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What say you all?
Have you ever had a Paranormal Spiritual Encounter?
Met Christ Face to Face?
Seen a blinding light?
Enjoyed a life changing moment?
Experienced a Reincarnation?

When I was first looking for new Church I entered the Church I am a part of now and when it was time to partake of the Holy Eucharist which contains the Real Presence of Christ I was overwhelmed and started to weep, I knew I found home.
 
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Sorry, Scripture says to rebuke false teachers and prophets. Test the spirits. So if they can't be tested they are to be rejected.
OK, but I won't even ask the means you use to test the spirits. Oh, I know you use the Bible or you use the tests someone else already applied using the Bible.

I also test the spirits, but daily surrender to the lead of the Holy Spirit and keep first things first. That may mean nothing to you except perhaps another point of disagreement.

Again you understand why there are denominations.
 
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Well, considering men don't live for 2,000 years, I think it is a pretty safe position.
A safe position is, it? That is the same argument I have heard from BOL and Marymog on this very forum. You said earlier that you were not a Catholic, but you use the same argument they do. Doesn't make you stop and consider again? Do you live by faith or according to history and a position made safe by time?

"Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways." Haggai 1:7
 

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A safe position is, it? That is the same argument I have heard from BOL and Marymog on this very forum. You said earlier that you were not a Catholic, but you use the same argument they do. Doesn't make you stop and consider again? Do you live by faith or according to history and a position made safe by time?

"Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways." Haggai 1:7
Safe because the only men who met the requirement of an Apostle died 2,000 years ago.
 

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Safe because the only men who met the requirement of an Apostle died 2,000 years ago.
Jesus also died about 2,000 years ago, but He lives today! I guess you don't understand that you are working to prove that He is still dead! You did not see Him die and you did not see Him resurrect, therefore...?

I see Him when I read my Bible, and when I talk to Him and He talks to me, but I also see Him in the lives of some people on this forum. But you, on the other hand take up the way of Saul of Tarsis by throwing water on the Life of God in them anytime someone tries to give you a little a glimpse... as if you could put out the Light of God.

 
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Jesus also died about 2,000 years ago, but He lives today! I guess you don't understand that you are working to prove that He is still dead! You did not see Him die and you did see Him resurrect, therefore...?
We aren't talking about Jesus. Surely you know He has a big difference from the Apostles....

I see Him when I read my Bible, and when I talk to Him and He talks to me, but I also see Him in the lives of some people on this forum. But you, on the other hand take up the way of Saul of Tarsis by throwing water on the Life of God in them anytime someone tries to give you a little a glimpse... as if you could put out the Light of God.
This is not true. I just don't allow emotion to overthrow the Scriptures. I'll stick with the scriptures.
 

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First, I have never said I am a pastor. Second, I preach the Scriptures. That's what I have to offer. The Scriptures.
Okay, make it preacher then. People have Bibles to read for themselves. Why do they need you? I don't understand your idea that what you have to offer them is the Scriptures unless they don't own Bibles. In what way you own the Scripture but they don't?
 
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For me it was in my desperation for life, both physically and mentally, in that context God opened my spiritual eyes, as it were.

Much love!
Well see, my point exactly, can't put Him or your faith in a box....for each of us it is different.:)
 
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an Absolute Truth, right

regardless of what Scripture has to say on the matter
i guess
Do you realize how often you make this comment or ones similar without supplying a scripture with which you are referring to?
 

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Yes, but it says it says it in the OT long before the Holy Ghost was poured out. Did that make a difference? Also we see even that David, the shepherd boy become King, was told to seek His face. Would he be told to do that if it only meant death? Then again the Apostle Paul writes that there will be a "then" in which we will see Him "face to face".

"And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live." Ex 33:20

"When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek." Psalm 27:8


"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." I Cor 13:12

"And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:" John 17:22
Main emphasis was on the hearing....but it is such a huge lesson and so much to quote and cover in one little thread...lol
 
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Sorry, Scripture says to rebuke false teachers and prophets. Test the spirits. So if they can't be tested they are to be rejected.
I am still waiting for the Scripture that states the canon was closed when John finished writing Revelation. If you gave it, I missed it.

I'm still trying to figure out what your saying you could offer people the Scriptures as if they belonged to you in some special way so that people need to run to you to get the Scriptures. Yes, I'm trying to test that spirit. It also double minded since on one hand you advise people to read the Bible for themselves but on other you say you can "offer" them the Scriptures. It looks like pride or delusion is at work to me.
 
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The Albigensians published an inaccurate translation of the Bible
So of course which meant the following was essential right... Giving others the freedom to worship according to conscience was unthinkable... Destroy them all... God won't do it so we have to yes?
The Waldensians, the Albigenses, the Paulicians, were different names of the same people, and the papacy hated them with a vengeance and instigated crusades against them in an evil demon inspired attempt to destroy them, and then invented lies concerning them to justify their murdering vicious Antichrist butchering.

You are an apologist for Protestants that hated Catholics so much they hunted them down and killed them. T
Mmm. Of course they did. And we still celebrate them today... Like Guy Fawkes day. Yeah.
The same Protestant Church
There is no such thing as a Protestant church. In fact, there's barely any protestants left Mary. They've all capitulated and returned to mother. The rest will follow suit eventually. According to them the protest is finished. Who's protesting on this forum today? Me, aaannd...
The Roman Church did start in Rome....that is only logical!
And what happened to the church of Syria... Ethiopia... India.... Persia.... Afghanistan.... China.... Britain....
 

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Directly with special revelation, correct. He no longer does that per His own decree. The canon of Scripture is closed.
What did you shut the door and throw away the key, so He couldnt talk to you.. But he seems to have little regard for mens foolishness as He still talks to men and reveals Himself to them. You are throwing out all the best bits of God just so you can pleas your flesh.

Rom 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Rom 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
 
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No, you lied. Plain and simple. The fact that you won't back up the lie is proof of it. You will never find me say that God could not speak to people today. I said, and have always said, He does not by His own decree.
Show me where God said HE would no longer speak to man I will show you a gazzilion places where Jesus said HE would.

Joh 10:26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
Joh 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
Joh 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Joh 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
 

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ha i think "free beer tomorrow" pretty succinctly defines the phenom lol;
the kingdom of heaven is within you
and as to the third heaven,
where I am going, you cannot come
Do you realize how often you make this comment or ones similar without supplying a scripture with which you are referring to?
those up there were right above, my apologies, but there are many, many others, you and your sons will be here with me, No one has ever gone up to heaven, There is only One Immortal, lilies of the field, all go to the same place, if you dig a pit for others, no one knows where they go when they die
 
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those up there were right above, my apologies, but there are many, many others, you and your sons will be here with me, No one has ever gone up to heaven, There is only One Immortal, lilies of the field, all go to the same place, if you dig a pit for others
John 8:21 and John 13:33.