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Originally Posted by RandyWayne
Yes, I am saying I STRONGLY doubt the words of the preacher and his words of knowledge.
Now the story about the $1000 gifts and the resulting "rewards" it totally believable..... but I have major problems with the initial post.
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Originally Posted by RandyWayne
Sorry.... I made the last post minutes before leaving the house and haven't gotten back on the computer till this afternoon. NOW I am leaving for the store for an hour or so and will be back a bit later.
But in the meantime there are MANY gifts of the spirit. One that I have been given (and it is as much of a curse as it is a blessing) is the gift of discernment. It is a gift that ranks right up there with "patience" when it comes to the pain of constantly being tested. Oh, how I would LOVE to be able to fall into emotional extacy over everything that cannot be immediately explained and not have little things like this bother me.... But they do.
When a MAJOR tragedy happens and someone seems to magically "know" what happened, what I find more amazing then the "word of knowledge" is the fact that the guy didn't know about the tragedy ahead of time! Something as big as that impresses me about as much as someone who says "and the next card you pull from the top will be the queen of diamonds" -after being given a minute to rifle through the deck and see what order they were in. But as long as the prediction is made with authority, volume, and in a scary voice, the crowds "oooohhhhhhhssss!" at the wonderment of it all. Most are afraid to even question the validity for fear of committing blasphemy. In fact the one making the statements is protected by a house of logic that precludes the possibility of questioning.
Again, I haven't read any of the posts since making my last and really need to run for a bit but I suspect I am in the extreme minority here, but be that as it may I sense something in Denmark and it ain't pretty.
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Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea
Here is where my friends have missed RW's posting about his claim "divinely" given gift of discernment ...
He is not claiming to have a gift of the Spirit ... as it pertains to the one's Paul delineates to the Corinithians... His gift of discernment, in his opinion, is the God given gift of logic ...we are all given. This is evident in various of his posts ....
Some might think its skepticism.
I can delineate this assertion further if you like.
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perhaps you'd rather explain how you can say he DIDNT say something, he CLEARLY said...
he didnt say "I have a clearly defined sense of LOGIC" - he said "I HAVE A GOD GIVEN GIFT OF DISCERNMENT" AND HE ALSO SAID HE DIDNT BELIEVE THE PREACHER AND HAD DOUBTS ABOUT THE FIRST POST.
now Daniel, put a spin on the mans words...even YOU are smart enough to correctly interpret written word.....
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