#9 But, as it is written,
"What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him"— ....................
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#10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. .........
IS SPIRIT LEAD US TO LIE?
2 Chronicles 18:21
New International Version
"'I will go and be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,' he said. "'You will succeed in enticing him,' said the LORD. 'Go and do it.'
New Living Translation
"And the spirit replied, 'I will go out and inspire all of Ahab's prophets to speak lies.' "'You will succeed,' said the LORD. 'Go ahead and do it.'
1 Kings 22:23
New International Version
"So now the LORD has put a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours. The LORD has decreed disaster for you."
#Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God......
John 4:24 ESV /
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO COMMENTS:TWO COMMENTS ARE COMPLETELY CONTRADICTION TO EACH OTHER :
Creator and Creations:
Islam does not subscribe to the idea that this universe is just an
illusion. It is real, but it is just a creation which has a beginning
and an end. According to the theory that Universe is just an illusion
it does not need a creator behind it. But the Holy Quran says
that it has a Supreme Creator and all the creations are proclaiming
His purity and truth.
``Whatever is in the heavens and on earth
Let it declare the Praises and glory of Allah,
For He is the exalted in might, the wise’’ (Al Hadid:1)
The preposition that the Creator and the creations are one and
the same is another side of the same coin. islam reaffirms that this
theory is absurd and baseless. The essence of Allah is distinct
from His creations. The God Qur’an present is not one whose
entity is spread over in all His creations. If that be so He has to
have limitations partially. But He is beyond all nature ie., His
essence is distinct from nature. But His knowledge and power
contain and include all things. From the feeblest movement in an
atom to the gigantic explosions of stars are within His power and
control. He is beyond time and space limitations. He is beyond
matter and its limitations. His power stretches to all macro and
micro world.
``To Him belongs the dominion of the heaven and the earth
It is He who gives Life and Death and
He has power over all things He is the first and the last
The evident and hidden
And He has full knowledge of all things’’ (Al Hadid: 2,3)
All the creatures in this world are Allah’s creations. Creator
and creations are not the same. Creation is entirely distinct from
the Creator. It is like a painter and his painting. Painter is not the
painting. Painting is not the painter. From any perspective they
are different. Qur’an uses the words `doonillahi (besides Allah)
and `gairullahi’ (other than Allah) whenever creation are mentioned.
It is clear from these words that creations are absolutely
different from God. All creations including man are different from
the essence of Allah according to the Qur’anic teachings.
According to the bible references you mentioned 1king 22:23 and 2chro 18:21. God allowed the spirit to speak lie out of Ahab's prophets mouth not God's chosen prophet note that, to lead him(ahab) to destruction because of his sin.
Secondly, And who are we to say that this is wrong? In the
words of Paul, "Who are you, O man, to talk
back to God?" (Rom. 9:20, NIV). Who are you
and I to judge God's actions wrong? "All the
peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He
does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and
the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his
hand or say to him: What have you done?" (Dan.
4:35, NIV). So you can never quarry God for doing that.
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God has created all the human race as free
moral agents. "Choose ye," has been His policy
from the beginning. "Choose for yourselves this
day whom you will serve." This same choice was
open to Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Saul and
David–and Ahab. In fact, we can read where
Ahab had many opportunities to choose. And
time after time he chose the wrong. Time after
time he made himself God's enemy.
But did God in using Ahab's prophets to
persuade him to go up to battle at Ramoth-
Gilead practice some form of deception? Did He
persuade Ahab against Ahab's will?
The story is found in First Kings 22. It involves
the two divided kingdoms: Israel to the north,
under the leadership of the infamous Ahab; and
Judah, the southern portion, under King
Jehoshaphat. Syria was a strong foreign power
north and east of Israel. Ramoth-Gilead, which
lay east of Israel across the Jordan, was the land
in question at the time: and all the broad fertile
fields of Ramoth-Gilead belonged to Syria. Ahab
could not forget that the prosperous land used
to belong to Israel. The same jealous eye that
coveted Naboth's vineyard coveted Ramoth-
Gilead.
At this point Ahab's decision was made: He
wanted Ramoth-Gilead and he would have it. He
would ask no one's advice; he would go and
fight for it himself. He invited Jehoshaphat to
join him in the venture, and Jehoshaphat
consented. But Jehoshaphat suggested that a
few formalities might be in order: Should not
the King of Israel inquire of the Lord?
Whereupon Ahab gathered four hundred of his
"yes-men prophets" (not true prophets of the
Lord) around him. No problem. They all said
just as they were supposed to, and the King was
flattered.
But Jehoshaphat was not satisfied. "Is there not
a prophet of the Lord here whom we can
inquire (1 Kings 22:7, NIV). Ahab agreed
reluctantly, and sent Micaiah.
The prophecy from the Lord was just what
Ahab had expected -no good. The whole
enterprise was to be ill-fated....it would even
cost Ahab his life. Israel would be left as sheep
without a shepherd.
The determined King Ahab had heard enough.
But Micaiah said more. His message was a
flashback of what had already happened. He
related the details of the prophetic vision the
Lord had given him. He saw in vision the Lord
holding a conference with his "spirits" (or
"angels"–see Ps. 104:4: Heb. 1:7). The subject of
the conference was to decide upon a plan
whereby Ahab would be persuaded to go up to
Ramoth-Gilead and be killed. One angel had the
acceptable idea ...... he would go and "be a lying
spirit in the mouths of all his [Ahab's]
prophets" (l Kings 22:22, NIV). Then Micaiah
concluded his message of doom to the wicked
king: "So now the Lord has put a lying spirit in
the mouths of all these prophets of yours. The
Lord has decreed disaster for you" (l Kings
22:23, NIV).
We know that God is just and righteous in all
His dealings. He never compels any to sin
against their will: for He is "not wanting anyone
to perish, but everyone to come to
repentance" (2 Pet. 3:9, NIV). Constantly He is
imploring that we forsake the evil and love the
good (Amos 5:14-15). This was the principal
message delivered by His prophets: "Wash the
evil from your heart and be saved." "If you had
responded to my rebuke, I would have poured
out my heart to you and made my thoughts
known to you." "Rid yourselves of all the
offenses you have committed .... Repent! Turn
away from all your offenses" (Jer. 4:!4: Prov.
1:23; Ezek. 18:31, 30, NIV).
All are free to choose their own course of action.
And so was Ahab. The Lord was exceedingly
longsuffering to tolerate Ahab's evil devising as
long as He did. In the instance of Ahab's going to
battle at Ramoth-Gilead, the Lord did nothing to
persuade Ahab until Ahab had already, made up
his own mind to do evil. In fact, the whole
scheme was of Ahab's devising. God did not
originate the sin, He simply permitted it: and in
the Hebrew's vocabulary, what God permitted
He was said to do. Therefore we read that the
Lord moved Ahab's prophets to persuade the
wicked king to "attack Ramoth Gilead and be
victorious," thus confirming the king in his
wicked plan. And the Lord, knowing through
divine foreknowledge what the outcome would
be, saw fit to use this permission to advance His
plan, i.e., to allow Ahab to be removed from the
scene of action.
We must remember that God is supreme in the
affairs of men. All things which happen are
things which He allows; therefore He may be
said to do or cause what happens because those
events fit into His eternal purpose. He is
supreme, and when anyone proves to be
steadfastly minded against Him, He has the
right and the power to see that such a one's
opportunity is given to another who may
comply more nearly with the will of the Lord.
He does this "so that the living may know that
the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of
men and gives them to anyone he wishes and sets
over them the lowliest of men" (Dan. 4:17, NIV).
"The authorities that exist have been
established by God"; therefore, it is within the
Lord's rights to depose whom He will, and raise
up whom He will, according to His overall
purpose (Rom. 13:1-4, NIV).
And who are we to say that this is wrong? In the
words of Paul, "Who are you, O man, to talk
back to God?" (Rom. 9:20, NIV). Who are you
and I to judge God's actions wrong? "All the
peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He
does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and
the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his
hand or say to him: What have you done?" (Dan.
4:35, NIV). He is omnipotent, and whole nations
before Him are as "a drop in a bucket," even
"worthless and less than nothing" unless they
voluntarily place themselves under His
authority and become worthy of His protection
and blessing.*******
Note the spirit of God (not worldly spirit) will let us to understand good things of this life and life to come
Read again 1 corinthians 2 " 11 For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 "For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?"But we have the mind of Christ.. Thanks