Thank you marksman for sharing your experience and resume. My aim is not to win an argument but to share of door God gives His people through gifts of the Holy Spirit to give testimony to His presence and glory and witness to His Kingdom.
Sorry but you are deluded. The Holy Spirit has nothing at all to do with the hypercriticism you spread all around these pages. If that is the Holy Spirit then I am the man in the moon.
Are you part of the group where speaking truth is hypercriticism? Once any group, literally any group, secular, business, political, religious starts to deny truth and is critical of people speaking to truth, that is where deluded has its true meaning. Like all delusions, those suffering from it will claim those speaking truth are the deluded ones. But the only way out of such a puzzle is testing what is being said.
Jesus said "I am the way, the truth and the Life" He founds himself on truth. So as soon as truth is sacrificed, no matter how small, you have left Jesus. I disassociate myself from any believers who sacrifice truth on the altar of faith. I have zero faith in liars, frauds, imposters who use money and propoganda to deny their behaviour and lies. Sadly when having faith is associated with lying, one has just lost the argument.
A fool says, you liar, you are spreading negative incidents that suggest people are not what they appear to be.
God is only interested in those who stand for truth and righteousness. It is why Israel was judge and destroyed, dragged off into captivity.
If any church goes down this road, that will be their fate. Once people start to invent incidents and events, it can easily become that is all it is.
But then a lot of believers now represent the miraculous without love and sacrifice, so it is little wonder that all they end up with is financial and sexual miss conduct, with emotional hyper behaviour. I spoke to some whose argument was if a believer argued believing in Jesus saves you no matter how you behave, if they are a corrupt lying immoral and deceiving individual, so what. Little do they realise the reality is these folk will not inherit the Kingdom. Very simple, but fools do not read or believe scripture.
19 The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions
21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:19-21
7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.
8 Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
9 Now about brotherly love we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.
1 Thessalonians 4:7-9
So a simple division. Those who support an impure life, are not of God. It is that simple.
There are issues around transformation, corruption, struggles, but the goal must not be given up or the belief that Jesus can complete the work He has begun in us.
4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy
5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now,
6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 1:4-6
Sadly on forums it is obvious many do not understand these words or even agree with them.
It is sad because they claim to know Jesus and yet are aliens to His ways and His word. Put simply they cannot be His sheep as they do not listen to His voice or follow Him. It may sound brutal, but the dividing line is very clear and simple.
27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.
John 10:27-28
I have had people declare these verses mean I do not know Jesus, because it shows Jesus promises to give eternal life to His sheep.
What these blind teachers miss or do not read, is if one listen to Jesus's voice and follow those very words, by definition you are not His sheep.
But those who are not the sheep of Jesus would not notice this, as listening to Jesus and following Him do not matter to them, literally.
It is ironic, that the very verses they used show their true condition. But the blind are always blind......