A stumbling block or a stepping-stone?
DON'T THINK IN THE NATURAL--- Jesus went back to the Father and sent the Holy Ghost to lead us into righteousness and truth. More attention needs to be made to the Holy Spirit which is the dispensation in which we are in. Most of our so-called Christians; preach, talk, and sing about Jesus. We celebrate Christmas, Easter, and Good Friday.; Most religious stories are about Jesus. Even his very words are in red print so to draw attention to them. The New Testament was written it seems, by those who had seen him and touched him, so they drew from their experiences of the times for their writings and even though, the Holy Ghost over shadowed them, their writings where colored by their own intellect. (The holy Ghost overshadows many of us at times, but that dosen’t save us from sin: for we are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God: meaning we lean to our own understandings.) It does not take anything away from Jesus for us to recognize things as they are. (which is that this is the Holy Ghost Dispensation) Jesus was our elder brother, he was a human man, tempted like as we, but one who did the will of God in all things. He is gone from our sight and our touch. He said he would send the Holy Ghost to become a part of us and to lead us into all Truth, into the spiritual realm.
It is hard for us to comprehend a spirit even tho we are a spirit. Is this a stumbling block or a stepping stone? It all depends on each one of us ? Do we have a spirit to learn of the spirit of God for understanding, or are we self sufficient in our own minds and draw from what seems right in our own eyes. Being satisfied with religion as it has been taught for years, leaves us floundering around in the workings of our minds, never learning of God ! Only as we will let religion go-- can we experience and learn of Salvation ! which comes by the Holy Ghost, The spirit of God.