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To: Quix

"I have just awakened from a late afternoon nap. Just before fully awakening, I began to feel like I was being lifted up in the spirit."

Sounds like an experience in sleep paralysis and hypnogogic imagery to me. I've had them a zillion times. I've flown through the layers of the Earth, fought the minions of Hell in my bedroom, and took more than a few trips to Paradise on angel's wings. If I wasn't such a skeptic I might take myself for a prophet too. I'm not saying that real spiritual revelation isn't possible, but the odds of self-delusion are incredibly high.


15 posted on 08/07/2005 9:28:24 PM PDT by Avenger
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To: Avenger

Certainly the verification process in I Cor 14 is important and put there for probably several reasons.

I disagree about the analysis of this one. This person tends to have many inputs which ring true to my spirit.

Skepticism can be healthy to a point. Beyond that point, it's an affinity for a TYPE II error vs TYPE I error--or vice versa.

THINKING that something is really there when it isn't

is NOT really MORE righteous

than

thinking that something is NOT really there when it is.


16 posted on 08/07/2005 9:36:34 PM PDT by Quix (GOD'S LOVE IS INCREDIBLE . . . BUT MUST BE RECEIVED TO . . .)
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