Perhaps her love of the Lord and her personal relationship with Him just gets more airtime around here from her.
Perhaps just an overly-zealous Pentecostal type? I’m not sure how you relate fellowship-wise with someone who claims God purposely gives different information to different people.
"These are the leanings I have received in the Spirit. That yours are somewhat different is moot. His will for us is not necessarily the same." (AG)
Confusing language.
I've FReepmailed A-G my change in perspective, too. I think the words "my leanings" and "my musings" tend to throw people a little. 8~)
The admonition against "private interpretation" can be seen as three-fold: 1) the necessity of like-minded saints rightly dividing the word of God with discernment and correcting each other in fellowship; and 2) understanding Scripture not by our own ability, but by the leading of the Holy Spirit; and 3) Scripture interprets Scripture.
Our own Westminster Confession makes the point clear --
The supreme judge by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture." (WCF: Of the Holy Scriptures)"The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself: and therefore, when there is a question about the true and full sense of any Scripture (which is not manifold, but one), it must be searched and known by other places that speak more clearly.
Finally, it was when I went back to John Calvin and read what he so confidently wrote about the Holy Spirit leading the individual conscience that I began to see A-G's posts in a different light.
Because Scripture so testifies, Calvin would agree with Alamo-Girl that God shows Himself to all men everywhere throughout His creation and thus all men are without excuse (Romans 1:20); that God instructs all men in His word, although good fruit is produced only in the "good ground" as first prepared by God (Mark 4); and that the Holy Spirit moves in perfect love and truth within His elect, according to His good pleasure, for and through Jesus Christ, "by whom all things consist."
When A-G proclaimed God's election of His family from before the foundation of the world for His glory alone I realized we were often saying the same thing.
And I rejoiced in that knowledge because, as A-G often so eloquently reminds us...
"To God be all the glory."
"Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless" -- Cornelius Van Til; THE DEFENSE OF THE FAITH, pg 43