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Re: Worship Casualties: Who speaks for the injured
I definitely believe that sometimes people can be so overcome by the power of God that they can be "slain" in the spirit, more in the sense of feeling physically weak from the experience. The "trance-like" state that may ensue in some situations may be more rare, IMO, but we do read of something like that happening to John. "And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. And He laid His right hand upon me, saying unto me, fear not; I am the first and the last" (Rev. 1:17)
I also thought of Saul being struck down from his horse/camel/whatever, and so I don't doubt that people can *collapse* under the power of God. Do I believe in people like Benny Hinn? No way--I definitely think the majority of those events are the result of psychological power, not the power of God. Would I deny every personal experience as being real? No--if someone felt it was real, then it was real for them.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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