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To: kosta50; Forest Keeper; MarkBsnr; stfassisi; Dr. Eckleburg; Gamecock; wmfights; Cvengr

***First you will have to explain how do you know it was the Holy Spirit that ‘touched’ you and sent you to the scriptures? ***

Unfortunately, my dear Kosta, if we have to explain it to you, you haven’t recieved it yet. There is still hope, though. I will pray for you.


6,667 posted on 07/26/2008 1:23:48 AM PDT by irishtenor (Check out my blog at http://boompa53.blogspot.com/)
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To: irishtenor

It’s a unique feature of faith, wherein those who accept it, perceive through faith and clearly recognize its associated life.

It is difficult to describe than other simply stating one either has it or they don’t.

Describing it independently is fruitless.

So how can we describe it to another? Is it too surprising that nearly all of Scripture is actually doing just that.

It’s only as difficult as we have scarred our own minds by thinking independently from faith through Christ. All faith is from God.


6,668 posted on 07/26/2008 3:34:13 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: irishtenor; Forest Keeper; MarkBsnr; stfassisi; Dr. Eckleburg; Gamecock; wmfights; Cvengr
Kosta to FK: First you will have to explain how do you know it was the Holy Spirit that ‘touched’ you and sent you to the scriptures?

Unfortunately, my dear Kosta, if we have to explain it to you, you haven’t recieved it yet. There is still hope, though. I will pray for you

So, I am the "bad" guy for asking? If I ask you to do a bunch of math problems and you come up with correct answers, is it too much if I ask how you solved them? And if you can't, there are two possibilities: (1) one-in-impossible chance that you guessed it or (2) that you cheated (i.e. lied).

If I say that there are pink unicorns on Jupiter because one came to me and 'touched' me, you will either dismiss me as a lunatic, someone on drugs, or you will ask me to prove it.

If someone says "the Holy Spirit 'touched' me and immediately sent me to the scriptures" and I ask how do you know it was the Holy Spirit that 'touched' you and you can't answer except by appealing to some "inner knowledge," then there are two possibilities: (1) you don't know, but you think/hope/wish it was, or (2) you are lying. Which one is it?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Hopes and wishes do not constitute a proof. Otherwise we can all go around "witnessing," and making claims of "inner knowledge" as proof. That's why the Church opposed Gnosticism, which seems to be alive and well among the Reformed.

6,670 posted on 07/26/2008 9:03:42 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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