Who can explain following:

jaywill That is all well and good except there are none here that are of divine life and can thus speak intelligently of it. Should according to what authority? And to whom do we speak to learn of this authority? You perhaps? Again, you speak as though you were somehow privy to information no one else is? Why is that? More of the same. Good thing we have your word to take for it. Otherwise we might fall into the trap of gullibility eh?

jaywill How do we know this to be the case? Perhaps it is just self-deception on your part.What makes you any more capable of understanding that a person who has not received such? So you are saying you have limited divine life then? How is this different than simple contemplation the character of which grows with the exercise of such contemplation? You think on such things from the point of view of having received Christ.This means that you filter such through pre-conceived notions of what is your interpretation of what a "born- again" person should be able to do.
I have met born again Christians who cannot agree on anything within the context of the Bible, yet both have divine understanding so how come they cannot agree on these matters? I am hardly despairing,merely trying to understand the psyche of those who claim to have insight of a divine nature. If you are divinely cognizant as you claim why would you need a human authority to learn from.? How would you know they are more mature than yourself? Again you claim divine life within yet you also limit this divine life. Bible study is one thing it is quite another to make claims of divinty that do not make sense on the face of things.If your research is blinded through self-deception then neither your present nor your subsequent investigation will be worthwhile at all since you will not only have preconceptions of the bible you will also defer to authority of other people you assume to be more enlightened than yourself. Here we run into difficulty since the person Christ is not well established as an actual historical figure and if the entire stretch of your discourse is centered around a figure that is vague and of questionable authenticity then there is much you must question about yourself I think. Not elitism but self deception perhaps.

jaywill Do not trust people who hallucinate when they say they had visions since ,in all likelihood, it is a result of problems in the brain?

jaywill Not in the least. Sin is a human asserted definition for those actions and attitudes that a given society adheres to as a matter of maintaining order among its members. The "sins" I have participated in have had just the opposite effect upon me. They have allowed me to deeply question my actions and to seek to live my life in ways that prevent such events from recurring.
Life does not come with a set of instructions and all the writings of men placing ideas on paper as a means of delineating ideals of behavior and respect for society are opinions based on their lives and experiences. They have value or not for others as dependent upon the circumstances that we face individually and our own capacities and inclinations.
It is reasoning that allowed me to understand that the world has far more levels of depth than religious texts could ever hope to approach and that such volumes as produced by men and their beliefs are seldom realistic and,indeed , detrimental in my view. Again you judge me based upon your beliefs and not upon understanding. I neither need nor require a God to save me and I operate just fine in the world amongst friends and family with no supernatural beliefs whatever. I live my life content in the understanding that it is temporary and my place in it will one day be over.
To that end I aim to allow others to enjoy life and to help where I can. I will teach my children to enjoy the precious moments they have and to reason logically and to always question the world about them.