....”We can KNOW from Scripture that some of what this man purports he learned by his experience is not in line with what God says.”......anytime someone makes claims about their personal experiences...... it should be measured by the one, divinely-revealed and authoritative source we have - the Holy Bible.”........
Absolutely...I've heard these stories time and again and they always end up opposing what God says. Just enough truth in them, or perceived truth to bait and switch.
This guy lost it the moment he said it's his 'experience' was what convinced him that reincarnation makes sense...hogwash on the rest of it as well.
He's doing what so many Christians are today...mixing pagan mumbo-jumbo with Christianity..and unfortunatley because so many Christians do not know what God has to say about these things, they swallow it hook line and sinker....and are then ‘set up’ for whatever further deceptions the enemy of mens souls wants to take them....and he will surely do so.
We indeed live in a society, (Christian and not), ‘who hear with their eyes and and see with their feelings’.....
Yes, we do. Many people are caught up in the mystical, or, what I call the “woo-woo” aspect of faith. Some people I've known can turn the simplest mundane thing into a supernatural experience. Always searching for an experience instead of the truth. Often, if I tried to tell them what the Bible said about something, they refused to hear it because of what they experienced and that mattered far more! It can be an insidious trap, one that Satan particularly likes to set. You're right about some people just being too lazy to search out the truth. It's just too easy for them to listen to others and swallow hook, line and sinker whatever they're told. Unfortunately, too many Christians are exactly like sheep who will follow whoever tickles their ears and promises excitement - hopping from one "revival" to the next. A very spiritually dangerous thing to do!