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Sun, 10 March 2013 22:24

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Dragon wrote on Thu, 31 January 2013 09:46

When discussing Home Teaching on this forum, it was suggested assignments should not be necessary if we were all righteous enough to live every moment by the direction of the Holy Ghost. My response was to say this would lead a person to become a 'slave to the Holy Ghost'. So what does this mean?
I mean when you stop making your own decisions and turn at every moment to the Holy Ghost, then you have become a being who is acted upon rather than one who is acting. Agency means making a choice and seeing it through, then accepting the consequences. If every moment of our lives can be dictated by another entity, be it another man, a prophet, a spouse, a demon, an angel, or even the Holy Ghost, then we would take no responsibility for our actions because we would only be doing what we are told.

I see where you are coming from Dragon, and I would agree with you that we need to learn self reliance. But I know one thing that you may not or that you may not have taken into consideration. And I can see that in some threads we have talked about Abraham offering Issac and what would happen if Abraham defied God like Moses did. I also agree that we should not make ourselves slaves to anyone.

And, I know what you are talking about when people trying to do good, will pray about every little thing looking for an "Outside" approval from someone else to tell them what to do thereby shutting their own mind and spirit off to become a slave to God or some being outside of them.

I think I know where you are coming from, and I agree with all these points and the problems associated with them. But, I know and take into consideration one thing that negates all these concerns when it comes to the Holy Ghost. I know who the Holy Ghost is.

I know this is discussed in another thread, but I am not sure anyone nailed it down yet. Here is a quick overview of who the Holy Ghost is:

When we were spirits, we progressed as far as a spirit was able to progress. We could not progress further without getting bodies and learning to enjoy and overcome the experiences of the physical plain.

How far can a spirit progress?
A spirit can progress to being a God. For example, Jehovah was the pre-mortal Jesus and was a God. We also know that the Holy Ghost is a God and is Currently referred to as a Spirit.

So, we know that A)we can become Gods as spirits and that B)we progressed as far as we could in the spirit world without a body.
A + B = C)We were Gods before we were born as mortals with bodies.

Our spirit's ARE Gods. Our bodies are temples of our Spirits or God.
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1 Corinthians 3:16 - Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

There are 3 members of the God head, and of the 3 members we are told that we can be forgiven for blaspheme against all but one, the Holy Ghost. Why is that? We are told in the next verse;

Quote:

1 Corinthians 3:17 - If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Our spirit/God has come to earth to get a body. Not just a body, but one that it can use as an eternal and glorified being. We are told to subject our bodies to our spirit/God. Our body has a mind of its own called the natural man, conscious mind or ego. The ego doesn't realize that there is a spirit/God/subconscious that is far more powerful and that determines what happens to us in our lives. Our spirit IS our God. It IS us as well.

Being in subjection to the Holy Ghost is being in subjection to yourself or the God that gives you life. The God whose temple you are and the God who decides whether or not you/your body/ego will make a good eternal partner.

And in our lives, the Holy Ghost is more important than Heavenly Father and Christ combined. We can blaspheme God the Father and God the son, but if we Blaspheme God the Holy Ghost, who is the spirit that inhabits our bodies, or in other words US, then we are truly damned and cannot be forgive in this world or the world to come.

Receiving the Holy Ghost is to recognize and accept the influence of the Spirit in you. Carnal man/ego goes around living life as if the spirit/Holy Ghost/God doesn't exist in them. When we pray, we receive answers from our spirit. It tells us all things what we should do because it is us. It is our "Jiminy Cricket". When we receive the Holy Ghost, we are receiving our own spirit into our lives to guide us and teach us and help us. We are accepting our own link to the eternal. The Holy Ghost is our very own personal God that knows us because it is us.

Above all, to thine own self be true! So, following the Holy Ghost is following your "Higher Self" or your own conscience.

Quote:

Isaiah 41:23
23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.

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Psalms 82:6
6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

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John 10:34
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

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		How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: Dragon on Thu, 31 January 2013 09:46
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: Daryl on Fri, 01 February 2013 05:15
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: Ashleyd on Sun, 03 February 2013 01:32
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: JulesGP on Sun, 03 February 2013 02:38
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: JulesGP on Tue, 05 February 2013 13:00
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: Dragon on Wed, 06 February 2013 07:51
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: Ashleyd on Wed, 06 February 2013 14:05
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: Dragon on Wed, 06 February 2013 21:55
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: JulesGP on Sat, 09 February 2013 16:10
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: Kronos369 on Mon, 11 February 2013 17:47
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: Called to Serve on Mon, 11 February 2013 22:53
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: Seeker on Sun, 10 March 2013 22:24
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: JulesGP on Sun, 10 March 2013 23:44
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: SingleToHisGlory on Mon, 11 March 2013 22:14
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: Seeker on Tue, 12 March 2013 16:32
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: SingleToHisGlory on Tue, 12 March 2013 17:46
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: Seeker on Tue, 12 March 2013 23:19
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: SingleToHisGlory on Wed, 13 March 2013 10:59
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: Dragon on Sat, 23 March 2013 22:03
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: SingleToHisGlory on Mon, 25 March 2013 14:47
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: Called to Serve on Thu, 28 March 2013 11:48
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: Elejian on Sat, 10 August 2013 14:34
		Re: How can one be a slave to the Holy Ghost? Is that a bad thing? By: Elejian on Mon, 26 August 2013 21:50

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