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To: Quix
Norms of the Holy Congregation for the Teaching of the Faith Concerning the Procedures for Judging Presumed Apparitions and Revelations

I was wanting to check this one out, but the link wouldn't allow me. Looks very interesting..

6,196 posted on 08/03/2010 7:34:05 PM PDT by smvoice (smvoice- formally known as small voice in the wilderness. Easier on the typing!)
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I certainly didn’t take the time to check all the links out.

That process, as I understand it, is admirably rigorous.

However, as in any congregation or denomination . . . group think; leadership power-mongering, insecurities and ego demands etc. can all sabotage Holy Spirit’s discernment in such a process.

I Cor 14 is the model. I don’t think the process, this side of Heaven, is flawless in all it’s results in all contexts. Humans are still quite fallible, flawed, sinful at their more or less best—at least part of the time, if not part of each day. Groups of humans discerning a given event, incident, “miracle,” etc. can be a collection of crazy thinking as much as they can be a collection of Holy Spirit leading. There are dozens of factors contributing to the group output on such a task. Not all those factors are anointed or purified in any given group, much less all such groups in all denominations.


6,209 posted on 08/03/2010 7:45:55 PM PDT by Quix (THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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To: smvoice; Quix
Norms of the Holy Congregation for the Teaching of the Faith Concerning the Procedures for Judging Presumed Apparitions and Revelations

I was wanting to check this one out, but the link wouldn't allow me. Looks very interesting..

Not much but try here:

Norms of the Holy Congregation....

6,437 posted on 08/04/2010 9:52:41 AM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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