2007-02-26 03:57:08 · 9 answers · asked by G-Bob 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You must place your faith in God and not in people.
God gives us the scripture and the Holy Spirit that we may know when people are attempting to claim something is scriptural and it is not.
For example, marriage is of God but the current laws and ceremonies are of people. We know this because scripture tells us. If you put your faith in people and the traditions of people you believe that a specific set of material tasks define the beginning of a marriage. If you put your faith in God you believe that God defines the beginning of a marriage.
Read the scripture, you cannot understand it without the Holy Spirit so if there is something you do not understand ask God. people mean well but we are all sinners and can only lead a person in sin.
God leads a person out of sin. people cannot do anything, although quite a few think they can.
2007-02-26 04:16:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Through prayer and studying the word of God. Maintianing a constant worship. I would advise making sure you aren't anchored by the things of the world like money, cars, sex, and food/drinks.
2007-02-26 12:07:46 · answer #2 · answered by se-ke 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Divine Benevolence makes it necessary that the prophets be sent as the guides to teach the people religious ordinances and laws so as to lead them to their prosperity in this and the next world. This goal can be accomplished only if the prophets are protected from committing any errors in delivering the divine message to humanity. Otherwise, human beings could make an excuse for not having received authentic directives from God. In other words, a prophet should be immune from any kind of error and forgetfulness in conveying the divine revelation to the people. This is known as `isma ('protection' or 'immunity' = 'infallibility'). Moreover, a prophet himself should be an exemplary person, having followed all the divine injunctions in his personal life. It is only then that he can call upon people to follow the divine guidance, demonstrating its validity through his own character and conduct. In this way the people can follow him confidently toward their own true perfection. In addition, it is a rationally derived proposition that no person can expect others to carry out moral and religious directives when he himself does not follow the same. A call to the divine path must be exemplified by the prophet.
It is obvious that our own knowledge and perceptions are not free of error, because they are conditioned by the way our sensory perceptions receive them. No one can deny the numerous times when our senses have made errors in perception. However, when that knowledge and those ordinances come in the form of divine guidance from God, delivered through the revelation to the prophets, these are immune from such dangers. In fact, revelation is not the kind of knowledge that is derived from sensory perceptions. Otherwise, it too would have been prone to same dangers as human perceptions are, depriving people of the confidence that is necessary in religious ordinances. Religious truth and knowledge about hidden matters is given to the prophets through revelation which descends upon their heart and their inner self. This very truth is experienced by these prophets in their earthly existence, which they convey to the people in accord with their capacity to understand and to follow it. Hence, the religious truth given to the prophets and delivered to the people by them remains immune from any falsehood or error.
It is for this reason that the prophets are protected from disobedience and error of judgement, and are empowered to act upon their knowledge. How can it be otherwise? A person who has attained that level of truth through experience and direct observation cannot be expected to act contrary to that truth. Moreover, after attaining such a level of perfection he cannot be expected to forfeit that blessing by falling into sinful deviation.
2007-02-26 12:00:44 · answer #3 · answered by health_message_foru 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thru prayer, thru His Word and by doing His will instead of our own,by giving yourself over to Him
2007-02-26 12:02:37 · answer #4 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Reading the Bible and praying are the two best methods.
2007-02-26 12:01:56 · answer #5 · answered by Paulie D 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
through love
2007-02-26 12:01:44 · answer #6 · answered by nobody 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Through His word (i.e. the Bible), and through prayer.
2007-02-26 12:00:33 · answer #7 · answered by lil_bit 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You just have to imagine really hard.
2007-02-26 12:00:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
By sending money.
2007-02-26 12:00:34 · answer #9 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋