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1 | Holy Living | 1 Thess 4:7 | DocTrinsograce | 174092 | ||
Dear Eklektos, You are, of course, welcome to your personal position and particular practice. Thank you for sharing. Our forum, however, is a Study BIBLE Forum -- not a Study Experience Forum, nor a Study Mysticism Forum. Our interest is in the study of the Word of God. It is predicated on the doctrines of the clarity, sufficiency, necessity, and authority of the Bible. Although we believe that the Holy Spirit illumines our understanding of the Scripture, we believe in the verbal plenary inspiration of the Scriptures. This is why the Lockman Foundation has invested so much scholarly time, effort, and expertise in the translation of the text of Scripture. Should any of us have an interest in these other things of which you write, there are many, many other forums on the Internet in which we can and should participate. (If you need help to find them, please email me directly.) However, I suspect that those forums would also appreciate their participants staying on the topic for which they were formed. Your enthusiasm is obvious, and your sincerity is not doubted. Thank you, again, for investing time and effort in your reply. In Him, Doc |
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2 | Holy Living | 1 Thess 4:7 | eklektos | 174093 | ||
Dearest Doctrinograce, Thank you very much for speaking for the entire forum. I am sure that all the participants have the same mind since you said so. Christ had the same problem with the Pharisees. I still love you and pray that you will see. All that has and ear, there is no malice here. eklektos |
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3 | Holy Living | 1 Thess 4:7 | Hank | 174098 | ||
Eklektos: Is it some form of spiritual myopia that has come over me, or do I detect a trace of mordancy in your response to Doc? ...... How can an explanation of the aims and purposes of Study Bible Forum, such as what Doc gave you, be linked with Christ's problem with the Pharisees? There again, my myopia must be acting up. I don't get it. I don't understand why anyone would want to snap at the hand that was trying to guide and help him. ........ May I kindly suggest, yea, urge you, to assign yourself the lowly task of carefully reading Lockman's exposition of the purpose and design of SBF along with the guidelines the Foundation has laid down. Considerable thought and effort have gone into these directives, and they are not to be taken lightly. It is academic whether Doc spoke for all Forum registrants. He did, however, give you an accurate account of the Forum's raison d'etre, as well as some tips for proper use of the Forum, all of which are fully in accord with the Forum's published guidelines that appear in various side bars under "Resources" at the left of the home page screen. ..... It behooves all of us to pay earnest heed to these guidelines. Knowing and playing by the rules makes the game a heap more fun and tends to keep the referee off one's back. I do hope you take these suggestions in the spirit in which they are given, which is merely to remind us all and keep us reminded of what kind of a Forum this is and of how we are supposed to behave as registrants. ...... A parting word on what the Forum IS NOT. It IS NOT a medium for exchanging anecdotes of perceived special or private revelation, dream sequences, glossolalia experiences, testimonials of being 'slain in the spirit' or any other extra-biblical experiences, doctrines, hunches, convictions, etc. We meet on these pages to study Scripture together, not to bloviate about our special insights and spiritual gifts, or to convert others to our opinions and pet doctrines, or to speak harshly and disparagingly to or about those whose religious convictions may not always mirror our own. "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." --Hank | ||||||
4 | Holy Living | 1 Thess 4:7 | eklektos | 174116 | ||
Hello Hank, Thank you. My rebuttal came when someone posted the following: "Christian growth in our lives is not achieved by ecstatic moments at the altar. That is not the way God works in the life of the believer. --John MacArthur" Then I was told ecstatic experiences were not Scriptural. Act 10:10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, Act 11:5 I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me: And this: Act 22:17 And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance; could be summarized as an ecstatic moment at the alter - reproving the words of John MacArthur. eklektos |
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