BBD 07.11.14 Spiritual Orientation Phenomenon (New)
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The Burning
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07.11.14
Spiritual
Orientation Phenomenon
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of
God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned. - 1 Corinthians 2:14 NKJV.
But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are
perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe,
lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God,
should shine on them. - 2 Corinthians 4:3-4 NKJV.
Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My
word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free.” - John 8:31-32 NKJV.
Do you
have “Spatial Orientation Phenomenon?”
Bojana Danilovic from Serbia is one of the very few known to have this odd
condition where everything appears to them upside down from the rest of us.
Bojana is 29-years-old living in Serbia and is a college graduate with a degree
in economics. Nothing is wrong with her intelligence or her eyes, it is just
that her brain interprets the data from her eyes upside down. She has lived
with this all of her life and has been backwards about nearly everything. She
was born feet first, crawled at first going backwards, the same when she first
began to walk, and she wrote backwards too. She watches a TV that is turned
upside down, turns her mobile phone upside down, turns her computer monitor and
keyboard upside down and her newspaper upside down. (NY
Daily News; Daily MailOnline; International Business Times 03.15.13)
Spatial Orientation Phenomenon is a very rare condition that only
a very few in all of history have had, at least that have been documented. I
have discovered another condition that is not so rare and the truth is that
maybe a few billion people suffer from it. What is this condition? I have named
it “Spiritual Orientation Phenomenon.”
Those with this condition (SpOP) see spiritual things backwards and are able to
more easily believe a lie than they are able to believe the spiritual truth.
People with SpOP often suffer from the delusion that everyone goes to Heaven or
that there are multiple ways or paths that one can take to arrive in Heaven.
The Bible is very clear that there is only one way to Heaven and that is
through Jesus as He tells us in John 14:6, “I
am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through
Me.” Other often suffered spiritual
delusions with SpOP are the belief that there is no God, and that if you do
more good things than bad things you will go to Heaven. There are likely
additional SpOP delusions, but all have in common rejection of the spiritual
truths as revealed in the Bible.
The
Bible identifies a person with Spiritual Orientation Phenomenon (SpOP) as
someone who is a “natural man” who has not been “born again (John 3:3).” All those suffering from SpOP
have been “blinded” by the “god of this age (the devil)”
and will perish eternally if they continue in their state of delusion. The cure
for SpOP consists of confronting spiritually delusional people with the truth
because the truth will set them free (John 8:32).
In addition, sharing your own personal testimony of how God freed you through
Jesus can be helpful as we are told in Revelation
12:11, “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their
testimony….” In order to reach the spiritually deluded with the truth,
we must remain spiritually strong ourselves. “But you,
beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy
Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord
Jesus Christ unto eternal life (Jude 1:20-21).” By staying spiritually
strong ourselves, we will then be able to help those suffering from SpOP,
pulling them from the fire of eternal death. “And on
some have compassion, making a distinction; but others save with fear, pulling
them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh (Jude
1:22-23).” We know the truth that someday all will face judgment so as
the apostle Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:11a, “Knowing,
therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men….”
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