wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual."
This verse is found in 1 Corinthians 2:13 if you want to look at the context.
**Thank you for your time and consideration
2007-04-12 04:51:19 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wow, you aleady got the answer with your first couple of posts.
That is evidence of God. The Holy Spirit brings a wisdom that is not normally had. The weight of what is said in the bible can be witnessed by those so guided. It's a daily miracle taken for granted all too many times.
2007-04-12 05:00:32 · answer #1 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you are asking is about the communion, but the Jews only understood this naturally; they didn't yet have spiritual understanding. We don't actually eat Jesus, or drink His blood; this would be against the word of God in Leviticus 17:10-12. The communion requires someone to have spiritual understanding, and only Christians have spiritual understanding. Read 1 Corinthians 2:14-16. Romans 10:8-10 is how anyone can be born again.
2016-05-18 01:41:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Verse 13. Which things also we speak] We dare no more use the language of the Jews and the Gentiles in speaking of those glorious things, than we can indulge their spirit. The Greek orators affected a high and florid language, full of tropes and figures, which dazzled more than it enlightened. The rabbins affected obscurity, and were studious to find out cabalistical meanings, which had no tendency to make the people wise unto salvation. The apostles could not follow any of these; they spoke the things of God in the words of God; every thing was plain and intelligible; every word well placed, clear, and nervous. He who has a spiritual mind will easily comprehend an apostle's preaching.
Comparing spiritual things with spiritual.] This is commonly understood to mean, comparing the spiritual things under the Old Testament with the spiritual things under the New: but this does not appear to be the apostle's meaning. The word sugkrinontev, which we translate comparing, rather signifies conferring, discussing, or explaining; and the word pneumatikoiv should be rendered to spiritual men, and not be referred to spiritual things. The passage therefore should be thus translated: Explaining spiritual things to spiritual persons. And this sense the following verse absolutely requires.
2007-04-12 04:57:07 · answer #3 · answered by Dr. Linder 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe reading it from a more modern version will help a little.
1 Corinthians 2:9-16 (NLT)
9 That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”
10 But we know these things because God has revealed them to us by his Spirit, and his Spirit searches out everything and shows us even God’s deep secrets.
11 No one can know what anyone else is really thinking except that person alone, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit.
12 And God has actually given us his Spirit (not the world’s spirit) so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.
13 When we tell you this, we do not use words of human wisdom. We speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths.
14 But people who aren’t Christians can’t understand these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them because only those who have the Spirit can understand what the Spirit means.
15 We who have the Spirit understand these things, but others can’t understand us at all.
16 How could they? For, “Who can know what the Lord is thinking? Who can give him counsel?”But we can understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ.
1. What he is saying here is that no human knows what another human feels or thinks.
2. And no human knows what God feels or thinks.
3. A human can only teach what a human can understand and knows only what another human has taught.
4. But The Holy Spirit knows Gods thoughts, wants and desires.
5. And the Holy Spirit has taught them what they sould teach others.
6. Therefore what they are teaching the people has been taught to them directly by the Spirit of God who fully understands spiritual things and not by another man who can not fully understand spiritual things.
Hope that helps some.
2007-04-12 05:15:11 · answer #4 · answered by Rev R 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Latter:
International Standard Version -
1Co 2:13 We don't speak about these things in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, as we explain spiritual things to spiritual people
As it pertains here at R&S is an excellent example. Those of us who are Christian try to answer questions from others who believe differently in the same way we might speak to each other....of faith, belief, and experiences. Those who do not believe as we do find it hard to understand why we feel the way we do because they have not experienced it or have not for a very long time.
It's as if we are speaking different languages. This verse tells us that in a manner...we are.
The Skeptical Christian
Grace and Peace
Peg
2007-04-12 05:03:51 · answer #5 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
From a different translation: "This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words."
I think it suggests not to speak/believe/hear what the world/humans teach you but all through the spirit of God believe. Basically, suggesting that you learn from God/the Holy spirit rather than human knowledge and the human ways. That way you believe/feel/teach God's ways ("Holy Ghost") and compare it with God's way... rather than comparing the human ways with the Holy Ghost's ways (spiritual vs. nonspiritual, holy vs. nonholy).
2007-04-12 05:00:43 · answer #6 · answered by ♥ Mommy To Be 12/20/09 ♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Holy Spirit reveals spiritual truth and gives the appropriate words to express that truth.
2007-04-12 05:29:00 · answer #7 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I think it's pretty simple. The Apostle Paul was making a clear distinction and saying that what he taught was from the spirit... the Holy Spirit... as opposed to man's idea of wisdom.
2007-04-12 04:56:45 · answer #8 · answered by Q&A Queen 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think it means that we have to have faith in what our personal relationship with the Holy Spirit tells us, not what man tells us.
The verse also applies to the things we read or hear in this R&S forum. Whether the words are coming from me or from someone else, before accepting them as truth, pray and listen to what your spirit tells you. That is how God communicates with the believers.
2007-04-12 05:03:31 · answer #9 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe this will help I think it is saying we need God's spirit to fullt know his truth
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.14The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
16"For who has known the mind of the Lord
that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
2007-04-12 04:57:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋