How Does your Faith Influence the Choices You Make In Your Life?
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Did Michael Mausers find their was into the turbulence about cessation? And dear Lord didn't some sage say slow down and listen to your's ELves ... mortals have finite spirit about the process of God sol ... a soliloquy ... given all the authorities on avarice ... thus controlled ... maybe naught!
Who was Michael anyhow, a no body and thus prodigal? He run opposite Gabriel ... in a dark masque according to Dante ... oops ... more manic paranoia ...
Who was Michael anyhow, a no body and thus prodigal? He run opposite Gabriel ... in a dark masque according to Dante ... oops ... more manic paranoia ...
jimkenney12
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Mystic and jae seem to operate in similar ways. I am surprised that unsafe has not added sny comments yet to their discussion.
chansen
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I don't see them as similar at all. There are times I like Jae.
jimkenney12
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Yes, Mystic has to be right and condescending and avoids answering questions he does not like. Jae seemed to be avoiding answering Mystic, but I realize Mystic's conditions are excessive and biased. It is clear that Mystic's faith tends to make obnoxious choices
Rubbish! Jae's cessationism is based on 1 Corinthians 13:8-10. Jae cannot find even one commentary on 1 Corinthians that supports his interpretation of that text. End of discussion. by successfully calling his bluff, I'm, spared the tedium of a detailed exegesis of the Greek text informed by the scholarly consesnsus.
Several years ago, I was Best Man in Dallas's wedding. After the honeymoon, he and his new wife invited me over for dinner. After dinner, we went downstairs to play ping pong. Dallas casually mentioned that he was going deer hunting with friends the next day. To my dismay I suddenly seemed to see his skeleton and know he would be killed in an accident if he did. I found myself saying this in coerced prophetic speech that I couldn't suppress. Both Dallas and I were horrified by what come out of my mouth. Dallas angrily replied, "You're only saying that because you oppose deer hunting!" I replied, "No, I don't object to deer hunting, though I have never done it myself." But Dallas just doubled down on his accusation.
He went deer hunting the next day in northern Manitoba. While the group was returning to their cars on their snowmobiles, Dallas hit a bump and his rifle discharged, with the round hitting him in his shoulder. He bled to death before his group could get him medical attention.
i was devastated when I heard about his death. Just prior to his marriage, Dallas had poured out his heart to me about problems with his fiance and I responded as best I coiuld. In retrospect, i concluded that God spoke through me with that fateful clairvoyant warning to make Dallas more careful in handling his hunting rifle. Dallas should have known that if I opposed deer hunting (which I don't), I would never have threatened him with death out of spite! He should have locked his rille before entering the snowmobile like the other hunters and not left it standing upright, leaning near his body. I'm haunted by this question: Why would God prompt (coerce!) me to issue this warning without imparting an inner certainty to Dallas to take precautions with his rifle?
He went deer hunting the next day in northern Manitoba. While the group was returning to their cars on their snowmobiles, Dallas hit a bump and his rifle discharged, with the round hitting him in his shoulder. He bled to death before his group could get him medical attention.
i was devastated when I heard about his death. Just prior to his marriage, Dallas had poured out his heart to me about problems with his fiance and I responded as best I coiuld. In retrospect, i concluded that God spoke through me with that fateful clairvoyant warning to make Dallas more careful in handling his hunting rifle. Dallas should have known that if I opposed deer hunting (which I don't), I would never have threatened him with death out of spite! He should have locked his rille before entering the snowmobile like the other hunters and not left it standing upright, leaning near his body. I'm haunted by this question: Why would God prompt (coerce!) me to issue this warning without imparting an inner certainty to Dallas to take precautions with his rifle?
God probably wanted you to go hunting with Dallas, but you were busy
I didn't own a deer hunting rifle and killing a deer just didn't appeal to me, though I don't object to deer hunting on moral grounds.
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Rather like me, really. I have never had venison but would try it if the opportunity presents itself. However, I am hardly someone to go out hunting my own. Not to mention that with my crappy coordination, I'd probably be more dangerous to myself than the deer.
It would have been to save Dallas....not to hunt.
I wasn't invited by the group of hunters and, as i said, I didn't even own a hunting rifle.
Besides, I warned Dallas through clairvoyant automatic speech, but I knew neither that they would be using snowmobiles nor the source of the danger to Dallas. It was only when I learned of his careless failure to lock his rifle in the snowmobile that I understood the apparent purpose of the divine warning. But my next death premonition does haunt me with what I might have done to prevent the death. I will share that in my next planned post.
BetteTheRed
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It appears to me that Dallas (your name choices are odd...) didn't trust you and was dead stupid. He's dead, deservedly so, if profound stupidity merits death, and you can claim a prophecy known only to you and a stupid dead man. Not entirely sure of the purpose of the story.
BetteTheRed
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An instructive story about using faith to influence behaviour. I had a relative (my late ex-husband's stepmother's child) who was a little younger than I. In his early 50s, he was diagnosed with lymphoma, usually a pretty treatable cancer if you follow the protocols. Not so much if you choose to trust prayer groups over chemo.
Dumb comment! Their parernts named them, not me.
in his defense I had no evidence, only a clairvoyant gift. Still, we were good friends and he trusted my premarital counseling. He should have at least taken my warning as advice to take care of gun safety.
Yes, because my many clairvoyant intuitions have never been wrong!
Consider my next testimony about Ted.
Ted had the best sense of humor of anyone I knew at Princeton. I regularly sat at his refectory table to be ent4ertained with the others by his wit and jokes.. Ted had just been accepted into the doctoral program in New Testament at Cambridge U. in England and i wanted to borrow his Cambridge catalogue to apply there as well. It was the day before we were all leaving for home on Christmas break. When I came to his dorm room in Alexander Hall and received the Cambridge catalogue, I suddenly seemed to see Ted's skeleton as I had done with Dallas, and knew he would imminently die! But this time, I knew nothing of Ted's travel plans as I did with Dallas. i was in a hurry to pack and tried to put this fatal premonition out of my mind.
After Christmas vacation, I returned to Princeton and ran into my friend Frank, who had his arm in a cast and sling. He told me that he was driving Ted back to Ohio, where they both lived. Frank drove too fast on the very icy onramp to the freeway, his car spun, and he hit a telephone poll. Ted in the passenger seat was instantly killed, but Frank only broke his arm. Why had God given me that premonition, when, unlike Dallas's case, there was nothing Ted could do to save his life? In reflecting on these deaths, I wish I had prayed for both Dallas and ted the moment I received both death premonitions. I didn't because both premonitions took me by such great surprise that I had trouble processing them and tried to deny them in the interests of comfort.
I now realize that divine guidance can be a complex mix of divine revelation and an opening of the hidden psychic potential of the mind to foreknow things without regard to their practical beneficial aspects.
After Christmas vacation, I returned to Princeton and ran into my friend Frank, who had his arm in a cast and sling. He told me that he was driving Ted back to Ohio, where they both lived. Frank drove too fast on the very icy onramp to the freeway, his car spun, and he hit a telephone poll. Ted in the passenger seat was instantly killed, but Frank only broke his arm. Why had God given me that premonition, when, unlike Dallas's case, there was nothing Ted could do to save his life? In reflecting on these deaths, I wish I had prayed for both Dallas and ted the moment I received both death premonitions. I didn't because both premonitions took me by such great surprise that I had trouble processing them and tried to deny them in the interests of comfort.
I now realize that divine guidance can be a complex mix of divine revelation and an opening of the hidden psychic potential of the mind to foreknow things without regard to their practical beneficial aspects.
Allow me to share how I believe divine guidance has taken place in my life. I believe it comes to me in a number of ways, and I most like to see all of those ways working together. The four ways I trust most in are: wise counsel, Scripture, providential circumstances, and what I consider to be the inner voice of the Holy Spirit.
So, for example, here's how those four ways worked out before I moved from Canada to South Korea.
Wise counsel: It was Yobo who first suggested that we come to live here, and she's the wisest person whom I know. After she did so, I asked others for counsel, because I believe that God can speak to me through wisdom that He gives to other folk. The others I consulted included my pastor, some friends, family members, and the professor of my seminary program. Everyone thought that our coming here might prove to be an excellent opportunity for ministry.
Scripture: Since I also believe that God can speak to me through the Bible, I checked to see to see if there was anything in it which might prevent me from moving. There wasn't.
Providential circumstances: I include this because of my belief that if God wants me to do something, He'll put things in place so that goal can be reached. At the time, both Yobo and I had no real work or church commitments that we couldn't easily break. I had just finished my seminary degree so I didn't feel bound to stay in Canada because of school. I was beginning to find reasonable leads on a first job here, and Yobo had a job lined up with our oldest son.
The inner voice of the Holy Spirit: This is an inner sense of guidance I believe I feel since the Holy Spirit lives within me. It's a feeling I get that's like a nudge in the right direction. I found myself with a profound sense of peace about moving to Korea, and an eagerness to follow the Spirit here
And I feel, overall, that the decision Yobo and I made has worked out well for us. We're both happy living and working here. And we're involved in a church ministry which we didn't expect we would be while we were still in Canada
So, for example, here's how those four ways worked out before I moved from Canada to South Korea.
Wise counsel: It was Yobo who first suggested that we come to live here, and she's the wisest person whom I know. After she did so, I asked others for counsel, because I believe that God can speak to me through wisdom that He gives to other folk. The others I consulted included my pastor, some friends, family members, and the professor of my seminary program. Everyone thought that our coming here might prove to be an excellent opportunity for ministry.
Scripture: Since I also believe that God can speak to me through the Bible, I checked to see to see if there was anything in it which might prevent me from moving. There wasn't.
Providential circumstances: I include this because of my belief that if God wants me to do something, He'll put things in place so that goal can be reached. At the time, both Yobo and I had no real work or church commitments that we couldn't easily break. I had just finished my seminary degree so I didn't feel bound to stay in Canada because of school. I was beginning to find reasonable leads on a first job here, and Yobo had a job lined up with our oldest son.
The inner voice of the Holy Spirit: This is an inner sense of guidance I believe I feel since the Holy Spirit lives within me. It's a feeling I get that's like a nudge in the right direction. I found myself with a profound sense of peace about moving to Korea, and an eagerness to follow the Spirit here
And I feel, overall, that the decision Yobo and I made has worked out well for us. We're both happy living and working here. And we're involved in a church ministry which we didn't expect we would be while we were still in Canada
Is cessation like repose ... thus stilled waters are whipped into froth? Some people are like that ... just no kohl depth ...
Is this un bright or just stupid as some would desire the rest of the place to be for central survival urges ... sometimes therein is a hint of sign that its time to get out ...
It always seems that there is more to learn in stories about dah Alla's folk ... even if spelt po' Alice ... God in any form of incarnation seems to set us in a stupefied trend that we believe we know everything ... and alas we learn different ... alien modification of neuro matter? That could arrive as a shock ... electrifying? Neural matter seems to react to it ...
The do some miss nerves whatsoever and thus that missing bit to the abstract? They plunge in wherever ...divers AH?
The do some miss nerves whatsoever and thus that missing bit to the abstract? They plunge in wherever ...divers AH?