Some people in Christianity today despise people who look for signs of life as those who are somehow weak and not able to live by faith. To some being able to live without signs is considered a higher form of true Christianity. They do not need to speak in tongues nor believe in a rapture. They do not need emotional experiences. In fact the less signs they have the more they believe they are walking strong in God.
The above is from the op.
I don't know who you are talking about...these some people in Christianity...many people call themselves Christian simply because they darken the door of a church on Sunday morning.
I do not know anyone who actually IS a Christian who does not believe in the rapture even though there is disagreement as to whether or not it is pre, during or post trib.
No one needs to speak in tongues...that is not salvation. Experiences and signs are not salvation.
You use the word despise in a way that suggests that those who do not speak in tongues or have visions are hateful people...yet who is hateful to suggest that those who simply
believe the Bible and live a life of regard for their Savior are the hateful ones? You almost sound like you are sneering at anyone who does not live up to your expectation
of holiness or visionary.
Before you try to slice me off at the knees as one of those haters of all things supernatural, for the record, I am spirit-filled and I speak in tongues and have had quote unquote
experiences and I have sought God to know Him as He truly is and not as people represent or misrepresent Him. And THAT is why I take personal exception to your biased
and un-Christian tones and the way you put people down if they do not agree with you.
God is patient, kind and loving. He does not have the same road for everyone to walk on yet He gives the same salvation to everyone who calls upon His Name.
From where I stand, you do not know God at all if you persist in putting other Christians down because, according to YOU, they have not fulfilled what YOU PERSONALLY
seek after.
Seek all the experiences you want and that your heart lusts after. God states that we will find Him when we seek after HIM...HIM, not some subjective experience that people
who judge others by the inconsistency of personal interpretation are prone to consider as validation of a heart that yearns for God.
Your op smacks of disregard for others and shows ignorance of the word...which is, I guess,is to be expected when one chucks it out the window in pursuit of yet another goosebump
because the last one has worn off.
The truth is that we are all mixed up about a great many things in Christianity. In our hearts we want to serve God but we just don’t know how to properly go about it. This is why we desperately need to live by revelation for only in that way can our Father teach us what we really need to know. We need clarity more than conformity. Only through obtaining His perspective can we possibly change our perspective.
No.
That is not the truth.
That, is simply your personal perspective because a person seeking experience above the truth is without a road map and has no moorings.
You cannot obtain God's perspective other than what He has already given. You are simply someone else who once having accepted the truth,
has taken things into their own hands and modified the objective to justify their subjective.
You easily slip into name calling, such as anti-Christ, and in fact, you made the statement that you do not recognize the spirit I represent. That, I guess, is how far from
the truth you have fallen because any other Christian knowing the word, having the spirit of God within them, can easily recognize that I serve God
and believe that Jesus Christ is Lord and there is no other.
In conclusion, signs are indicators that God is present and we should welcome them into our lives and into our churches. Jesus said that He came to bring us life and life more abundantly therefore when He is present there will be signs of life. Let no one intimidate us into thinking that we should not want to see and experience such signs for to be with God is the goal we all hope for and share.
Your advice above sounds more like 'let's all throw caution to the wind and have a good time and anything goes...it must all be from God because we are Christians after all"
Are you deliberately trying to deceive or is that a side effect of your experiences? The life Jesus is speaking of is not a sign. You are actually stating, in the quote above,
that seeking signs and having an experience creates 'being with God' and is the goal we all hope for and share? We shall be with God through our experience? That, sounds
mystical and very un-Christian.
Actually, I am not going to let people who talk like you do intimidate me into denying the true gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and rejecting totally and with good conscience the
NOT Holy Spirit experience you espouse.
As I have already stated I do not deny the existence of the supernatural and God's right to bestow such upon whom He will, I doubt that your slanderous attempt to create a false
picture of me will have any effect. What I am against, are the teachings of demonic spirits through deceived individuals who wish to validate their experience by creating it
anew in folk who are ignorant of the scripture or young in the faith and without teaching regarding what can happen when you launch yourself into the unknown while claiming
it's a 'god thing'. It's a thing all right.
We have entered into a time of strong delusion.
At last something I can agree with.