What are some circumstances when NOT believing what you hear is a good thing?

Anything that goes against Scripture whatsoever circumstances. Circumstances should never dictate any believing or not. When a congregation shows up in disorder and "wild" behavior you just do not believe their pastor and leave.

When the doctor gives someone a bad report we do not have to receive but come home and get our church and friends praying that God will take what the devil thought for evil against us. The word of God tells us in 1 Peter 2:24 that Jesus already bore our sins and sicknesses and by His stripes we were healed 2,000 yrs ago so we are already healed but the devil is trying to convince us otherwise by putting false symptoms on our bodies.

That is the time to stand against it by using the word of God, speaking the word of God out loud so our ears hear the scriptures as well as Satan hears that we have knowledge that will make us healed if we can back him down and force him to take his lying symptoms back. At which point we will be completely healed and whole and walking in divine healing.

Sometimes it takes a bit of time to get the demons of sickness to go but Go they must when we use the name of Jesus and the blood and the demons whine and cower and do not want to go but in the end they go and we send them back to where Jesus told them to go.

(((Mister Kelly))) great question !!!

There are tons of circumstances where merely accepting what we hear as automatic fact is not a good thing. The Bible has much to say about faith. Yet nowhere does it encourage us to be gullible or naive. Nor does it condone mental laziness. On the contrary, it labels people who put faith in every word they hear as inexperienced, even foolish. (Proverbs 14:15, 18) Really, how foolish it would be for us to accept an idea as true without checking the facts! That would be like covering our eyes and trying to cross a busy street just because someone tells us to do it.

Rather than encouraging blind faith, the Bible urges us to keep our figurative eyes open so that we are not deceived. (Matthew 16:6) We keep our eyes open by using our “power of reason.” (Romans 12:1) The Bible trains us to reason on evidence and reach sound conclusions that are based on facts. Consider some examples from the writings of the apostle Paul.

When Paul wrote to those in the congregation in Rome, he did not want them to believe in God just because he told them to. Rather, he encouraged them to consider the evidence that God is real. He wrote: “His [God’s] invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they [those who deny God’s authority] are inexcusable.” (Romans 1:20) Paul used a similar line of reasoning when writing his letter to the Hebrews. “Of course, every house is constructed by someone,” he said, “but he that constructed all things is God.” (Hebrews 3:4) In a letter to Christians living in the city of Thessalonica, Paul encouraged them to be selective in what they believed. He wanted them to “make sure of all things.”—1 Thessalonians 5:21.

Religious faith that is not built on sound evidence can become a crutch, one that causes a person to be misled and suffer harm. Concerning some religious people in his day, Paul wrote: “I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God; but not according to accurate knowledge.” (Romans 10:2) How vital it is, then, that we follow Paul’s advice to the Roman congregation! He wrote: “Be transformed by making your mind over, that you may prove to yourselves the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” (Romans 12:2) Faith based on accurate knowledge of God becomes, not a crutch, but a “large shield” that protects us from emotional and spiritual harm.—Ephesians 6:16.

I'm looking for answers having to do with "test the Spirits" or knowing the Adonai of the Old Testament; consistency with truth.

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