Posted on 01/27/2008 7:56:14 PM PST by Manfred the Wonder Dawg
Of a truth, were it not for the crystalline geometry of frozen water, it would not float and the life beneath would not be insulated and would die.
That is a fact that I can attest to as well, 1000 Silverings! Alamo-Girl has never claimed that she has any special powers of her own, but proclaims the glory and power of God alone, and more than anyone I know tries ever to abide in His Holy Spirit. In the sense of actually living a Christian life, she is fulfilling the teaching of the Church, not setting herself in odds with it.
Thank you so much for your post!
” Your post has brought me to tears, dear brother in Christ! Thank you!”
Oh please!
but after awhile, when they are all seen in continuity, and consistency, AG posts nothing that boasts of herself, but if she boasts at all , she boasts in God and gives Him the glory.
= = =
INDEED!
QUITE SO. QUITE SO, Dear Sister in Christ.
Thx for your exhortations, example and encouragements.
So . . . are you . . .
uhhhh . . . questioning Alamo-Girl’s honesty?
. . . her candor?
. . . her authenticity?
. . . her being touched to the point of tears?
. . .
WHAT pray tell, is your ?incredulity? about???
And based on what . . . (besides wholesale biased presumption and assumption)?
“Alamo-Girl has never claimed that she has any special powers of her own,...”
Of course she has. She has today. She claims the power to discern the actual and exact words of God apart from the words of the Apostles, apparently in a manner heretofore unknown to The Church. To me, that power is “special”. Claiming that power publicly is something else entirely.
“...and more than anyone I know tries ever to abide in His Holy Spirit.”
Really, BB? Just how is that being accomplished? Does it have to do with a lot of arm waving and shouting “Maranatha Jesus” or is there something else to it? Does it have anything to do with snakes? As you all know or have been informed, we Orthodox worship, what was it? Oh, stumps or some such thing. Does it have to do with stumps?
“Just as the fishermen hide the hook with bait and covertly hook the fish, similarly, the crafty allies of the heresies cover their evil teachings and corrupt understanding with pietism and hook the more simple, bringing them to spiritual death.” The man who said this, our venerable and God-bearing Father +Isidore of Pelusium was no fool, nor did he suffer heresy or heretics lightly. In great measure you have him to thank that you are likely neither a Nestorian or a Monophysite. There are reasons to be wary of excessive public piety or the ready acceptance of spiritual praise!
See #2829
Ah! so your a hard case... K-man...
So was Jonah... The lord specializes in hard cases..
Thank God..
“The answer is yes when they are following the teachings of the Church”
The question doesn’t ask about “following the teachings” or “indwelling of the Holy Spirit”. It is a question of epistomology; how do we know. Before the individual follows the teachings of the church, does the Holy Spirit lead the individual to believe the teachings of the church are true?
The question does not deal with all of the teachings of the church, just enough to convince the individual to commit to the church for salvation. Is that the leading of the Holy Spirit in the life of the individual?
Yes,I do believe that
Do you very,very,very,very strongly believe your own personal interpretations of Scripture are always correct?
What balderdash!
Alamo-Girl and other Protties have claimed nothing which Scripture has not declared is part of the
NORMAL CHRISTIAN LIFE, for EVERY Believer willing to walk obediently with God sufficiently close to manifest such things in their lives, by God’s Grace.
as Watchman Nee might put it!
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Of course, the key quibble seems to be . . . that there’s
NO MAGICSTERICAL
MODERATING, ADMINSTERING, CONTROLLING, MANIPULATING, MANGLING, . . . such
DIRECT HOLY SPIRIT—BELIEVER phenomena.
Welllllllll whoop T Do! Seems to me God has a BIG PREFERENCE
TO RELATED TO
HIS KIDS
DIRECTLY
And the bureaucracy be hanged.
How anyone could read of Christ’s dealings with the RELIGIOUS RULERS of 2000 years ago and
even extrapolate anything different is mind boggling.
On the other hand . . . thanks for helping me seen the need to return the EO edifice’s ranking quite lower yet again.
When the Apostles argued who would be greatest in heaven(sic).. Jesus took a liyttle child and said UNLESS they become as one of "these" they would not see the Kingdom of the Heavens..
"Greatest in Heaven"?, indeed.. The sub-Apostles or ones following them were no doubt just as prone to arrogance.. You think?.. Heaven is NOT gained by the SMART but by the faithful.. AND SIMPLE... Even the orthodox, you know, like some Jewish Rabbis...
So... you will tell us what we are to believe and if we don't believe you, and or the men you follow,there is no place in your Christianity for the rest of us? Hoo boy, what does that lead to?
We ought to obey God rather than men (Acts 5:29).
Mark 9:38
And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.
“On the other hand . . . thanks for helping me seen the need to return the EO edifice’s ranking quite lower yet again.”
You are very welcome Quix. I am pleased to be able to confirm previously formed opinions.
“The lord specializes in hard cases..
Thank God....”
Indeed; He absolutely has His work cut out for Him with me. The Metropolitan and I were chuckling about this very thing just this morning after the Liturgy.
“The sub-Apostles or ones following them were no doubt just as prone to arrogance.. You think?.. Heaven is NOT gained by the SMART but by the faithful.. AND SIMPLE...”
Exactly, hp, exactly. That’s why the floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.
Actually, I was being more than a little cheeky.
I’ve tended to hold the EO edifice quite a bit above he RC edifice.
But y’all really have eroded that historical sense of mine a lot more than I’d have preferred.
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