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2007-08-15 00:25:25 · 17 answers · asked by firelight 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish things behind me" ( I Corinthians 13:11).
Looking at the nature of a child ... The smaller the child, the more self-centered it tends to be. A small baby thinks only of its own needs, comfort and wants. It sees the universe as revolving around itself. As the child grows, its awareness of things, people and needs outside of itself is heightened. Instead of seeing all toys as its own, it eventually learns that some toys belong to other children. Gradually, incrementally, the child's world opens up. As it matures, it moves progressively outside of itself into the larger world of others.
The key indicator of spiritual maturity is one's ability to love in a godly way. To be spiritually mature is to be like God. If we actively seek the love as God loves, other aspects of spiritual maturity will fall into place.
"Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love " ( I John 4:8).
2007-08-15 00:45:30 · answer #1 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A ten-year-old single malt whisky from the depths of the Scottish Highlands would come close, I think.
Disregarding that, however, if I must, both a knowledge, and the acceptance of the self as a spiritual being. And that takes some time - sometimes several lives - to realize.
2007-08-15 00:35:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'd say spiritual maturity is spiritual self-sufficiency. The ability to follow spiritual paths of your own choosing without being concerned with the paths others choose.
2007-08-15 00:33:51 · answer #3 · answered by Jack P 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
When a person is accepting of their own spirituality and do not care what others think and only try to help those around them and not convert them.
BB
2007-08-15 00:37:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A mark of true christian maturity is: when a believer trust more of his life to Christ. Every single detail of his life.
If you have an intimate relationship with Christ of course you would not neglect your personal devotion, prayers and Bible reading...
2007-08-15 00:37:04 · answer #5 · answered by Mikey 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Basically, being a doer of the Word and becoming more like Jesus.
Paul wrote in Ephesians 4:13:
till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
2007-08-15 00:33:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I would say it is when you are able to accept Christ and the Father without reservation and have prepared yourself to live in paradise on earth. I believe that now is the time of the end of the world as we know it, and the re-creation. In any event, accepting Christ as your personal Savior alone equates to Spiritual maturity.
2007-08-15 00:31:03 · answer #7 · answered by Son of David 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
When you have developed a "religion" for living your own life on your own terms and no God exists to act as a crutch to support you.
2007-08-15 00:35:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The complete absence of any fun in one's beliefs...
Kinda like psychological maturity somehow implies that you can't scream in the supermarket or dance around lamp-posts.
Maturity is overrated.
For more details, watch me tomorrow.
Tomorrow is Thor's day.... so I will be believing strongly in the Norse Pantheon.... because I feel like it.
So there.
Nyah.
2007-08-15 00:32:10 · answer #9 · answered by Lucid Interrogator 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The ability to believe in your own path, while accepting the paths of others.
The ability to expand your knowledge base without fear.
2007-08-15 00:34:46 · answer #10 · answered by taliswoman 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋