[Quix]

One thing I don’t understand . . .

Vatican affiliated blokes . . . seem to go through all manner of horrendous . . . ritual, effort, travail etc.

Pentecostal blokes rarely do. The best of them tend to be prayed up, fasted up, repented up, have good prayer support . . . great anointing for the task and merely speak the word and it’s done—as when Jesus or Paul spoke and it was done. They don’t tend to suffer retaliations afterwards . . . at least nothing like I read of the Vatican folks often suffering.

I don’t know why.

From what I know of the differences, the Pentecostals rely wholesale on the Blood, authority and words of Jesus and the assistance of His Spirit. They take such Scriptures as Christ having put satan under our feet in terms of authority to be real . . . and they speak and act accordingly to great effect.

[shibumi]

"From what I know of the differences, the Pentecostals rely wholesale on the Blood, authority and words of Jesus and the assistance of His Spirit. They take such Scriptures as Christ having put satan under our feet in terms of authority to be real . . . and they speak and act accordingly to great effect."

In the metaphysical theology of The Mass, the Church teaches and puts a great deal of emphasis on the difference between "accident" and "essence." For example the communion host has the "accidents" of bread, but the "essence" of the Body of Christ.

I believe that it is possible (although I am by no means an expert) that too much "accidental" reliance rather than "essential" reliance just might put one in a more vulnerable position, subject to "accidental" retaliation.

[editor-surveyor]

To speak with the power of the Holy Spirit, one must speak the word of God. Reading it directly out of the book is the best way.