- Let'me learn. - 3 Updates
- What is the spirit nature? - 1 Update
| woodbrian77@gmail.com: Jul 09 06:23PM -0700 > been 'make_uniqueptr' that would have been a little better. > At any rate, this new form looks promising to me. A number > of things from C++ 2011 have largely displaced older forms. Due to refactoring of my code, support for class template argument deduction has decreased on my wish list -- Christmas in July. I still want string_view backported to C++ 2011 compilers. I'd also like this: auto& request= pendingRequests.emplace_back(::std::unique_ptr<cmw_request>()); -- emplace_back returning a reference to the inserted item -- to be backported to 2011 compilers. Brian Ebenezer Enterprises http://webEbenezer.net |
| Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>: Jul 10 04:46PM +1200 > pendingRequests.emplace_back(::std::unique_ptr<cmw_request>()); > -- emplace_back returning a reference to the inserted item -- to be > backported to 2011 compilers. Why on Earth would anyone want to do that? -- Ian |
| woodbrian77@gmail.com: Jul 10 07:24AM -0700 On Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 11:46:59 PM UTC-5, Ian Collins wrote: > > -- emplace_back returning a reference to the inserted item -- to be > > backported to 2011 compilers. > Why on Earth would anyone want to do that? C++ 2011 was late and, when it did arrive, it was immature. Ideally, string_view would have been a part of C++ 2011 or earlier. I make requests and let compiler vendors decide. Brian Ebenezer Enterprises http://webEbenezer.net |
| "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com>: Jul 10 05:40AM -0700 I wrote this reply to someone yesterday, and I wanted to share it here with you because many people struggle with this concept of the spirit nature since it doesn't correlate to our natural nature. The spirit nature is something each of us can possess. It comes to us automatically when we have our sin taken away, because in that very moment we are made righteous again in God's sight, and we are no longer under condemnation for sin. This person was convinced the Bible could not be accurate because of a game played in college whereby everyone in the class sat in a circle, and they had to whisper to the person to their left a message that was given them by the teacher. It went from person to person around the class and when the final message was received back at the person it started from, it had been contorted, distorted, changed. The person concluded the Bible must be the same way because man is fallible, makes mistakes, has purposefully hurtful agendas at times, etc. This response clarifies how it is God was able to 1) give His word to man in the first place, 2) keep His word properly in tact, and most importantly 3) able to guide us today in this war-torn world filled with hate and violence against the things of God. It is from within, through the spirit, and direct guidance by God's Holy Spirit, which keeps us on the strait-and-narrow path to His eternal Kingdom in Heaven, called the paradise of God. -----[ Begin ]----- Name wrote: [the bible is a book written by man... or many men] It's natural to think that. Many men did write it over centuries. But there's another aspect (unknown to our natural flesh) which is also at work. Man is a three-fold being made in the image and likeness of God. Just as God is God the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, so are we soul, body, spirit. When God made Adam and Eve, they were both complete: soul, body, spirit. They were eternal beings, and they had both physical life and spiritual life in addition to their soul. When they disobeyed God and ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, sin entered in and took their life. They did not die naturally. The Bible records Adam lived to age 930, but they did die spiritually. This spiritually-dead-in-sin condition is passed down generation to generation. As such, man's history is filled with an apparent contradiction. The Bible records many supernatural things, and has people in Israel telling others they were prophets of God and they espoused things which they claimed were from God, many of which we find in the Bible. We also have New Testament authors recording more supernatural things, and more miracles, and of course Jesus being God in the flesh, here on Earth, the Savior of the world! It's lunacy, right? It seems that way because our natural flesh has certain senses, and supernatural things are, by definition, above or outside the realm of the natural. Our natural flesh can't accept supernatural things, only natural things. Enter the spirit nature. God is spirit, and when Jesus came here as a man, He wasn't just flesh. Inside the flesh, driving it, making it animate, "quickening" the flesh as the Bible calls it, was God's own Holy Spirit. It was by that power, that authority, that invisible nature, that the supernatural things manifested. It wasn't done by potions or hocus pocus or mystical forces, but by something real, just impossible for our flesh to reconcile, and invisible to our natural eyes. Jesus came here as a man so He could be born under our laws, so He could be before God literally as one of us. In so doing, and be- cause He was God, He was able to live a sin free life and in the end transfer the sin (of all who come to Him asking forgiveness) away to Himself, so those who believe and ask forgiveness are made sin free before God. This transaction immediately makes us alive again spiritually, and the essence of our being changes in that selfsame instant, as we no longer possess only natural senses and inputs, but now possess also spiritual inputs. We are able to then hear and understand / discern God's Holy Spirit, but also the enemy spirit at work in this world. We can then see how the spirit augments us. Our natural body is moved by natural drives, but the born again spirit asserts itself as well, and the things we do, speak, teach, and occupy our time with notable change (notable to ourselves, and others). So it can be seen how it was God's own Holy Spirit who reached into man's natural body, and moved him from within, inspiring and guiding him to write His (God's) words down here in this world. And similarly, it was God's own Holy Spirit which also kept His words from corruption over the centuries. Oh there are corrupt versions around, but not all of them are corrupt. God has always kept His written word secure here in this world so that we who seek the true truth and follow Him have something tangible to go to, which is both natural and spiritual, to corroborate our spiritual guidance from within, so we aren't swept away by evil spirits guiding us to do false things. And I'll be honest, Satan is shrewd. He knows how to trick people into doing wrong things. Bottom line: God wrote the Bible through men. He wrote the words for the people alive at that time, for later generations, and for us today. There are layers and layers of understanding which the Holy Spirit leads us to in ongoing study because, just like if you hired a yoga instructor or life coach to follow you around 24/7 so that they're always there to guide you, so God's Holy Spirit comes to dwell within us spiritually, so that as we do things He's there guiding us, just like the hired natural person would be. And just like the growing child is able to understand at age 10 things thery couldn't at age 5, and things at 15 they couldn't at 10, so it is with the maturing Christian in his/her spiritual walk. Jesus makes all this possible by what He did at the cross. He went there without sin of His own. He was condemned to die falsely. In fact, He didn't have to die. He was justified in rightness and guiltlessness before God, such that He would've been justified in upon legions of angels to come and rescue Him. He could've commanded His flesh be healed, and those who wrongly accused Him could've been rounded up and dealt with. But He didn't do those things. He chose to remain on the cross, innocent, willing to suffer the guilt and shame in people's eyes, to be humiliated. Why? For you, Name. For me. For your children, your parents, neighbors, the drug addicts down the road, the ... [insert person or people group here]. Jesus stayed on the cross innocent so that our guilt could be supernaturally transfered to Himself, so that when He died in the body, all our sin would die with Him. It requires God giving someone an internal tweak for them to receive this (John 6:44), without which only the natural under- standing will be present, and it will seem like complete foolish- ness. Only you will know truly within if God has given you under- standing here. If He has, you are fortunate. You are one who is being saved. -----[ Begin ]----- If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. You can send me private email if you feel more comfortable. Thank you, Rick C. Hodgin |
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