptura, you eventually build a god in your own image.

He talks like you.

Thinks like you.

Swears like you.

Never corrects you.

Always affirms you.

But that god can’t save you.

Only the One who speaks through His Word can.

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