>>How on earth do bright fair-minded RC’s
objectively
tell the difference between
1. a true Heavenly visitation/manifestation
vs
2. a carefully crafted super far advanced technologically staged hoax foisted on the world by other dimensional critters or even ET’s?
Even Scripture warns about angels of light preaching any other ‘gospel.’<<
Hey! That’s the problem with interperting scripture by myself. I’ve read passages and prayed to the Holy Spirit to enlighten me, yet still got it wrong.
I’m not sure that the Holy Spirit even spoke to me. That it wasn’t the evil one as “Angel of Light”.
I’m not that good at picking it out. That’s where my Church comes in!
Trouble is, dear heart,
that’s wimping out, imho.
SCRIPTURE CLEARLY SAYS WE MUST work out OUR OWN SALVATION WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING including listening to the still small voice of our Lord.
HE SAID HIS SHEEP HEAR HIS VOICE.
If that’s not happening, either the individual must not be His sheep or must not be listening.
Sure the still small voice of The Lord can be hard to distinguish from our own mental noise etc.
But that’s part of the training—not unlike my training as a Navy Radioman in listening to morse code. We learned the code first. Then we had to copy it amidst all manner of other noise and interference. We had to filter it out from the noise. It was still taught in 1971 because the human ear could do better at such filtering than electronics.
Sure we all make mistakes. We make mistakes in all facets of our Christian lives.
And God helps us learn and grow from them, when we are cooperative.
The goal is to train us to rule and reign with Him throughout eternity. Not to always be comfortable here.
AND, SADLY, it’s a brazen false delusion to fantasize that the magisterical has been
LESS FLAWED in their assumptions, teachings, discernments over the centuries than you have in your Christian walk.
The UNrubberized histories are emphatically clear that such is NOT the case. If anything the
“TRUTH BY POLITICAL POWER MONGERING ELITE” has done a worse job at ferreting out Biblical truth and Holy Spirit direction than you have.
imho, of course.