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Bible Note: I'm sorry my whole response did not show up the first time. I will post again JVH0212 thank you for your kind and gracious complements. I too respect and hold you in high esteem. I think your above reproach in you honesty and your diligence to seeking the true Word of God. In the same way you came forth and responded to my point I would like to respond to yours. Let me say I find myself defending something I view with some disdain. It was never my intention to do so however I can no more agree with opposite position that would call being “slain in the spirit” as being from Satan. First I’m on record as saying there is no Biblical evidence, which convinces me, to support the manifestation of being “Slain in the Spirit”. I have also gone on record and said that in most cases “Slain in the Spirit” is nothing more that fleshly manifestations. Behind which I think there is two causes. The first, the desire to belong, everyone else is doing so I will too. The second a psychological/bodily reaction, in this I believe the participant while earnestly seeking of God is startled, shocked, caught up in the moment when someone suddenly shouts and touches (sometimes pushes, other times strike) them and their body reacts, with an inborn flight reflex(as to escape) and having no where to go their legs collapse. However I can believe there have been valid cases of being “slain in the Spirit”, times when God wanted that person’s full and undivided attention. They are rare, very rare in my opinion. I believe when it happens the person that has had the experience will be completely transformed by the experience. I do not believe they will rise, dust themselves off, go back, and sit down. God will have given them a mission and I believe they will become driven. I do not believe there is any facts to repudiate the above statement. What JVH0212 is responding to is my response to “There” where he would call “Slain in the Spirit” a counterfeit of Satan. I stated that because “Slain in the Spirit’ does not violate anything in the Bible I can find no standard to judge it. JVH0212 brings up Hank Hanegraaff’s excellent book “The Counterfeit Revival” which I have read and for the most part agree with. In it Mr. Hanegraaff examines the practice of “Slain in the Spirit’ as conducted in big name revivals and TV evangelist. Where it becomes almost circus like with the “Preacher” pumping the experience, people dropping but then they move to get comfortable, catchers catching/dropping people, people are falling on others, people are shoving, pushing, it at times becomes nearly total chaos. Is it wrong to orchestrate something like this? Absolutely and that was the point Hank Hanegraaff was making. Here the facts do support the above statement, and that people have been injured, damaged both physically and spiritually. Let me net this out. All I’m saying both to JVH0212 and “There’ is while the experience has no Biblical foundation, neither does it violate any biblical foundations. Therefore it is a matter of ones heart, who but God can see the heart to say this person did or did not have a valid experience in the Lord? Again I’m not condoning the practice, nor do I promote it. However I will not say nor do any facts support that EVERYONE that has ever been ‘slain in the spirit’ was faking, giving into flesh, or was deceived by Satan. |