Is that knowledge or belief that it applies to you?
If you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then you can resist; if you are not truly filled, then you can succumb.
A person who does not have the Spirit indwelling him is not a Christian:
Does that mean that you believe that the Spirit can only come upon an infant? Or are you going over to the Reformed hijacking theological thought?
The rest of your post is exalting the Catholic Church.
Exalting? I am trying to point out its responsibilities. And I have occasionally mentioned the predicted results of failure by individuals within the Church.
Gamecock: "This goes to what the Reformers taught; that is the "enthusiasts" or what we call today Pentecostals, are really no different from the Roman Catholics." |
But the word of God grew and multiplied. Acts 12:21-24
This is a terrible, terrible insult to the Blood of Christ.
And for that reason I never allow an atheist or agnostic to control the rules of engagement, including the dictionary and I always begin my reply with my testimony:
I am the good shepherd, and know my [sheep], and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. John 10:14-15
[Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. John 14:17
Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying. John 8:55
A childs faith is simple, trusting, and it is both treasured and protected by God.
And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and [that] he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Matt 18:16