YOU FIND A Piece of paper.....I guess it doesn't. I will bow out now.
No need to bow out. It';s just it's hard to follow your thoughts with incomplete sentences. Sounds like good stuff!
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"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
It's perfectly relevant to the thread. Don't let MB bully you.
I told her to continue, too! Don't bow out. lol
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Re: You find a piece of paper....
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Originally Posted by Timmy
It's perfectly relevant to the thread. Don't let MB bully you.
I guess I didn't quite understand the title of the thread until I reconsidered.
Bro. Becton was the preacher in the pulpit that night. My husband and I were sitting on the front pew. He came to the platform on our side, and said Mama and Daddy, that child you have off over there is coming home. I felt in my body, mind and soul, that he was talking to me. This was a Sunday night, At 2:00 AM on Tuesday Morning, I was sleeping soundly and the phone woke me up. It was my son who was off over there calling. His words were, Mama, I'm coming home, could you meet the bus tomorrow afternoon, in Brookhaven? Of course he didn't come right home, and start right to church, because I raised them Baptist, and now we were attending an Apostolic church, which he didn't know much about at the time. But later he came into the church one Wed. night and from then, was baptized in Jesus Name and came for two years, then he stopped. He did clean his life up gave up old habits, married when they were expecting their first child, and after for about a year, he and his wife both came, then quit, and now he has 4 children but still not active in church, but that prophecy was for me, I'm claiming it, and he is coming into the church. In Jesus Name. I HAVE NOT BEEN BULLIED, just short of time at that time.
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Re: You find a piece of paper....
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Originally Posted by Miss Scarlett
I guess I didn't quite understand the title of the thread until I reconsidered.
Bro. Becton was the preacher in the pulpit that night. My husband and I were sitting on the front pew. He came to the platform on our side, and said Mama and Daddy, that child you have off over there is coming home. I felt in my body, mind and soul, that he was talking to me. This was a Sunday night, At 2:00 AM on Tuesday Morning, I was sleeping soundly and the phone woke me up. It was my son who was off over there calling. His words were, Mama, I'm coming home, could you meet the bus tomorrow afternoon, in Brookhaven? Of course he didn't come right home, and start right to church, because I raised them Baptist, and now we were attending an Apostolic church, which he didn't know much about at the time. But later he came into the church one Wed. night and from then, was baptized in Jesus Name and came for two years, then he stopped. He did clean his life up gave up old habits, married when they were expecting their first child, and after for about a year, he and his wife both came, then quit, and now he has 4 children but still not active in church, but that prophecy was for me, I'm claiming it, and he is coming into the church. In Jesus Name. I HAVE NOT BEEN BULLIED, just short of time at that time.
Ah. Now we're talking. You have the ability to feel a witness in your heart. Maybe my problem is I was never given this ability. Or maybe I was! My heart says No to certain things that your hears says Yes to. Who's right?
Well, duh. I am.
I'd not necessarily say that you feel a witness in your "heart". One's heart is merely the center of one's emotions. I'd say that there is a witness within your spirit (where the Holy Spirit resides). There is a difference. When a word from the Spirit enters the soul (mind, will, emotions) through hearing (ear gate) or reading (eye gate) it is also experienced by the spirit (your living essence/breath of life). If you're born again, the Holy Spirit resides within your spirit. The Holy Spirit will bear witness to the word's truth, even if it defies the logic of the soul (mind, will, emotions).
The will of the Spirit can be different from one individual to the next. For example, the Spirit may convict me against owning a firearm. However, the Spirit may not convict my brother about owning a firearm. The Spirit might convict my brother with relation to specific foods or drinks, yet not convict me about specific foods or drinks. The Spirit might convict me not to go to a given place on vacation... yet not convict another brother about going to that specific place. So yes, the Spirit might have differing directives for different individuals.
Now, not only might the Spirit direct different individuals differently, but one hearing from the Spirit must properly interpret the impressions from the Spirit. While the Spirit makes no error in His guidance, one can error in interpreting what the Spirit is saying. So, no message from the Spirit outside of Scripture is absolutely inerrant. Subtle nuances of interpretation may be slightly off and require discernment on behalf of the receiver in order to be properly understood. Interpreting tongues is like this. The impressions that reverberate in one's inner man (spirit) from the Holy Spirit give meaning to the tongues spoken. However, the interpreter's ability to interpret can be limited by their own experience, vocabulary, and confidence. For example, there's the old funny tale about an inexperienced man who was interpreting tongues and the interpretation was as follows...
"Thus saith the LORD, Stay close to me my child, for today's trials and tribulations are many. I don't know if I'm going to make it myself. But if you hold on to me, I will carry you through."
We laugh at this and many say it would prove that the interpretation wasn't from God. However, in truth it may have indeed been from God. It is the individual's interpretation of the Spirit's impression that is off. A seasoned and spiritually astute interpreter might have interpreted it differently. For example, they might have given the interpretation as follows,
"Thus saith the LORD. Stay close to me my child, for today's trials and tribulations are many. I the LORD know the uncertainty that you feel. But if you hold on to me, I will carry you through."
Notice that in the example above it was the more seasoned and experienced interpreter who gave a more a more accurate interpretation of the impression from the Spirit as it relates to the meaning of the tongues.
With this in mind, no interpretation of the Spirit's leading or impression is absolutely inerrant. However, some "Words" from the Spirit may be more on target with relation to the Spirit's original intention than others.
More troublesome still, the Spirit might even challenge our traditional interpretations of Scripture. You see, while Scripture is inerrant in it's message, our interpretations of it are not. For example, in the beginning of the 20th century the Holy Spirit began challenging traditional interpretations of the godhead (Trinitarianism) and began revealing Oneness. This can get REAL sticky, especially if the Spirit is challenging a deeply established interpretation of a given text.
So we should always keep this in mind:
1.) The Spirit might indeed lead different people in different directions as it relates to various issues.
2.) The leading of the Spirit or a Word from the Spirit might be misinterpreted to some degree by the one who receives it.
3.) The Spirit can challenge our traditional interpretations of Scripture.
OK. Here's an actual example, though it wasn't written on paper. A man told me that God told him my brother would be healed of cancer.
Did God say that to the man? Can you tell?
Mike, can you?
So your brother wasn't healed of cancer THEREFORE the Bible is not inspired and the gospel is not true, right? I wonder why so many people think God somehow owes them happiness...
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