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Growing up spiritually constantly reveals mistakes made from ignorance. Revelations affect one’s existing knowledge. If there is no spiritual maturing process going on, acquired knowledge is mainly used for regurgitation and/or is kept covert for gaining power. It doesn’t change the being of an individual. He may think he possesses an education, but in reality it’s him who is being possessed (controlled) by it.

When there is a spiritual maturing process happening, the one whom it’s happening to cannot remain unchanged. Knowledge begins to have a metamorphic effect if the person will take hold of it for thinking how to use it for God’s will being done through him. One’s conscience is limited by the knowledge he has of the bible. The less knowledge a saved person has of the bible, the more other knowledge dangerously puffs up his pride.

In the minds of false Christians, knowledge of the bible can be a weapon of attack used on non-believers. They act like god and think it’s their job to change others to be like them.

A true Christian minds his own business and knows that the things to ‘fix’ are not external.¹ Good works (e.g., feeding the hungry) and bad works (e.g., lying) are not always dependable indicators of whether or not someone is saved, because what is seen can be temporary and/or manipulated.

When God tells us we can know others by their fruit, He is referring a person’s overall disposition. We all have different moods that change like the weather, but each of us have characters that remain generally consistent. We live with our own unique and delicate ecosystem. Some are barren like a dry desert where life isn’t as easy to spot. Others are like a lush rain forest that’s noisy with life.

Anybody can work on looking like a good person to others. That’s something controllable. If it wasn’t so, we wouldn’t have social services, therapy groups, psychologists, etc. What we can’t control is what’s inside the heart. We’re all born in sin. That’s why there is such a high failure rate to permanently rehabilitate criminals, addicts, etc. Just because one addiction may end (e.g., alcohol) does not mean it couldn’t have been replaced by another dependency (e.g., AA).

Only when the dependency becomes solely upon God is there a successful change to the being of an individual.

An example how education has become a god is when people refuse to accept others the way they are and think that others should be like them. Non-Christians complain about Christians proselytizing, but yet they can’t see how they’re doing the same thing by acting like the world would be a better place without Christians. Neurotypicals want to change Aspies, but yet they can’t see how much of their traits annoy Aspies.

The definition of worship is to serve. If education wasn’t worshipped, people would stop being servants to it. Knowledge per se isn’t bad. It becomes corrupt in the minds of those whose hearts are proud.

I’m beginning to suspect it’s because of pride that I was trying so hard to keep up with editing my posts whenever I noticed improvements were in order. A voracious thinker is bound to encounter a lot more changes in perception of theories than someone who doesn’t analyze material to the same level of intensity, especially when under the influence of the Holy Spirit.

A wise man admits being capable of making mistakes, but it’s foolish to be fanatically trying to be flawless to please those who think they’re already flawless.

The fruit of fool who thinks he knows himself is seen by how he looks down upon others as being inferior to himself. No matter how educated or how much knowledge any of us hold, we’re all idiots in the eyes of our creator. Thinking that we can compare ourselves to others only proves how little we know.

I’m not going to jump from the frying pan of analyzing myself into the fire of someone else analyzing me. I hope I’ve been on the heat of God’s flames long enough to finally evaporate sufficiently to end a long-time bad habit.

¹In a “Christianized” country like America where bibles, the internet, radio, television, telephone, and printed media abound as resources for those who seek how to become saved, the Christian’s business is to be ready to give an answer to those who seek the gospel. In the regions of the world where the the gospel has not yet been preached (i.e., heard or known about), Christians are to spread the word. When it comes to a place where either could be the case (as is the world wide web), Christians should both preach the word and be ready to give an answer to those who genuinely seek God. Giving an answer doesn’t mean arguing. It means guiding others to Christ. God draws His elect towards Him. Those who aren’t attracted to what Christians have online don’t have to read it, but they also have no right to deny others from reading it who may want to.

A Christian’s business is to be working on ‘fixing’ his internal sins. Those are the hidden abominations. Examples are: envy, deceit, backbiting, coveting, maliciousness, fornication, pride, gossiping, implacability, breaking promises, being spiteful, unmerciful, etc.

I don’t know whether to laugh, be angry, or alternate between both, when I read such absurd statements about Aspergians as this one:

“Limits one’s self with pursued interests without thinking of other things that can be explored.”

I can just picture a shrink with her/his pen in hand silently writing down this note on a pad while listening to an aspie respond to her/his question, “So Joe, what things do you find interesting?” If I was Joe in that situation, I’d be tempted to say, “I find it interesting that you actually believe you can know what I don’t think about based upon what I tell you I do think about, but you probably can’t realize I’ve already decoded your pattern of analysis a long time ago and I can’t tell you that because then you’ll write down more derogatory notes about me like:

Very verbal, blunt.
Sarcastic, negative, emotionally numb, very criticizing.
Verbalizing strongly on likes and dislikes.
No interest in tasks that doesn’t draw personal interest.
Almost always totally serious.
Quick tempered.
Having a different way of playing games with others, and is sometimes taken the wrong way.
Does things without thinking them out well first, or considering consequences.
Very low assertiveness in topics not interested in.”

Of course the doctor isn’t going to share her/his ‘insights’ with her/his patient, but yet s/he wants everything s/he can pump out from her/his client. The more words s/he hears, the more ammunition s/he can have for milking her/his client’s insurance company. If the client either has no insurance and/or doesn’t own much, then that client gets a shorter ‘to do’ list (like figure out a way to keep the doc financially fed, then call again). God help us if we all have mandatory health insurance! If (or when) that happens, walking into a psych’s office will be like a fly landing on a Dionaea Muscipula (Venus Flytrap)! . . . or like someone with marital problems walking into a lawyer’s office! (Please, those out there who might take offense to what I’m saying — my words here are only meant for those who deserve the truth; you’re excused if you think so.)

Getting back to the limits one’s self with pursued interests without thinking of other things that can be explored . . . there are several factors involved here. For one, everybody has to limit her/him-self because the alternative is impossible. For another thing, it’s impossible for anyone to know what another person has thought about or has not considered. On top of that, it’s no one else’s business to decide how much time and/or energy another person invests into the things that interest him. It’s common knowledge that the length of time and the variety of interests that aspies have among their spectrum change unpredictably.

I can’t think of any person I know who I couldn’t say about her or him that s/he limits her/his-self with pursued interests without thinking of other things that can be explored. I would choose to not say that though because I’d rather live by the Golden Rule rather than the $Green$ Rule.