Ummm! If a man has not had as you put it an "experience" then how can he say he is born again?
Oh, that's right, you think that decisions create character! Well, I say that experience (tribulation) produces character! I wonder which one of us the Bible will say is right!?!
the experience should not be the guide for his life, but the scriptures. The experience after all came from hearing the words of God (faith cometh by hearing). A mystic is someone who makes Scripture fit his experiences, just like Eliphaz,Now a thing was secretly brought to me and mine ear received a little thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night when deep sleep falleth on men (Job.4:12-13)
Oh, that's right, you think that decisions create character! Well, I say that experience (tribulation) produces character! I wonder which one of us the Bible will say is right!?!
Yes, experience does created character if one chooses to follow God in that tribulation. It is not automatic-is it? You do have to decide not to grieve(Eph.4) or quench(1Thes.5) the Holy Spirit-right? Or does God use His irresistable grace on you for that also?