O'Connell's Off Topic

These things are elementary and rudimentary at best and misleading and full of holes at worst which can lead to bad decisions and judgments. I used to study things such as this and while there is some validity (though not that much in this one) to it the problem is, it is not complete or reliable. Even our own conscience is proven to be unreliable when, for example we have a child who wants candy and we say no and the corrupted conscience can actually suggest guilt at the mere sight of those puppy dog eyes of the saddened child.

You can learn about the 5 love languages, the 5 intuitions, the 4 personality types, the fundamental differences between men and women and etc. but as I discovered there is an endless supply of such observances but no power to master them and even if you could there would still be more to master as you became aware of it and then for all your human efforts you end up with nothing to take beyond the grave.

In stark contrast to this I found that the Lord Jesus is the answer. While we may try to learn how to read body language and voice inflections and etc. and then to compare all that we can gather (hoping it is all correct) intuitively to all previous relationships, we will still meet with much failure and despair because we cannot know all things much less master them all.

In Christ we have a better and far easier WAY ! In Him we no longer recognize men according to the flesh at all. Instead we can know people according to what the Spirit who knows all, may reveal to us. When I met my wife, for example I knew right away that I was going to marry her. We married just a few weeks later and after 6 years we now have a beautiful 4 year old daughter. I knew we would marry despite the fact that she had told me she was seriously considering dating someone else.

That’s the great thing about the full salvation of the Lord is that He purifies us of the things that are wrong within our soul’s and hearts and then begins to infuse Himself into us so that we can begin to live on a higher plane of life and living.

Many of you probably only think of Christ as the redeemer who saves us from eternal punishment but that is only just the beginning. That is only the starting point by which He can begin to dispense His perfect divine/human nature into us. In dealing with the very negative self nature He also infuses us with a mutual love and fellowship with Himself and one another. This is a FAR better life than what one can ever hope to achieve by learning and trying to master a mere superficial human knowledge about ourselves. There is no comparison between the two, and then to add insult to injury, the best of human lives now can only last a few decades and then it’s done and gone ! Only eternal things will last.

Don't feed the troll...

It's perfectly fine for you to troll my posts, eh and high jack them but you don’t seem to like it nearly so well when someone provides an opposing truth to your religion of psychology and philosophy.

These are false religions in the sense that they are deeply held beliefs that you incorporate into your life for your betterment and development, which in contrast to that we have the true way of development which is the Son of God, the one who created us all.

For some reason you do not want to debate your BELIEFS, you only want people to agree with you and say how wonderful are the insights of you and other men. Psychology, philosophy and cultural refinement have been around for centuries and yet just look at the world today and see how effective it is…NOT. The human race is a total and complete failure entirely inept at dealing with all the his propensities in corruption and sins.

Throughout human history there have been very few who have achieved a relative state of true refinement and moral integrity such as Confucius, but they as he, led a very strict and extreme lifestyle so as to achieve what they did. The trouble with these few is that they still were not perfected and still will suffer punishment because they rejected God’s way and defiantly chose their own way and still died in their sins. What ever they did achieve was left behind at the grave.

Now then we have the advancement and propagation of self help and psychological and therapeutic help from people who are not aware of all the complex intricacies of the human soul and heart, who based upon their shallow and superficial observances wish to claim some kind of real and substantial help. Most of the time people are hurt and not helped at all by this junk. You want to know why ? It does not and cannot even touch the deepest parts of the heart and soul and does not even address the spirit as well. We are tripartite beings; body , soul and spirit. In addition to this we have the function of the heart which is a composite of the three parts of the soul (mind, will and emotions) along with one part of the spirit (conscience). We also have a very negative element within our persons which we Christians know to be the flesh or the sin nature. This corruption is in the body but it also has migrated into the inner man of the soul mutating it into the SELF. These are foreign elements which if not dealt with, can never be overcome. The best your religion of psychology can do is to make observations so as to “motivate” them by the activity of the emotions and the will to mask this sinful nature. Man has also identified pharmaceuticals which are also able to offer another type of masking effect but these have side effects and still do not cure the problems. These only subvert the symptoms just like taking cough medicine.

Only God has the final and true solution in Jesus Christ the new and perfect man. First God has to address the very negative elements of the sin nature in the body and the SELF in the soul, and change the dead heart of stone into living flesh. The only effective way of dealing with the flesh and the SELF unfortunately is through death. This is why Jesus said you must die to self and take up your cross. When we are baptized into Christ we make His objective and all inclusive death our own. The cross is needed continually to keep the flesh and the SELF dead and subjugated to God in our spirit.

From there God can begin to dispense the new and perfect man of Christ into our whole being transforming us into conformity to Jesus. This whole and complete salvation is a lengthy one as it involves many things such as purging, purifying, refining, sanctifying, transforming and etc.

This is the condensed version but the point is, this is man’s only true help while you wish to offer a cheap substitute. Why would you think you can offer your weak and limited self help methods and yet say I cannot offer mine? Why can you refute and denigrate me for mine but hold yourself to a different standard, especially considering yours is no real help in the end anyway ?

Hypocrisy…

Men and women both have this so called intuition. Psychology has explained this as being the recorded data files in your heart which are accessed in a split second which serves as an aid to help us in processing information quickly so as to make a judgment or decision in a timely manor. Though this is an AID, it is not 100% reliable or accurate since it is limited only to your own personal and subjective life's experiences.

The only thing 100% reliable is by turning to the Lord via the intuition of your spirit to be your perfect aid or guide. If we let Him, He even becomes our life partner and He will never lead us wrong. It's pretty kool too because He knows all things. He even helps in ways that nothing else can such as I find on a weekly and sometimes even a daily basis the Spirit letting me know what to do in traffic situations so as to avoid a crash. This occurs in my spirit's intuition so that as soon as I feel it I also respond in the appropriate way. I have changed lanes or no apparent reason only to find that the care right next to me didn't even look and was moving into my lane.

I wish you all would believe me about how wonderful it is to walk with Him and forget about all these human ways of self observation, self help and self development. They are very weak and limited and in the end account for nothing eternally.

Godman can we there be one conversation on here not involving God?