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Does Experience Trump Scripture in Authority?
There's a few folks over the years that I've encountered who have testified to experiences that they hold much faith in. And I do believe experience is big in our walk with God. However, when asked for Scriptures to back up the experience, many times they can come back with something to the effect of, "I know what I experienced, and that's all I need.." or "I depend on the Holy Ghost and that's enough."
So some questions here.....
1 - Does Experience have equal or even greater authority in your life than Scripture?
2 - Do you ever think the Holy Ghost would direct/lead in a way that you couldn't provide Scripture to back it up?
3 - If the experience isn't able to backed up by Scripture, shouldn't it be lowered in it's value?
4 - Is there any higher authority in your life than the Word of God? Is that not the ruler by which all other things in our walk with God are to be measured for authenticity, truth, and dependance?
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