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**cefunonge** · 07-12-2012, 05:14 AM

Yes people sometimes reject what the Holy Spirit is telling them. But you don't need the Holy Spirit to tell you that slavery is wrong unless you don't have a conscience. And if you don't have a conscience then you won't listen to the Holy Spirit anyway. I think that the Holy Spirit is more concerned with spiritual matters. 1 John 5:19 says that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. This was written after Jesus was crucified. I don't see anything in the Bible that says that it's different today. It isn't, and it won't be until the second advent. The fact that slavery is illegal now isn't a spiritual matter.

Slavery is against God's will. The Spirit doesn't just inform us on personal spiritual matters. I think describing it that way would shock Jesus to the core. The Spirit guides us on what is right and what is wrong. That means more than simply personal spiritual matters, but also injustices in our world. Jesus called out more than few injustices going on in 1st Century Palestine among the Jewish religious leaders and the Roman occupiers.

07-12-2012, 05:14 AM	#20
cefunonge Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 322 Senior Member	Yes people sometimes reject what the Holy Spirit is telling them. But you don't need the Holy Spirit to tell you that slavery is wrong unless you don't have a conscience. And if you don't have a conscience then you won't listen to the Holy Spirit anyway. I think that the Holy Spirit is more concerned with spiritual matters. 1 John 5:19 says that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. This was written after Jesus was crucified. I don't see anything in the Bible that says that it's different today. It isn't, and it won't be until the second advent. The fact that slavery is illegal now isn't a spiritual matter. Slavery is against God's will. The Spirit doesn't just inform us on personal spiritual matters. I think describing it that way would shock Jesus to the core. The Spirit guides us on what is right and what is wrong. That means more than simply personal spiritual matters, but also injustices in our world. Jesus called out more than few injustices going on in 1st Century Palestine among the Jewish religious leaders and the Roman occupiers.
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