THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BEING SPIRITUAL AND BEING SCRIPTURAL

THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BEING SPIRITUAL AND BEING SCRIPTURAL

For a long time now, being spiritual (spirituality) is measured by being scriptural (scripturality), quite a lot of folks are scriptural, thinking they are highly spiritual, but unknown to them, even though being scriptural can lead to spirituality, it is also possible to be scriptural and not be spiritual.

From the time of Jesus Christ till now, the world has continued to witness scriptural folks, who have no clue what it means to be spiritual.

Sometimes ago, I told someone he was only being scriptural and had no clue what it means to be spiritual. He got annoyed and steered up argument, accusing me of being an “I too know”, so I asked him what spirituality is, expectedly, this guy, who could quote the scriptures from Genesis to Revelation and wouldn’t say anything without referring to the scriptures had no clue.

I have said it before and I am saying it again that “if you believe all the scriptures are inspired by God and must not be questioned, it is a testimony that you don’t know God.” I don’t mean all the scriptures are not inspired by God, and the scriptures up there are not limited to the Bible only. However, it is only gullibility, not faith that makes anyone to believe all the scriptures are inspired by God and must not be questioned.

Someone once quoted a scripture written by Paul, to prove me wrong in one of my lectures and I asked her who wrote the scripture, she had no clue until someone helped her out. I proceeded and asked her, on whose spirit Paul was writing, she said it was on God’s spirit; and then I asked her, how she knew it, she said, “Paul would not have written anything against God,” how did she know Paul was not writing from his own spirit and not God’s spirit? What’s her proof?

She is one of those folks that believe everything written in the Bible was inspired by God and like I said one of my write-ups, “there is no folly as holy as that.”

Being scriptural; knowing all the scriptures and being able to quote them off hand, does  not guarantee spirituality, in fact you can have all that, speak in tongues, interpret tongues and still be spiritually shallow. In one of my most talked about essays titled “SEX; THE SACRED NONSENSE”, I defined spirituality as: “conformity to a higher deity; a spirit believed to be higher than people, whom they depend on for existence.” However, it could also be a conformity to ones’ spirit, lower spirits or even inanimate, whom they believe are higher than them and should be worshiped.

Scripturality: being scriptural is, knowing and believing everything in the scriptures.

Since the scriptures are written to lead people to the higher deity, whom they depend on for existence, a lot of folks think knowing them is the only way to attain valid spirituality, , but that could just be the beginning.

However, judging by the definition of Spirituality, we will see that being spiritual does not always mean Godliness, depending of the type of spirit one is conformed to.

I stand never to be corrected, to say that the only valid form of spirituality is the one that makes people conform to God, “Jehovah”, known as “Yahweh”, “I AM” and “Allah” to the Muslims. He is the only God that deserves our conformity, and all theists, regardless of their religion must conform to him to be termed “spiritual”.

Several scriptures are written to this effect, but inability to decipher them with God’s eyes is highly detrimental; it only produces spiritually shallow scriptural folks.

I once said, “If long after I have exited this world, it is said about me that a wise man has gone, it would have been because I chose to know God beyond the prescriptions of any scripture and any religion.”

Does it mean the scriptures are useless? No!

The scriptures play a huge role in knowing God and becoming spiritual in the right order.

I have read the Bible cover to cover more than once, still reading and taking the Quran just as much, I have read about Hinduism, Judaism; Paganism and several other religions, with a peer into their scriptures, and these gives me an edge over the religious folks, who believes God is contained in their so-called holy book. The totality of God is not contained and cannot be contained in any book or scriptures, but it is important to find out first.

Thinking God is limited to your scriptures is the most foolish folly and does not guarantee Godliness.

You would only have succeeded in acting like the Scribes, who knew the scriptures too well to know God. 

How could they have known God and reject his son, Jesus Christ?

How could they have known God and accuse Jesus of evil spirit?

They tried to contain him in their scriptures, thus they rejected Jesus, because his name was not directly mentioned in their scriptures. That’s the worst of all follies.

When I hear people say “the Bible says” or “the Quran says”, it only reveals their gullibility and a possible ignorance of God, perhaps beyond the prescriptions of their scriptures and religion.

These books don’t talk, so how could they have said such things?

If you can not mention the name of the person that wrote a scripture you quote and believe in, and under whose spirit it was written, you will have a very limited knowledge of God and even go against him without knowing it.

Finally, it is good to be scriptural, provided you read the right scripture; it is a very good start, but being limited to it, especially if you have only read your religion’s holy book is highly detrimental.

Sometime ago, I was discussing with a Lady, who had contacted me, wanting clarification on one of my lectures, I told her to go and read Quran from beginning to end, but she told me it was an evil book, that she won’t read it.

How did she know it is an evil book, when she hasn’t read it and won’t read it?

I have also talked to the Muslims, who said the similar thing about the Bible, claiming it has different authors and it’s therefore men’s ideologies put together.

These folks are only brainwashed, they are faith-fools, not faithful, because knowing God takes you to be an ardent learner, not just accepting anything passed down to you in the name of faith.

For instance, if you believe your Bible is the only book through which people can know God, how do you convince Muslim to believe in your Jesus, when he believes his Quran is the only book that leads to God too and won’t read your Bible?

You are guilty of the same ignorance.

It is even written in the Bible: “test all spirits” so what excuse do you have to be ignorant of God?

I tell you the truth, a lot of people will go to hell, not because they don’t belong to a certain religion, but because they have refused to learn.”

God is not limited to any scripture or any holy book, you need to make your findings from the books that are written about him, by not conforming first, then use of Knowledge of Good and Evil to discern them, and then it will be easier to know God.

After finding out and identifying the right book among all that you have read which is the same as letting the scriptures tell you about God. To know God, at least to a reasonable level, you have to let God tell you about the scriptures. Don’t have any opinion, just listen and you will be amazed how well you would have known God.

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