Results 1 - 4 of 4
|
|
|||||
Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Ordered by Verse | ||||||
Results | Verse | Author | ID# | |||
1 | wjhat are the qualifications being | John 3:16 | mark d seyler | 149666 | ||
(Hi Kalos, this is not posted specifically to you, but to whomever it fits) Do we understand the differing between having an experience contrary to scripture, compared to having an experience in harmony with scripture while not knowing that scripture? Acts 4:31 shows one place in the book of Acts where the filling of the Holy Spirit came as a special, extra filling, or annointing, in the vocabulary of one on this forum. There are others as well if you cared to look for them. If a man is gifted by the Holy Spirit to heal, or prophesy, or to speak in tongues, while not knowing the scriptures regarding healing, or prophesying or speaking in tongues, does that make their experience unscriptural? And if that man says "I don't know where in the Bible that is, but I experienced it, and the Spirit in me confirms it," does that mean this man is living beyond what is scriptural? No. It means that a brother needs to come alongside and teach them according to the scripture, and to show where in the Bible these things are taught. The works given by the Holy Spirit are to confirm the Holy Word, and to edify (build up) the church. Do our works build up, or tear down? Love in Christ, Mark |
||||||
2 | wjhat are the qualifications being | John 3:16 | kalos | 149684 | ||
Mark: What you asked, I don't see that as being the issue. The issue here is this: If any person makes an assertion on StudyBibleForum.com, they need to back up their assertion with Scriptural evidence. Show me the Scripture. Show me the book, chapter and verse. Where does it say in the Bible what the person is asserting? If a person says "I don't know where in the Bible that is, but I experienced it, and the Spirit in me confirms it," that person is on dangerous ground. We don't confirm truth or base our beliefs on subjective feelings. We base our beliefs and teachings on what the written Word of God says -- not on experience. Experience alone has no weight. Scripture alone has all the weight we need. Thanks for your input, Mark. Good to hear from you. Grace and peace, Kalos * * * * * * * * * * * * * www.seekfind.org Christian Search Engine The mission of SeekFind.org is to provide God-honoring, Biblically-based, and theologically-sound Christian search engine results in a highly accurate and well-organized format. |
||||||
3 | wjhat are the qualifications being | John 3:16 | BradK | 149692 | ||
kalos, I commend your wise comments and share in your concern. We MUST be able to back what we say or assert with scripture. Nothing else is valid. If scripture is not the final guide- then what? I recall Jesus in John 17:17 as praying, "santify them by Your truth. Your word is truth." He did not say your "opinion is truth", "your speculation is truth", or "your experience is truth". Even Jesus- as God in the flesh- did not counter satan with His "experience" in Matt 4. He quoted the WRITTEN word! That's a pretty strong endorsement as to its' authority. As Marvin Vincent notes, "The first recorded words of Jesus after his entrance upon his ministry are an assertion of the authority of scripture, and that though he had the fullness of the Spirit. When addressing man, our Lord seldom quoted scripture, but said, I say unto you. In answer to Satan he says, It is written." Simply said: No doctrine can be asserted through revelation that comes from another source than the Bible. We have a lady in our Adult Sunday School class who claims to believe the Bible, yet strangely resorts to all kinds of speculation because "God gave us imaginations" ( 1 Opinions 3:1). She has also "experienced" seeing a 7ft angel and many other such bizarre things. Amazing, but sadly true. If experience is our guide and source of truth, the Word of God will be soon left as a relic of the past, irrelevant and unnecessary. There are no known or lost books of the Bible named 1 and 2 Opinions or Speculations for obvious reasons. They have no place next to Gods' inerrant, inspired, and authoritative Word! Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
||||||
4 | wjhat are the qualifications being | John 3:16 | Hank | 149695 | ||
Brad, that was an excellent post, my friend. .... By the way, do you happen to know how long the "visionary" lady in your SS class has been under the care of a psychiatrist? :-) So she has seen a seven-foot angel? I wonder how she goes about measuring angels -- and how many of that size you could get on the head of a pin! --Hank | ||||||