What does Bible say about imagination?

What does Bible say about imagination?

You have the power, given to you by God, to control your thoughts and imagination. God designed you that way on purpose! Philippians 4: 8-9 (The Message Bible) says this about what we are to think about and imagine.

What are vain imaginings?

Pride is predicated on a vain imagination, imagining that one’s own worth, satisfaction, and contentment can be derived by comparing oneself to other “‍lesser‍” beings—or, more simply, imagining that more = good, an equation lacking in eternal truth.

What does it mean to be called vain?

1 : having or showing undue or excessive pride in one’s appearance or achievements : conceited. 2 : marked by futility or ineffectualness : unsuccessful, useless vain efforts to escape. 3 : having no real value : idle, worthless vain pretensions.

What does the Bible say about pulling down strongholds?

Isaiah 25:11 says, God will bring down their pride despite the cleverness of their hands. He will bring down your high fortified walls and lay them low; he will bring them down to the ground, to the very dust.

What does Bible say about foreigners?

“When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong him. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Lev. 19:33-34).

How do you explain imagination?

Imagination

1. Imagination is the ability to produce and simulate novel objects, sensations, and ideas in the mind without any immediate input of the senses.
2. Imagination is a cognitive process used in mental functioning and sometimes used in conjunction with psychological imagery.

What is false imagination?

When imagining a false event, people generate information about the event that is often stored in their memory. Later, they might remember the content of the memory but not its source and mistakenly attribute the recalled information to a real experience.

How does proactive interference work?

Proactive interference (pro=forward) occurs when you cannot learn a new task because of an old task that had been learnt. When what we already know interferes with what we are currently learning – where old memories disrupt new memories. Also new learning can sometimes cause confusion with previous learning.