Part of me wants to go BBBBTTTTTTT at so much lawyer type wording.
Instead, I think I'll just note the Biblical standard given
. . . does the source/speaker assert
THAT CHRIST CAME IN THE FLESH . . .
Works for me.
After that, probably the fruits of The Spirit in any Biblical list are added information contributive to accurate conclusions about the spirituality . . . and thereby the kosherness of the individual(s) concerned.
Fruitfulness, is also a Biblical fruit of The Spirit.
I don't know of any better criteria, at all.
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In the coming months and years . . . ALL authority of an earthly sort--is going to be at least shaken--probably most will be shredded, flushed and/or at best thoroughly overhauled and reararranged.
In most locales and probably all at one time or another . . . there will be no effective authority on the natural plain. The spiritual warfare in the heavenlies will have descended to earth with a vengeance.
Children younger than 8 or 10 will wield spiritual authority that will send generals and their armies to their deaths and hell . . . as such anointed children speak out what Holy Spirit gives them to say.
HOLY SPIRIT WILL BE INCREASINGLY IN CHARGE COVERTLY AND OVERTLY. He will do so through UTTERLY YIELDED VESSELS. Others will muddle through as best they can, which won't be very well. Hearing and obeying Holy Spirit will be the only protection, the only life.
I care not how many doubt the above words. Time will tell. And all who have read them will remember.
Here's the dilemma: either those children will have more spiritual authority than you, or their spiritual authority will be equal to or less than your spiritual authority.
If those children will have more spiritual authority than do you, will you submit to them? But if the spiritual authority of those children will be equal to or less than your spiritual authority, will you too be sending "generals and their armies to their deaths and hell"?
-A8