The role of experience

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RickyZ

RickyZ

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'Expect' is not the right word. 'Happen' is better descriptive, as in things happen even when not expected. I never wished for the krishna experience and I've passed dozens of their assemblies both before and after without a single thought of doing what I did in this case. It's just in that case the Spirit said act, and I did, and a gathering of evil was dispersed. Who knows who didn't get recruited that day? The Holy Spirit do.

The whole point anyway was, how do you reconcile when some make very elegant and well thought out scriptural arguments against something or the other happening; yet despite all that it does, on a regular basis, happen?


I appreciate all the responses!
 
crossnote

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there is one kind of experience most wont tout...it's called SUFFERING. And yet the Godly aren't immune to it
 
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psychomom

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Oh, no, you don't know me well enough yet. ;)

Pour come coffee and pull up a chair and let me tell you all about my suffering,
because I've raised complaining to an art form. :rolleyes:

ps-- be prepared for SIX stories of pregnancy and childbirth...lol
 
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Abiding

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I have no experience at all making rolls
but i love those that do!:p



mmmm pass the butter.
 
oldhermit

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Perhaps the question that needs to be more addressed is, should one use experience as a foundation for understanding scripture or should one learn to understand all experience from the context of scripture?
 
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twofeet

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oldhermit said:
Perhaps the question that needs to be more addressed is, should one use experience as a foundation for understanding scripture or should one learn to understand all experience from the context of scripture?
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When I became a christian, I gave my life to God, repented from the bottom of my heart. the next day I could feels Gods presence all around me.Every time I did something wrong i felt convicted. I hear God talking. A week later I brought a bible and read that only sin separates man from God and if you truly repent you will be forgiven. My experience was backed up by Gods word. I experienced something I had no idea about....but it was VERY real (and still is all those years later). I understood from Gods word that whilst i had sin it was like a brick wall between me and God so i couldnt feel Him or hear Him and once you truly repent and surrender your life that brick wall is removed. My life has carried on since that day with both "practical" (experience) and "theory" (Gods word) working side by side. Personally as it says in Rev that they Overcome by the blood of the lamb AND the testimony of the saints that a personal testimony, grounded in Gods word is very powerful. I know today, many say it is "all about the word" and nothing else. But Peter was the Apostle , the Rock that the church was built on...and why was that out of ALL the other disciples? Because he was the ONLY one that had revelation from God that Jesus was the Christ. It certain wasnt cos he was anything special because in the same passage Jesus rebuked him! The church is BUILT on revelation, communication with God. Not people. Only experience WITH God will ground a person.
 
oldhermit

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Do you feel there could ever be an occasion when one's "experience with God" could ever overturn the language of the text? If so, give me an example.
 
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twofeet

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oldhermit said:
Do you feel there could ever be an occasion when one's "experience with God" could ever overturn the language of the text? If so, give me an example.
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Nope, not f you go back to scripture EVERY time
 
oldhermit

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So, how would one separate the biblical representation of human experience and the emotion of the experience? It cannot be denied that most often we are more prone to interpret an experience through the lense of emotion rather that the gramatical structure of the text.
 
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oldhermit said:
So, how would one separate the biblical representation of human experience and the emotion of the experience? It cannot be denied that most often we are more prone to interpret an experience through the lense of emotion rather that the gramatical structure of the text.
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It all depends if you are living from spirit or by emotions. The two are very different.
 
RickyZ

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oldhermit said:
Do you feel there could ever be an occasion when one's "experience with God" could ever overturn the language of the text? If so, give me an example.
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It would never overturn the scriptures, but it might overturn some interpretations thereof.

For example, someone who interprets scripture as saying the gift of healing isn't alive today may rethink that should they ever allow themselves to experience a miraculous healing.
 
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